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Millinocket Fire Department

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Presque Isle Fire Department

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Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"When there was a fire in Hallowell, the fire department would make a note on a bugle, which would have all the volunteer firemen go to the fire…"

Historic Hallowell - Volunteer Firefighters and their Fire Clothes

"Fire Department Ladder Wagon, Second Street, Hallowell, 1913Hubbard Free Library Volunteer firefighters are always on call whereas career firemen or…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"It arrived by 8:30 p.m., but it took until 11:00 p.m. for fire personnel to declare the fire ended. In the Times newspaper commemorative interview on…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"… and Shaffer were taken to the morgue as the fire department cleaned up the street. G-men captured Dalhover without a fight."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell's Volunteer Fireman's Budget

"… Sr., an individual partner The Hallowell's Fire Department's budget, volunteer program, and daily functioning have changed over the years."

Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell

"Department awards were awarded to the fire department with the best kept trucks, pumps, or anything along those lines."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"For safety purposes your hospitals and fire departments and places like that had generators, so they were able to stay open and be helpful."

Historic Hallowell - City Marshals

"… lascivious behavior." He also wrote that police equipment was the same as in 1939 with the addition of a patrol car."

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 1 of 3

"Employed fire departments keep their fire fighters all year round. Volunteer fire departments don’t operate the same way."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… boats; more powerful diesel engines; and modern equipment, such as hydraulic pot haulers, GPS, radar, etc., enable the lobster fisherman to reach…"

Historic Hallowell - Communication

"The electrophone was an electronic piece of equipment that was used to produce sound. It was the first system of electronic broadcasting as well."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… by the facilities director for the school department. Luckily, students are no longer required to play a role in the process of keeping the school…"

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"A year later, more people joined the fire department. It was now up to 25 men. When 1954 came, the town had built a two-bay fire station."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"… was severely threatened, in 1957 the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) began a twenty-year process of acquiring the marsh…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 4 of 4

"“Grasses of a Salt Marsh.” Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895. Moulton, Augustus."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"Strong's Fire Department Fires were always (and still are) disastrous and frightening events. John Rounds was an ardent crusader for the organization…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs

"Fire Department, Swan's Island, ca. 1972Swan's Island Historical Society With no larger boat to transport vehicles, for a period of time anyone…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… pride in their purpose by displaying their new equipment and handsome uniforms. Such an event in Portland was recorded by the camera on September…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"All of their best equipment was taken by the flames. While they were doing that, the Brunswick Fire Department was on its way, soon to arrive at…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 3 of 4

"The Blue Hill Volunteer Fire Department, established in 1910, used horses to pull its equipment until purchasing its first motorized vehicle in 1929."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… construction dictated a new solid brick tower, equipped with the most modern apparatus. Congress ordered, from France, a cast iron stairway and…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"… one who purchased the property that the Bath Fire Department was built on, which housed the #8 truck and the City of Bath water tanks. James C."