RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – More than 100 children and parents showed up at the Rancho Santa Margarita Library Saturday to take photos of a vintage horse-drawn fire truck from the early 20th century.
Before there were fire trucks, there were horses. Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the last time a horse-drawn steam fire apparatus responded to a fire within the District. To recognize the day, ...
Charlie Dent’s collection never would have been exiled to the Island of Misfit Toys. The detailed and colorful cast-iron vehicles, forged by his family’s storied Dent Hardware Co. in the early 20th ...
Some things just naturally go together, and for more than a century, dogs and fire stations were two of those things. Today, not so much. The tradition goes back to the days of horse-drawn fire ...
The fire protection in Chambersburg during the early years was the bucket brigade formed by the citizens of town. The first fire company organized in Chambersburg was in 1780, and at this time the ...