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Fire Department Answers 641 Alarms; Make 898 Trips With Emergency Unit
Dramatic rescue is made when fireman lowers injured workman from roof of St. Francis Church.
Fire Department Answers 641 Alarms; Makes 898 Trips With Emergency Unit
Fire Prevention is stressed by Asst. Chief Figgins, who solicits aid of Boy Scouts in distributing Safety Posters.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is how the 100 block on West Broadway looked in 1935. At left is the old No. 4 fire barn. Center buildings are garages. At right is a used car lot.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--At least 50 years ago, the No. 22 Fire Station at Twentieth St. and Broadway looked like this. We're not just sure what the occasion was for the decorations, but even the horses and fire wagons were shined up. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--A firehouse scene believed to be at No. 1 station on South Main Street before 1900, finds three typical firefighters playing three handed cribbage. This photo comes from retired fireman Bud Cheyne, 412 Oakland Ave.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--"Big Mary," as the old time horse drawn ladder wagon of the Council Bluffs Fire Department was known among firemen, posed in front of the old Number 4 fire station at First St. and Broadway in 1888.
Today...at the Bryant-Main-Washington intersection
Today...at the Bryant-Main-Washington intersection is the fire department's Central Station. The old bell has been transplanted to the roof of the new building. The old sign lies in the attic. Indian Creek is underground. The Post Office has…
Fire in Council Bluffs
A photograph of the Council Bluffs Fire Department fighting a fire.
Fireman statue
Two photographs of a statue of a firefighter located at the old Central Station - 29 North Main St.
Photograph of the funeral procession for J. L. Moore
A photograph of the funeral procession of J. L. Moore on September 15, 1899.
City Mills and No. 3 Engine House
Photograph of City Mills in Council Bluffs
Tests To Sap Your Strength
Straining Under The Weight . . . as he attempts to pull a 50 foot section of hose to the top of the training tower is Alan Knott, Omaha. Firefighter Mike Mattox stands by.
Centennial Bell At Fire Station
Sprucing up a centennial bell at the Oak Street Fire Station are B Shift members Capt. Jerry Carter, Firefighter Don Owens and Engineer Larry Olson. The bell was cast for the Bluffs Fire Department in 1876 and originally hung in the old Central Fire…
Central Station Inspected By 100
Presenting A Picture . . . of a 1913 world champion racing horse team to be used in the fire station as City Councilman Ron Cleveland looks on is DeVere Watson of Council Bluffs. The horses were named after a former mayor of Council Bluffs, Lou…
Fire Department & Fire Stations File #2 (05-01-74 -)
The statue "The Fireman," was presented to the Fire Department back in the days of the first World War by W.M. Wollman, 606 Oakland Avenue, a retired jeweler. Wollman, a familiar figure at Central Fire Station, was well known for his carving of…
Old Fire Alarm System Rests On Historic Laurels
Alarm's Brain . . . was this copper, brass, glass and white marble beauty known as a repeater. All 40 street fire alarm boxes were monitored through the device. Ticker tape punched out code to correspond to alarm box number.
Old Fire Alarm System Rests On Historic Laurels
Button Box . . . on the right is demonstrated by Asst. Fire Chief Norman Elgan. Disks inserted in the box would cause the other station's gongs, like one on left, to ring out the fire's location.
New Fire Truck
Fire Chief Norman Elgan and Laymon Simmons, representative of Home Fire Equipment Co. of Anderson, Ind., look over the new 1,000 gallon pumper truck delivered Friday to Central Fire Station. The truck will replace an older piece of equipment.…
Chief Plagued By Fire Station Location
The Present . . . Central Fire Station will have to be demolished along with other downtown property located in the Urban Renewal shopping center development. The station is now located where the parking garage will be in the new project.