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#5 19th Ave. & 8th Street. 20 gal. chemical tank.

#4 - 1st & Broadway - Frank Covalt, John Bates, John Olsen, John McGill, Chas. Watts, J.N. Cochran and Marion Stevens

#2 - 27th & Broadway - Opened 1942 Closed 1966

Council Bluffs Fire Department Snorkel 22 at Fire Station #2

Photograph of Council Bluffs Fire Station #2

Fire Station

Painting the fire plugs in the Hoover School area Wednesday are Lori Ferris, Greg Spence, Laura Plummer and about 50 of their summer school classmates.
Other groups will paint plugs in a Bicentennial theme along Broadway, Main and Pearl streets…

Photographs of unidentified fires in Council Bluffs.

Photograph of an unknown building fire.

Photograph of fire on 500 Block West Broadway. Shows horse drawn fire carts and many spectators.

Summer of 1888 in front of Station #4 109 W. Broadway

A photograph of the Council Bluffs Fire Department fighting a fire.

Bruce Nelson, 9, displays firemen's helmet tags to be given to Muscular Dystrophy drive donors by local firemen Monday. Capt. O.K. Oamek, head of Firefighters Local 15, shows the real firemen's headgear. Bruce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nelson, 3106…

Rescue units from Macedonia also service Carson and Henderson areas. Examining apparatus for broken bones are Herman DeWitt, a fireman called the "first aid chief" by his coworkers, Dale Hobson, acting of the volunteer fire department, and Lawrence…

Three unlabeled photographs of fires and firefighters.

The old Dohany Theater, scene of some of Council Bluffs' most brilliant gatherings in the past was damaged by fire late Saturday night. The fire damaged the stage of the theater which is still in much the same condition it was when the theater was in…

An early morning blaze Thursday wiped out Fairmount Park Lodge at Fairmount Park. Officials closed the roads leading to the place and posted it against trespassing following the fire. City recreation officials, who handle reservations for the lodge,…

Charred Batteries...in the foreground held some 6,000 live chickens which were destroyed in the Blue Star fire at Atlantic. Company officials termed the plant a "total loss."

Engineer Glen Hasler of the Council Bluffs Fire Department unloads the hoses as Fire Chief Norman Elgan directs during one of the daily training sessions.

Photographs of Council Bluffs firefighters collecting money for the Salvation Army.
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