Apparatus Room at Fire Station No. 8, 2211 Fairfield Ave., Firemen on hose wagon and standing around the brass sliding pole. On right behind the steamer is a Smith oil heater that was used to keep the water in the boiler of the steamer just below the boiling point at all times when the steamer was in the station. Date 1901.

Contributor(s): Weber, Donald Allen
Source: http://cdm15155.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/coll3/id/457
Collection: Fire Fighter Photographs
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Geography: Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana
Subjects: Fire fighters--Indiana--Fort Wayne.

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