Girl Scouts Operation Fire Prevention for Fire Prevention Week 1950
| Description: |
Operation Fire Prevention. Six intermediate Girl Scouts, a Red Feather Agency, and two members of the Fort Wayne Fire Prevention Bureau, Inspector Ralph Fredricks, left, and Lt. Edward Johnson, are shown above preparing the 60,000 pieces of fire prevention literature that will be handed to the housewives of the 30,000 dwellings in Fort Wayne. The project, manned by Girl Scouts and aided by the Anthony Wayne Bank, will get under-way this morning and continue throughout Fire Prevention Week, October 8 to 14, 1950. Photo is from a Fire Prevention Book made in 1950. |
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| Contributor(s): |
Weber, Donald Allen |
| Source: |
http://contentdm.acpl.lib.in.us/cdm/ref/collection/coll3/id/5177 |
| Collection: |
Fire Fighter Photographs |
| Copyright: |
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| Geography: |
Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana |
| Subjects: |
Fire fighters--Indiana--Fort Wayne. |
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