Fire bucket
| Description: |
Fire! Quickly, everyone grab the bucket from your home and form a line! Before the use of fire hydrants and engines, communities relied on the help of neighbors to fight fires. When built entirely of wood, towns were at great risk for fire. This bucket has the owner’s name on it, Penhaller, as well as the date 1836. After the fire, buckets were left in a pile and the owner found his or her bucket and carried it home. |
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| Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/tcm/id/1530 |
| Collection: |
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis |
| Rights: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/; |
| Copyright: |
Creative Commons (CC By-SA 3.0); |
| Subjects: |
Fire extinction -- Equipment and supplies Pails 19th century |
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