Leominster firefighting
By: Roger H. LaPointe
Series: Images of America; Images of America
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780738572093
Subjects: Fire departments; Fire fighters
Description: Chronicles everything Leominster Fire -- it goes from the days of an all-call force to the building of the current headquarters in 1898; equipment modernization from horse-drawn apparatus to the first trucks, and photos of notable firefighters throughout. Includes details and photos of the city's biggest fires -- the great fire of 1873 that took out much of the area from Pleasant to Adams Streets and a blaze in 1954 from an explosion on Central Street that took out seven buildings--