Former East Windsor ladder truck, 1924 American-LaFrance, in service as Windsor's Ladder 3, 1939 Former Sandwich Engine 1 - 1930 Bickle pumper - running as Engine...
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Windsor's first Rosenbauer - Engine 1, delivered in 2003 Engine 4 - one of two 2007 Rosenbauer/Spartans placed in service in 2008 Engine 7 - one...
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Truck 6's Sutphen 95' Aerial Tower was the first placed into service Engine 3's Sutphen 70' Min-Tower Vern Harvey photographed Windsor's new Sutphen Towers on waterfront...
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Last straight aerial purchased: 1982 Pierreville/Spartan 100' First modern metal hydraulic aerial: 1949 Pirsch 100' Windsor's First Aerial: Horse-Drawn 1910 Seagrave 85' One hundred years ago,...
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The introduction of the first successful steam fire engine in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1852 revolutionized firefighting in North America, precipitating as it did the replacement of…
Training Pumper #45: 1953 Marsh/International Windsor’s Civil Defense Pumper In the early 1950s – at the height of the Cold War scare – the Canadian federal...
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Sandwich West Sandwich West As noted in an earlier article, following the January 1, 1966 annexation of the former Town of Riverside and a portion of...
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East Windsor Fire Department, 1926: 1920 Ford "T" Chief's Car; 1922 LaFrance Pumper and 1924 LaFrance Ladder Truck Windsor's Fire Station No. 3, Turner Rd., in...
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Following the annexation by Windsor of Riverside and a portion of Sandwich West Township on January 1, 1966 the Windsor Fire Department acquired half a dozen…
In one of our very first articles in this series, we chronicled the remarkable, continuing history of a Gotfredson-Bickle pumper delivered to the Walkerville Fire Department…