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  • Category: WFRS Apparatus Histories

      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 17 Jun, 2016

      Old Engine 6’s Last Run

      Old soldiers never die, it is said. But sadly — just like all worn-out passenger cars and trucks – most old fire engines are eventually hauled off to the junkyard.[…]

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      Windsor First Motor Pumper - 1914 Seagrave.
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 15 Apr, 2014

      100 Years of Motorized Apparatus

      An important historical milestone was passed in mid-April, 2014. It was exactly 100 years ago that the Windsor Fire Department placed into service its very first piece of motorized fire[…]

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    • Under Repair in WFD Shops: Mechanics Dave Wedow and Mike Koehl.
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 13 Mar, 2014

      Rebuilding Engine No. 5

      On August 31, 1963, the Windsor Fire Department’s Engine No. 5 – a 1952 Bickle-Seagrave 1050 gpm pumper  – was extensively damaged in a collision with an automobile at the[…]

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      The 2001 Luverne/Spartan Squad at WFRS Headquarters.
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 6 Dec, 2013

      The Luverne Rescue Squad

      It’s a long way from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to Canada’s southernmost city, but one of the more interesting rigs to see service with the Windsor Fire & Rescue Service made[…]

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    • The Cafs Pumper
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 18 Oct, 2013

      The Cafs Pumper

      In late 1995, Windsor Fire & Rescue Services took delivery of a new triple combination pumper with a difference. Built by Carl Thibault Ltd. of Drummondville, Quebec on a Spartan[…]

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      Thibault
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 6 Sep, 2013

      Back to Red: 1993 Carl Thibault Pumper

      In November, 1974, the Windsor Fire Department took delivery of its first lime-yellow rig – a 1050 IGPM pumper built by King-Seagrave Ltd of Woodstock, Ontario on a tilt-cab Ford[…]

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    • 2000 Sausbury/Spartan ESU
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 24 Jul, 2013

      The Saulsbury E.S.U.

      During the summer of 2000, the Windsor Fire & Rescue Service took delivery of three new pieces of apparatus built by a well-known American fire apparatus manufacturer – Saulsbury Fire[…]

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      Orion Incident Command Centre
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 7 May, 2013

      Windsor’s Mobile Command Posts

      In the good old days, it wasn’t hard to find the Chief Engineer on the fireground — he was the commanding figure in the white helmet and coat, barking orders[…]

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    • Horse Hose
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 25 May, 2012

      Windsor’s Early Hose Wagons

      For more than 200 years, hose – that highly portable, flexible means of getting water onto the fire – has been the most important basic tool in the firefighter’s arsenal[…]

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      Magic Wagon
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 5 Mar, 2012

      Thinking Small: The W.F.D.’S Magic Wagon

      In November 1983, Chrysler Canada Ltd. launched production of a revolutionary new kind of passenger vehicle in its Windsor Assembly Plant. The first vehicles of their kind built in North[…]

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    • W.E. Seagrave Motor Combination
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 24 Jan, 2012

      Horses Versus Horsepower: 1911 Contest Pits Motor Fire Apparatus Against Horse-Drawn Rig

      Just over 100 years ago, the Windsor Fire Department participated in an epochal contest that pitted a horse-drawn fire wagon against a fast- emerging rival — one of the new-fangled[…]

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      WINDSOR'S FIRST LADDER TRUCK
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 7 Dec, 2011

      Windsor’s First Ladder Truck

      When Windsor was incorporated in 1854, most of the buildings in the bustling little town on the Canadian shore of the Detroit River were no more than one or two[…]

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    • One of the two 1913 W.E. Seagrave Combinations.
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 26 Oct, 2011

      Walkerville Motorizes

      Swallowed up by the City of Windsor in the 1935 municipal amalgamation that also absorbed the former communities of Sandwich and East Windsor, the thriving, affluent Town of Walkerville was[…]

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      W.F.D. HEADQUARTERS, 1939
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 15 Sep, 2011

      W.F.D. Headquarters, 1939

      Sometime in late May of 1939, a photographer – his name lost to time — climbed to the roof of the bustling Windsor City Market on Pitt St. E. Looking[…]

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    • 1980 Dodge St. Regis
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 10 Aug, 2011

      The Chief’s Buggy, Part 2

      As noted in Part 1, the Windsor Fire Department purchased its first station wagon in 1961. The steel-bodied, four-door 1961 Chevrolet wagon was much more versatile than a conventional coupe[…]

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      Chief Clarence DeFields
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 24 Jun, 2011

      The Chief’s Buggy

      Ever since horses replaced manpower to pull fire apparatus, the Chief Engineer – or Fire Chief in today’s vernacular — has traditionally sped to fires in his own special vehicle.[…]

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    • The Suburbs - Riverside's Rigs
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 16 May, 2011

      The Suburbs – Riverside’s Rigs

      In its half-century of existence the Riverside Fire Department utilized just four pieces of motor fire apparatus. The small volunteer fire department’s first motorized fire truck was a 1924 Ford[…]

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      W.F.D. “Television Stars” !
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 1 Apr, 2011

      W.F.D. “Television Stars” !

      Windsor’s first television station – CKLW-TV – took to the airwaves in the fall of 1954. For many years Channel 9’s tall red-and-white-painted transmission tower behind the new TV station[…]

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    • 1916 Menard City Service Ladder Truck
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 4 Mar, 2011

      Windsor’s Four Menards

      Well-known Windsor wagon maker Moise L. Menard began production of an automobile bearing his own name in 1908. Two years later Menard switched exclusively to truck production in his small[…]

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      Fireboat
      • in WFRS Apparatus Histories
      • — 6 Jan, 2011

      Marine 1: Windsor’s Fireboat

      With an extensive, heavily built up Detroit River shoreline, Windsor has, for more than a century, relied on neighboring Detroit when a fireboat was needed to battle a major waterfront[…]

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