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Firehouse Museum
Walk through San Diego's Firehouse Museum bay doors, and
discover a shiny red-and-white world of San Diego's firefighting past.
Founded in 1962, the Firehouse Museum occupies the former home of San Diego
Fire Station No. 6. The museum's brick-and-mortar building in Little Italy
features all manner of fire-fighting gear imaginable and pays tribute to
fire marshals, chiefs, deputy chiefs, alarm dispatchers and battalions
who have answered the call of duty.
Run a hand along a smooth panel of the 1841 Rumsey &
Company Piano Box Hand Pumper, which was retired during the Civil War,
or the 1928 Seagrave Pumper, equipped with front-fender holes for "blackout
lights" used on the streets of La Jolla during WWII. And travel back to
a time when charging horses pulled steaming carts down rutted dirt streets.
Curiosity seekers will find antiquated oddities such as wooden water pipes
to a watch desk system (1915-1971),
9/11 Tribute
New additions to the museum include memorabilia
brought back by local firefighters who worked the World Trade Center sites
following the September 11 bombings. As the museum's sign-in book verifies,
fire fighting is an international charge. The names and cities – domestic
and international – of recent visitors to this easy-to-miss museum reinforce
the credo, once a firefighter, always a firefighter. Visitors from Florida
to Illinois and Vancouver to London come to visit this converted firehouse
and machine shop.
The museum is run by a volunteer staff of firefighters,
emergency medical technicians and hopeful new recruits.
1572 Columbia street
San Diego
tel: 619 232-3473
www.sandiegofirehousemuseum.com/
 
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