Thursday Thirteen

During last week's visit to Charleston, SC, we spent a couple of hours in the North Charleston and American LaFrance Fire Museum and Educational Center, which is located near the Tanger Outlets should you ever visit.

The museum and visitors' center opened in 2007 and is housed in a $7 million building constructed by the City of North Charleston. The Fire Museum has more than 20 fully restored fire vehicles, including hand pumper engines that pre-date the 20th century.

Hopefully, I have most of these photos captioned properly.



1886 Silsby Steam Pumper



Not sure what this is, but it's old.



Patches from various fire departments all over the world.



My county's patch. A little blurry. It was dark in the museum and I didn't have my good camera.



My husband's place of employment, before
it became Roanoke-Fire EMS



A showcase of early firefighting helmets.



More helmets.



1857 Button & Blake Hand Pumper




Not sure what this one is, but it is a 1912 apparatus.



1911 "Type 5" double tank combination



1914 "Type 12" pumper



1920 "Type 75" Pump & Hose Car



The early system for fire alarms, which used a ticker-tape type of instrument. This was still in use in Roanoke
when my husband went to work with the fire department over 30 years ago.



1935 "400" Series



1940 "500 Series" Pumper

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