Cincinnati’s first steam-powered fire engine exploded during a public demonstration, killing the operator. It made national news when Cincinnati’s first steam-powered fire engine, the Uncle Joe Ross, ...

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Present a full board. COMMUNICATIONS were received from residents of Harlem and property holders, with one hundred names attached, asking that the steam fire-engine located there be not removed.

To the Editor of the New-York Times: I see by your paper of last Friday that there was no bid for the building of a steam fire-engine for Hose Company No. 5. I believe the reasons are, that the ...

In 1871, Chambersburg Fire Department added a steam fire engine to its roster of fire apparatus. This piece of equipment was purchased for the Friendship Engine and Hose Co. No. 1 by Col.

A steam fire engine was purchased in 1861 ... Around 3 a.m. on Jan. 10, 1883, an elevator operator noticed smoke coming up the elevator shaft. Fire spread quickly through the building, and ...

West Coast Railways (WCR), the steam train’s operator, said when there was a high risk of fire, the company reserved ... We will reintroduce the steam engine when the weather is more appropriate ...

This called for a new means of propelling pumps: engines. The first self-propelled, steam-powered fire engine came to be in the U.S. in 1841, and it was built in New York. Strangely enough ...