Hurontown Fire Department

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Title: Hurontown Fire Department
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Fire Department - Officials and Employees, Persons, Transportation - Automotive
Condition: Good
Description: These Houghton Kindergartners were taken on a tour by the Hurontown Fire Department to show the youngsters the various aspects of fire fighting and its equipment. [The happy children line up for a photo beside the fire engine. (See comments section for more details.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette article May 29, 1958 [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Robert Skuggen
Date of Photo: May 29 1958
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 11.6 cm x 20.2 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-15-04-06
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• Fire truck driver Henry Verran who has been with the unit 20 years is shown here right of center trying a gas mask on little Jimmy Plowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mort Plowe Jr. of Houghton. The tots thought the exhibition and trip a thrill and came home well versed in the work and hazards of a fireman. A large reinforced wooden box was built on top of the fire truck by Leonard Shiroda, Asst. fire chief for the protection of the children. They were accompanied by their teachers, Miss Jean Medlyn and Mrs. Marie Garrity. The Houghton Fire Department has made this the seventh annual event of its kind. The truck in the background will shortly be equipped with two-way short wave radio tied in with the Houghton County sheriff's office. This, driver Verran says, will be the only fire truck in the whole U.P. so equipped. The radio will make it possible for the truck to go from one fire to another without returning to its station, and will permit it to be in touch with fire fighters in other areas. [Thursday, May 29, 1958 Daily Mining Gazette article.]
10/16/2007 1:01:40 PM by Christine Holland, Archives