Daily Archives January 8, 2015
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STRUCTURE FIRE – SINGLE FAMILY
January 8, 2015 Calls
- 1/8 - 12:07 #001259 HOUSE FIRE 19022 NATIONAL HWY NW BOX:F1603 DUE:E162 T18 SQ18 E171 A364Continue Reading
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SERVICE CALL
January 8, 2015 Calls
- 1/8 - 09:49 #001234 SERVICE CALL NOT LISTED 16 DOGWOOD CIR BOX:F1601 DUE:E162Continue Reading
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On this day in Frostburg/FFD History
January 8, 2015 Events
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A reprint from the Mining Journal - Saturday, January 7, 1893
FIRE
A portion of Mrs. Amanda Folk’s house, Maple street, was burned Wednesday night about 11½ o’clock owing to the distance from the fire department’s headquarters some delay in sounding the alarm was occasioned. Meanwhile the fir gained headway. It was a bad, cold night, but the laddies got there in force with all their apparatus.
The first blast from the nozzle showed that the new water system was master of the situation and soon the fire was completely extinguished. The fire almost instantly collapsed when the strong head of the new water system fell upon it. The hydrant is one of the new ones too, and located just right. The firemen say that “the pressure knocks an ordinary blaze crazy in less
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