Firefighting (20 results)

Condition: Very Good. Original document. Shows men aboard a steam-powered fire engine being pulled by a team of horses, embossed image and title. Made in Germany. The verso is a divided back addressed to a Miss G. Hodge, with the message "E.J. Mulligan / Regards to All." 3.5" x 5.5".

4to. 144 pp. With 100's of colour and black & white photo illustrations, text illustrations, maps. Green simulated calf boards, embossed and illustrated front cover of early fire engine and silhouette of Mt. Hood in gilt, silver, red & black (slight bumping head of spine, shelfwear), still NF copy, from library of former Portland firefighter Frank Payne, Engine 1. First edition of this yearbook of the Portland Fire Bureau, detailing changes in the department since 1983, fires fought in the 1980's - early 1990's and along with changes in Engine companies, fire equipment, and personnel. …

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue leatherette covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and front panel. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 191 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light rubs and creases. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'Best Wishes Ronald Cox'. Loosely inserted book advertisement from the publishers. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0947665005 FIREMEN & FIRE SERVICE.…

Black and white photograph of the Kent, Washington Fire Department posing on their firetrucks. The Kent Volunteer Fire Department was formally established in 1912, though it existed informally as early as 1892.This photo is dated around 1925 as it features the Howard-Cooper pumper they acquired that year after passing a $5,000 bond. Photograph taken by Lloyd W. Clark of Clark's Photo Studio, also in Kent. 8" x 10". Tape repair to top right corner, other small tears and creases, glue residue on back, good/very good.…

12mo. [4 pp (unpaginated)]. With printed dances, and all blanks filled out in pencil with the dance partner names. Embossed & raised colour chromolithograph cover art showing firefighters saving children from burning building, and running to the fire (minor dustsoiling, shelfwear), still VG- copy, sewn with red silk braid at spine. First edition of this very scarce dance card with beautifully done chromolithography for the Red Bluff, California Annual Ball. These Balls were originally organized in 1879 by the Volunteer Confidence Engine Company No. 1 as fundraisers for firefighters benefits, survivor benefits, and the community. By the early 20th century, they were the event to attend, and often included lavish entertainment, dance cards, and programs. Confidence Engine Co. No. 1 in 1905 is remembered for having stuffed the election ballot box in 1905 under the direction of ward leader Frank Rhoads, against a slate backed by Newton Booth. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Willis, History of Sacramento County (1913), pp. 242-243. …

4to. 35, [1] pp. Over 100 text illustrations & photos. Colour-illustrated softcovers in red, black & white (slight creasing, very light interior toning), still VG copy. First edition of this very scarce catalogue offering firefighting, police, and municipal equipment for sale, allowing small towns across America to order anything from a fire hydrant to Smith & Wesson .38 Caliber police pistol, a Braided Leather Sap to a Ford Champion fire engine with Type MF500 Midship Pumps. In addition the company supplied wireless pipe locators, rubber waders for water workers, traffic signals, badges, and fire sirens.…

Paperback. First edition. Original staplebound pictorial wrappers, 6.75 x 10.75 inches, 32 pp. Illustrations from black and white photographs, many illustrated advertisements. Scarce program for the annual outing of the Veteran FIremen's Association of San Francisco. Contents include advertisments for automobiles, clothing, farm equipment, food, etc. Many reproductions (most by Bushnell Photo Co.) of portraits of Fire Association officers, fire stations, fire boats, etc. Not found on OCLC/Worldcat. Some toning and wear to covers, internally very good and overall quite presentable.…

Thick 4to. xvi, 560, [1] pp. Colour-illustrated title, 1st half printed on cream-coloured tinted paper, w/ photo illustrations, 2nd half w/ 100's of photos, maps (1 in colour), engine companies and support personnel. Embossed textured burgundy-coloured publisher's cloth, cover art in silver, raised embossed LAFD firefighter badges, John H. Horn stamped on front cover, who was LAFD retired (slight shelfwear, slight rubbing), still VG bright copy. First edition of this lavishly illustrated souvenir Centennial Edition volume published as fundraiser by the Los Angeles Firemen's Association in 1986, and featuring a well-written, well-balanced, and well-documented history of all the LAFD achievements, from Fire Station Company 1 opened Feb. 1, 1886 to the Leo Bortz oil blaze in 1986. The work incorporates many of the major fires, and conflagrations to strike Los Angeles as the city grew from the 19th- into the 20th-Century, including the demolition and fire in LA Chinatown, transition from horse-drawn fire engines to motorized, the 1961 Bel Air-Brentwood blaze which leveled large sections of the West side of Los Angeles, and destroyed 100's of structures, as well as the Watts Riots with fire crews fighting over 200 blazes, many out of control, and while under sniper fire.…

Tall 4to. 304 pp. Illustrated title, 100s of photo illustrations, illustrated ads, text illustrations. Red publisher's cloth, gilt decoration & lettering on front cover, marbled endpapers (inner hinges expertly repaired, minor edgewear, scuffing to a couple corners), still a VG copy. First edition of this scarce and wonderfully illustrated early history of the City of Portland, Oregon Fire Department. This was published as a fund raiser for the Firemen's Relief Fund the same year as the Lewis & Clark Exposition, and is filled with excellent detailed illustrated advertisements for businesses and institutions in and around Portland, as well as 100s of photos of the Portland Fire Commissioners, Engineers, Battalion Chiefs, Engine Companies and Truck Companies in Districts 1, 2 and No. 3 on the East Side of the Willamette River. In addition, there are photos of the Fire Engines, Fire Boat, the christening of the Fire Boat, and even the Lewis & Clark Exposition Fire House, the fire alarm switch board, as well as many images of horse-drawn fire engines and hook & ladder engines. There are views and photos included of the Portland Lumber Company, Washington Street in Downtown Portland East of Third Street with trolleys and early automobiles driving down the road, the historic Dekum Office Building, the Steel Bridge Saloon owned by Louis Heinrich, the Imperial Hotel, Erickson's Cafe and Concert Hall, St. Vincent's Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, advertising displays for the Portland Millinery Store, and even the Meier & Frank Department Store. Of particular interest is the half-page biography and history for Dr. Wing Lee, educated in China, and recognized at the time as the leading Chinese physician on the West Coast.…

Two pieces. [8; 8 (unpaginated).] Both with photo-printed covers, photo cover art of horse-drawn fire engines, each w/ their Waltham Engine companies, punch sewn at gutter margins w/ blue & gold silk braid respectively, each w/ small souvenir pencil for writing on the dance card still attached (minor edgewear, light rubbing), still VG set, from the library of Lewis Corbin Button, Jr. (1887-1956), former toy maker and sign painters, whose father Lewis C. Button (1848-1906) was a carriage and wagon painter. First editions, thus, of these charming dance card programs for the Waltham Firemen's Relief Assoc., originally organized in Dec., 1886 to pay out benefits to sick and disabled firemen injured in the line of duty. Entertainment often included Vaudeville acts, silent movies, glass lantern slide shows, and even hose coupling contests.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 90 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 90 Volume 1995/1996 Language: English.…

Condition: Overall good plus. A collection of forty-nine photographs of the Los Angeles Fire Department, likely from the 1970s. The photographs were taken by Joe Ortiz, the first Mexican American with an English-language radio talk show; R.L. Oliver, known for his photographs of the Watts Riots; and Ken Papaleo, who would win Pulitzers for his coverage of the Columbine shooting and the 2003 Colorado wildfires. The photographs are action shots, showing fires and car wreck scenes. Many of the fire shots were taken from afar, though in some the photographer was positioned quite near the firefighters. For instance, several shots show a group of at least four firefighters with a dalmation hosing the exterior of a low industrial building. Though some shots mainly show the fire, in others the firefighting apparatus is visible, helping to date and locate the shots. In one, a Crown firecoach is parked at the bottom of an embankment while firefighters spray down a residential building standing at the top; according to the LA County Fire Museum, the Crown apparatus began to be phased out of the arsenal in 1977 in favor of designs with enclosed cabs. In another, engines 4 and 11 are parked outside of a smoking apartment building, locating the photograph in the downtown LA area. The car wreck shots are generally taken from much closer to the scene, with graphic depictions of the wreckage and victims. The sole color shot in the collection shows EMTs and firefighters converging on a white car with its hood destroyed; the driver has been placed in a neck brace. In another wreck shot, a man lays on the ground behind his motorcycle as EMTs arrive with an extraction board and gurney. EMS is a surprisingly new innovation, dating only to the 1960s and 1970s; LA's first paramedic services were created in 1969 with cardiologist Walter S. Graf's pilot "mobile critical care unit" program.[1] In fact, a new law, the Wedworth-Townsend Paramedic Act, had to be enacted to allow medical care at the scene and in transit, as doing so was legally fraught. The Los Angeles areathough the county, not the citywas at the forefront of the development and popularization of paramedic services, including via the TV series Emergency!, which depicted the work of paramedics with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.[2] Of interest to historians of firefighting and emergency response, especially the development of emergency medical services. [1] "Doctor who helped launch modern paramedic system dies at 98," CBS News, October 30, 2015. [2] Paul Bergman, "EMERGENCY!: Send a TV Show to Rescue Paramedic Services!", University of Baltimore Law Review, 36, no. 3 (Spring 2007): 347369. Forty-nine photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches with some larger, most with photographers' stamps verso. Most seem to have been previously affixed to a surface and torn off; some tears and residue intersect with subject. Some with water damage.…

15pp. 16mo. First Edition. First Edition. 15pp. 16mo. Not in OCLC nor AI Contemporary marbled wrappers. Fine.

11pp. 12mo (6-1/4 x 4 inches). 11pp. 12mo (6-1/4 x 4 inches). Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 was established during British rule, on July 10, 1772. After many of its volunteer members marched off to fight in the Revolution, it was reorganized in 1784 and given the name "Mutual Hook & Ladder No. 1." It was Mutual Hook & Ladder No. 1's foreman who designed the fireman's helmet with the high crown and broad rear brim in the late 1820s. It is still used today with some variations. Not in OCLC, nor in American Imprints Stitched in contemporary marbled wrappers. Fine.…

Condition: Overall excellent. Offered here is a collection of letters and art sent from people incarcerated in the California State Prison system, primarily from a husband ("P.") and wife ("A.") to P's mother and stepfather. A., who served a shorter sentence than P., worked as an inmate-firefighter. Currently, about twenty to thirty percent of California's firefighters are incarcerated people, and about ten percent of those are women; they work cutting the fireline, receiving little compensation and at a significantly higher risk of injury than both their non-incarcerated counterparts and other prison laborers. They also are not eligible to become firefighters upon release, due to California's laws about both employment and EMT certification following a felony conviction.[1] A. writes of her training: "I've been training for camp. Its realy realy hard. This has got to be the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Well Im gonna make this my last trip to prison well, I hope so anyway." (January 12, 2009) She also writes from the field that "Its very hard and dangerouse but I guess Im used to it" (June 6, 2009), with later letters giving more detailed descriptions; for instance: "Im not in San Diego right now because my crew and my cousins crew got sent to all the fires that are up North =) we left on the 4th and we've been on the road and to a couple of fires since I don't know when we are going back but Im making money! yesterday I worked a 24 hour shift and we got back to have our down time to rest this morning. Its very tireing and hard I felt like I was hiking forever! Right know Im up in Shasta County its beautif up here and I've never been this far from home befor." (August 14, 2009) A. wanted to save up to buy a car. She wrote that firefighting is "hard work for a dollar a day" (December 14, 2009)in 2023, the inmate-firefighter pay rate was raised to an astounding 16 to 74 cents per hour with a maximum daily rate of $5.80 to $10.24.[2] P., on a longer sentence in various higher-security facilities, grappled with boredom, loneliness, and the bureaucracy involved in trying to contact his wife and family. The prisons where he was incarcerated were frequently on lockdown for months at a time, including the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, which locked down in June of 2009 following a gang-related riot. He often describes being hungry and not allowed to go to the commissary, either because of lockdowns or just because "there not letting Hispanics go" (January 30, 2011). One way he seemed to have dealt with his circumstances was through art. Over time, his package requestsincarcerees can only be sent packages through approved third-party vendors, which contract with prisonsincluded, alongside toothpaste and deodorant, art supplies and even a typewriter and books on "how to properly write a novel" (January 30, 2011). He mentions copying drawings, and the reader can see him experiment with different handwriting styles in the letters and on envelopes. The art in the collection includes greeting cards with teddy bear, clowna common character in Chicano artand nature motifs; a Las Vegas Raiders butterfly (signed "E", most likely by P.'s cellmate Ernie, for whom drawing is a "little hustle to make money for food and supplies" (January 30)); and a pair of beaded earrings that P. bought for $10 "to some Indian here" (August 25, 2010). Of interest to scholars of outsider art and incarceration in the California prison system. [1] Carly Tolin, "Fighting More Than Fires: California's Inmate Firefighting System Needs Reform," The Georgetown Environmental Law Review, February 6, 2025. [2] Doug Melville, "Inmates Can Make Up Nearly A Third Of Those Fighting California Fires," Forbes, January 9, 2025. Eighty letters, ten artworks, and two photographs. Anonymized for writers' and their families' privacy, with more information available on request. …

Two vols. Oblong 4to. 13 x 10 in. [(4 pp - type-written table of contents), 44; 44 pp (unpaginated)], on thick gray paper stock. Vol. I w/ 53 photos ranging in size from 2.5 x 4 in. up to 8 x 10.5 in., most of them with tipped-in typed-captions below, some with commercial photographers stamps at lower right corner, a few mounted, most on glossy photo paper stock (w/ 6 photos removed); Vol. II w/ 22 photos ranging in size from 4.5 x 7 up to 9.5 x 11.75 in., some w/ stamps at upper corner, most on glossy photo paper stock. Uniformly bound in padded pigskin post binders, vellum sewn at fore-edges, bound with tan silk braid at gutter margin (some wear & occasional minor tears to a couple leaves), still a VG- set. These incomparable and unique photo albums include excellent original photographs depicting early firefighting apparatus & fire suppression equipment for Protex fire fighting foam. Founded in 1932 Protex was established to develop, produce, and market a wide range of chemical and biochemical products for manufacturers, primarily using a wide range of subsidiaries. The French subsidiary in St. Denis focused on fire fighting chemical foam which was far more effective in suppressing industrial and chemical fires, especially when installed in factories, or refineries, such as those for alcohol, breweries, oil refineries, and more. The Protex salesman has included images here for large fire extinguisher tanks, nozzles, a fire shield for firefighters to carry, or push forward in fire fighting efforts, many different handcarts that could be pulled or pushed carrying foam tanks and hoses, pipes for pumping the mixture into the air with moveable carts, and much more. Of particular interest are the numerous types of fire engine pumpers for Protex foams, including heavy trucks built by Latil and Laffly. The Latil Company was founded in 1897, and invented steerable front wheel drive for heavy trucks, often employed in their fire engines, and would later produce many armored vehicles and tanks during World War I, and then before World War II. Laffly was one of the largest French manufacturers of fire engines, producing them well into the 1950s. These albums include images of those produced for French Colonies, such as the one for use in Dakar, Senegal, which in the 1930s was still one of the major cities of the French Empire on par with Beirut and Hanoi. These albums also show the special railcars, pumping equipment, and fire suppression systems for liquor factories in Provence, and industrial alcohol factories in Lyon. Many of the photographs were taken by the noted commercial photographers, Paulus Fils. The sons of Paulus were located in Paris in several places from the end of the 19th century up through the 1920s, and by 1925 were at the address stamped in the corner of these images, 82, rue d'Amsterdam. Most records show their images ranged from Wedding photos, to photos of French notables, architecture, and some commercial factories. These images are unrecorded. No copies located in Worldcat.…

First edition. First edition. With one hundred and forty-five illustrations. 575 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt decoration. Spine chipped, corners rubbed, hinges starting. Pp. 211-254 loose but present. Overall Very Good With one hundred and forty-five illustrations. 575 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Condition: Modern marbled boards. First edition. First edition. One Engraved headpiece of house on fire. 1 vols. 8vo. An interesting work for those curious about the history of fire suppression and of applications of chemistry to (mostly urban) living in the 18th century. One Engraved headpiece of house on fire. 1 vols. 8vo.…

[Japan]: at end (in trans.): "copied 1842." Japanese cities have always been plagued by terrible fires. Regarding Edo, "the wooden construction of all of the city and the narrow lanes of commoner quarters made fire a devastating experience, and it came sufficiently frequently to be called 'the flowers of Edo.' Fires were no respecters of status and rank, and when driven by winter winds in the dry season they roared through the city.In the 268 years of Tokugawa rule, the Tosa 'upper' yashiki (at 'Blacksmith Bridge') suffered eighteen fires, and the Shiba middle residence burned twelve times. Four of these were citywide conflagrations. Merchant areas burned thirty-one times in two centuries, and even the shogun's castle suffered major damage seven times."Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan (Harvard: 2000), p. 151. This wonderfully detailed scroll is a record of the Great Meiwa Fire of 1772 in Edo, one of the three most severe fires of the Edo era, with a 30-square-mile section of the city destroyed (including an estimated 178 temples and shrines, 127 daimyo residences, 878 non-official residences, 8705 houses of bannermen, and 628 blocks of merchant dwellings). Almost 15,000 people died, and another 4,000 went missing. The fire was deliberately set by a Buddhist priest of the Daien-ji Temple on the eastern side of the Meguro River. Because of the regularity of such fires, the city of Edo organized 48 brigades of trained firefighters, with each group having a specific name after the old i ro ha alphabet. Our remarkable scroll consists of one enormously long panorama, which can be divided into three sections: the alarm, the actual fire, and the aftermath. In the first long scene, we are clearly in a shopping area, with numerous merchants' stores and warehouses (kura). We see some of the residents and the trained fire brigade men (hikeshi) rushing to the fire. A man on horseback is cantering through the streets, raising the alarm. The firefighters carry tools primarily of the building trades: ropes, saws, mauls, and the tobiguchi, the famous "fireman's hook." Other residents and their servants and staff prepare for the oncoming fire: each residence has a water barrel in front, ready for such an occasion. We see both buke hikeshi ???? (samurai firefighters) and machibikeshi ??? (merchant firefighters). As we proceed to the actual fire, we pass by a tall fire tower, with men at the top observing the fire. A man is reinforcing a kura, supposedly fireproof, with further reinforcements of mud. The following scenes are all action: merchants preparing for the worst, servants removing merchandise, firefighters gathering and organizing their equipment in a staging area, water being drawn from wells, men removing wooden roof shingles, the elderly being carried away, statues being carried from temples, a congested bridge with people fleeing the fire and the firemen struggling to go in the opposite direction, workers in a walled mansion removing valuables, people on roofs removing flying embers, firefighters carrying the portable pump (ry?dosui) known as the "water-spewing dragon," evacuated storefronts, etc. The second long scene shows the firefighters in action: buckets of water being filled, firefighters climbing and descending ladders, men removing embers from roofs, and the conflagration itself, vividly depicted in rich red colors for the fires themselves and gray tones for the considerable smoke. And, then, as we proceed, we see the resulting devastation, with almost nothing surviving. This section is simply horrific. The firemen survey the landscape and go through the area putting out the numerous smaller fires. Government officials gather to assess the damage. We see firemen from different companies in a brawl. The final scene shows the beginnings of the reconstruction of the area. Carpenters have brought in building materials, houses and shops are being rebuilt, merchants have reoccupied their surviving shops and restocked, residents.…