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Rookie Class
pictures
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All Dallas firefighters are
represented in the Museum with their rookie class picture. Find
friends, relatives, or acquaintances while they were in Recruit
school and compare them to how you remember them now. |
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Picture of 1924
Americal LaFrance |
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Children and adults alike fantasize
about what it was like in the bygone era of firefighting and pretend
that they are on their way to the fire. This Engine was originally
assigned to Fire Station # 24 at Poplar and Waldron. |
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Picture of FDNY
Collage |
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September 11, 2001 affected people
throughout this nation. The school children of Dallas where no
exception. They created this collage to express their feelings after
the terrorist attack in New York and Washington, D.C. This work hung in the DISD
Administration Offices before it was donated to the Dallas
Firefighters Museum. |
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Picture of “Joker
System” and In & Out board |
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In 1926 a punch-tape system
was installed in the Fair Park Fire Station to alert the companies
to fires. This system was a Gamewell “Joker System”. The system
could not identify company numbers that ended in “0”, so several
station had to be renumbered. The Fair Park Fire Station became
known as Station # 5 and the old “In & Out” boards that kept up with
the companies status were discontinued. |
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Picture of “Old
Tige” |
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“Old Tige” was purchased by
the City of Dallas in 1884 and was named for Mayor W.L. Cabell. It
was a 600 GPM pumper and served the growing downtown area. In 1911
the fire department shops rebuilt “Old Tige” and she was reassigned
to Station # 6 at Forest Ave. and the railroad (now Central Exwy.).
“Old Tiger” served the City of Dallas until 1921. |
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Picture of a
child’s drawing |
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About 50% of our visitors are
children. This is one example of their rendition of their trip to
the Dallas Firefighters Museum. |
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