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An artist's rendering shows plans for a new tower to hold Rochester's historic bell and clock near the fire station at the intersection of Sixth Street and South Broadway Avenue. Submitted photo 4.
The last fire bell was rung in the Weymouth First Methodist Church Belfry in 1942 at a rental cost of $400 a year. The new electric whistles in Ward Two and Five cost the town $187.91, combined ...
“If it’s restored, it could be used by the school … for an information center, or any number of things,” Williams said. To fund the $25,000 fire bell tower project, the historical society solicited ...
A piece of Leetsdale fire department history has made its way back to the borough. Mary Jane Wasco, daughter of the late fire Chief Charlie Wasco, donated the bell of a 1937 Ahrens-Fox fire truck ...
Feeling helpless after the 2018 Woolsey Fire, Bell Canyon residents in Ventura County bought a whole bunch of gear, and have been training to fight the next fire that comes. No fire yet: The ...
In the early 1900s, fires in Orwigsburg were reported by sounding the 34-inch cast iron bell in the tower atop the firehouse. When its peal echoed across the borough, bells in factories would chime… ...
Parishioner Bob Schaper tells the story of finding the bell in the rubble, which for the last 50 years has chimed at the start of services. It last rang on Sunday, Jan. 5.