Olympia Fire Department
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- Dec 14, 1891Olympia's Volunteer Firefighters Warn the City: We Are One Blaze Away From DisasterIn 1891, the city's three fire companies pushed to reorganize as a single department, citing a 25-year-old hand engine, unfurnished sleeping quarters, and waterfront shacks that could turn a small fire into a catastrophe.Olympia, WA
- Dec 15, 1891Olympia’s Firefighters Needed Rubber Suits, Beds—and a PaycheckAn editorial urges the city to equip, house and compensate its firemen, noting that volunteers had spent their own money and lost clothing fighting the steamer Eastern Oregon fire.Olympia, WA
- Jan 13, 1892Olympia's New Council Hands 'Boss' Sickels the Purse StringsThe new city council takes office, gives Boss Sickels the powerful ways-and-means chair, and confronts a railroad-blocked sewer, a fire department asking for more hydrants and alarm boxes, and a thin city treasury.Olympia, WA