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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2007 14:28:33 GMT -5
25TH STREET SCENE- Columbus Fire Department Tele-Squirt truck aims its spray at smoldering ruins of three businesses destroyed in a pre-dawn explosion and fire at 25th and Home. Hawes Office Supply, Tom Pickett's Music Center and the Beauty Wand were destroyed . Firemen blamed the explosion on a natural gas line break. This fire was January 27, 1982.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2007 15:19:29 GMT -5
ALL GONE _ A burned out, ice-coated drum is the only recognizable object in Tom Pickett's Music Center display window after an explosion and fire this morning destroyed the building which housed the music store and two other businesses. Pickett said he lost several valuable collector's-item records in the blaze.
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Post by nancs on Nov 23, 2007 8:32:14 GMT -5
James Dickey is the father of a life long friend of mine, James K. Dickey. Ralph Owens is the father of two time Mayor, Fred Owens, also the father of past fire chief Donald Owens and also the grandfather of retired firefighter Richard Owens. Mr. Owens is the great- uncle of present firefighter, SGT. Doug Hollenbeck. WHOA!!!!!!!! Year 1920--------and I have to add to George's comments. Yes, likewise, to knowing Mr. Dickey, and son, James K., who was active in Trail Blazers in our youth. Then mention of Fred Owens, another horse connect, knew both Lou Ann and Richard during Trail Blazer days. And I guess now, I see how that Owens family fits together----------Bob Hollenbeck, married Shirley 'Owens' and had a mom and pop market in town, that was discussed in the 'market thread.' They had son, Steve, I believe of 'basketball fame,' and he, too, had the cutest little pony and he and his family and Owens grandparents participated with 'the horsey crowd.' And the Doug is the younger brother? George, or somebody---------------am I close on all of this??? Just amazing, and all from a fire department photo from 1920. Thanks for sharing, George. Nanc
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2007 14:21:20 GMT -5
Nanc.....I believe that I got it all correct, I had a lot of turkey yesterday ;D, if not, I'll hear from Doug. I'll add a little more to the story, when Mr. Dickey and family lived at the corner of Indiana and Gladstone, Mr Dickey had a tire shop back of their house on Indiana Ave, when the city annexed East Columbus he sold his tire shop to the city for a fire station, fire station No.3. I think Mr. Dickey had quit a bit of land there and a lot was pasture for the horses. Richard would know about that, living near by?. After retiring from the fire dept., Richard Owens moved to Florida, I don't know were Lou Ann is located at.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2007 15:38:30 GMT -5
The Memory Still Burns 10 Years Later THE Central Junior High School fire was a nightmare for firefighters. Everything that could go wrong did: • Delays up to 10 minutes in reporting the fire. • Frozen fire hydrants, preventing any water from being poured on the fire for at least 15 minutes . • A second fire, which rekindled about six hours after the initial fire started. The aftermath left 1,200 students out in the cold; about $2.4 million in damage to the school which was built in. the 1880s; and exhausted and chilled an estimated 200 firefighters, police officers and other public safety officials. There was a good side to the disaster. Not one student was injured. Only one firefighter, Capt. Jim Miller, was hurt. He was hospitalized briefly for smoke inhalation. And of the $2.4 million repair bill, the school corporation had to pay only $1000 as its part of the insurance deductible. Central was in the midst of a five year project and the main building, destroyed by the fire, had been renovated in the early phases IN ALL, SIX OF THE CITY'S seven fire trucks were I at the scene, along with Medic 1. Six tankers and one rescue unit from volunteer fire departments were there as well. __ One city engine and two volunteer units remained on standby in case they were needed at other fires in the city or county. None occurred, however. Clyde Marsh, now retired but the battalion chief in charge that day, and Chief Larry McCord, then a captain, remember the fire vividly. So does Doug Hollenbeck, who was off duty that day and had gone to the fire to take photographs for the department. Moments later he found himself standing only a few feet from the blazing auditorium. All three recall the temperature, which had plunged to 8 below zero that morning; the frozen fife hydrants; the slippery conditions caused by water and mist freezing on everything in its path; and the helplessness of watching the school burn without any water to pour on the flames. WHEN FIREFIGHTERS AND EQUIPMENT arrived, they were greeted by thick black smoke billowing from the roof. The fire, they later would learn, started in a wastebasket on the stage of the third floor auditorium. Students, who hadn't had time to retrieve coats or other belongings from lockers, were filing out of the north doors. Most walked quickly, but orderly, west on Pearl Street to the gymnasium. Some onlookers gathered, although the weather kept the crowd down. People were kept back from the scene for fear that the fire might spread to the first floor chemistry lab where some volatile liquids were stored, and that walls of the aged building might collapse. McCord said the initial sight was chilling. "It was just completely out of control when we got there. There was no way of stopping it, even under the best of conditions," he said .. THE FIRE STARTED ABOUT 11:40 a.m., but wasn't discovered for about 10 minutes. At least six minute elapsed from the time it was found until firefighters were dispatched, according to McCord. McCord and Marsh said things might have been different if their department had been called to the scene earlier.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2007 20:23:24 GMT -5
Columbus Fire Department Firefighters Tim Hughs, David Dwyer, Doug Hollenbeck, Matt Ahlbrand and Larry Wolfe, from left, recently graduated with honors from Ivy tech's Fire Science program. The 2 1/2year' classroom and hands-on experience course Included learning about building construction, hazardous materials and strategy and tactics. The firefighters completed the course on their own time. May 1991.
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Post by nancs on Nov 27, 2007 22:18:09 GMT -5
With all the great posts that George contributes to the message boards as to the Columbus Fire Department, etc, thanks, George, I just have to sort of ask, I guess........................ Does anyone else recall, probably after WW II, and when the rationing of gas was lifted, taking an evening drive out in 'the country,' and probably having stopped before leaving town for a Diary Queen cone or better yet, a pineapple milk shake...........................am guessing in the fall of the year, Indian Summer, perhaps, or at least after the hay had been mowed, baled, and stored............ And coming across a barn in flames, out in the country, a ways from town. I can so remember when I learned the terminology--------------bucket brigade. My dad explaining to me about spontaneous combustion, etc. as we approached the fire--------------I can remember my dad leaving Mom and I in the car, out on the gravel road, and him walking up to join, 'the bucket brigade' attempt to douse the fire. I seriously doubt that men passing buckets of water from hand to hand were making a very big impact on the inferno, but..............I do know that they tried. I can so picture that scene in my head, as you could see the men working so hard, as the barn flamed bigger and bigger. In retrospect, I even wonder, where a sufficient number of buckets were acquired to make this a very valid attempt to put out a raging fire. I do know that once our winter supply of hay was stored, in town, in our barn, that my dad made frequent checks to make sure that the bales of hay were NOT 'heating up.' I can only recall one time when we feverishly started moving hay around to prevent a fire in our barn. Nanc
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2007 13:22:31 GMT -5
The Columbus Fire Department takes delivery of a 1992 Spartan-Darley pumper, it replaces a 1967 model. Price of the new pumper is $289,000.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2007 15:52:01 GMT -5
City's largest fires Old Christian Church building at Fifth and Jackson Streets, 1853. Music Hall on Chestnut Street. St. Denis Hotel and Livery Barn, 1894. American Starch Company plant, 1895. Orinoco Tannery, 1906. Bosse Livery Barn, 1909. Thomas Elevator, 1911. Crump block, 1912. Silverman block, 1917. Dunlap & Company, 1924. Emerson-Brantingham Company, 1926. Dunlap & Company, 1938 Fires up to 1941
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Post by RER on Dec 2, 2007 21:57:17 GMT -5
George, I have read and been told several times that the fire in the St. Denis Hotel in 1894 started in the theater on the first floor of the hotel. They built the dome on top of the the hotel after the fire for escape with a side ladder coming down the side facing 5th Street. Later, when Union Trust Company Bank bought most of the building, the dome was removed at some point and the ladder adjusted somewhat. Additionally, the smoke stacks were removed at some point at the top of the building.
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Post by nancs on Dec 3, 2007 8:57:20 GMT -5
Referring back to the discussion of fire horses, on page 12 in the Columbus Fire Department thread------------------- Knowing full well that when I attempt to scan ‘something printed,’ I do a poor job, and Richard has to ‘repair it’ for me. So will save us both some time and just type from my source to share. Some discussion has occurred in recent posts about the Columbus Fire Department and the use of horses. Within the souvenir booklet of ‘City Fire Department of Columbus, Indiana, 1835 – 1941,’ with a publish date of November 30, 1941, and on the Historic Columbus Indiana website’s home page, I found the following information: Fire Horses Eat Their Heads Off
Chief Dahn said, after a careful tabulation of the amount spent for the upkeep of the department during the past year, the city spent $ 600 for horse feed, (NS insert: NO mention of the number of horses involved.) bought one new horse for $ 175, and sold an old one for $ 82.50. This cost, he said, was too high for the taxpayers. He showed that the total runs for the year only gave a mileage of something over 40 miles, and pointed out that a motor vehicle could have covered this distance and been taken care of at an expense of not more than $ 5.00 for the year. ---From The Evening Republican of Jan. 4, 1916. NS comments: At my finger tips I have information for the year 1905 to use as a comparison factor. Average income in 1905 was $ 684. A home cost $ 5,744, a stamp was $ 0.02, a loaf of bread tallied out at $ 0.06 per loaf, and a half gallon of milk at $ 0.12. Hmmmmmmm, and in 2007, frankly I try not to look at grocery store prices, I just pay and scoot on my way, with my needs in hand. On the maintenance of my TWO horses, a little better idea--------------hay expenses would come close to that $ 600 figure, EVERY 3 months for only TWO horses, bear in mind I am in CA, and we are high. Add in grain that I believe these fire horses would be fed, given their required need for stamina---------for one horse, right now, the cost is close to $ 100 per month. Just an interesting way to compare the costs. And just another ‘food for thought’ issue, wonder what the cost of fuel is now to maintain the fire department vehicles in 2007? ? Nanc
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2007 15:43:29 GMT -5
Bob, Nanc....thanks for the info, I was wondering about the theater in the St. Denis, do you know if it occupied all of the first floor of the hotel?. My guess on the total horses the dept. had would be seven at that time, 1916, all of the pictures that I have seen shows five at station No.1 on 5th. St. and two horses at station No.2 at 13th. and Hutchins Ave. The article that Chief Dahn had in the paper was just a short time before the dept. was motorized, that being 1918. Albert Dahn was one of the first members of the dept., and that I was fortunate enough to get to know, he retired in 1957 and was in his 70's at the time. Curly, as he was known by, was born at first and Washington St. on Dec.1 1880. His family had a bakery and saloon on Washington St. on the south side of the ally between 2nd and 3rd. He served as Chief 2 different times. Nanc, I know what you mean by scanning print, I scan it to note pad, then have to straiten it up ;D. I'll find out what the dept. fuel cost is now.
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Dec 3, 2007 17:56:36 GMT -5
Bob, Nanc....thanks for the info, I was wondering about the theater in the St. Denis, do you know if it occupied all of the first floor of the hotel?. According to vol 2 of the Bartholomew County History Book, the theatre in the St Denis Bldg was very upscale and called the "Pallas Theatre". According to that account it burned in a fire earlier than the one in 1894 that started in the livery. The theatre was never rebuilt after that first fire.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2007 20:57:21 GMT -5
Ricky..... thank you for the information. I did not know about the earlier fire. It must have been quit a show place, wonder if there are any pictures of the interior around.
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ATTERBURY FIRE
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ATTERBURY FIRE
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2007 18:46:33 GMT -5
Manufacturer: Stutz Fire Apparatus Company, at the Overhead Door Company facility in Hartford City, Indiana. Year: Custom-made pumper assembled in 1937. Placed into service with No.1 Company of the Columbus, Indiana Fire Department in 1939 following two years of promotional tours to fire departments in four states. First Diesel Powered Fire Truck In The U.S.: This 1937 Stutz pioneered the long acceptance process of fire truck dieselization in the U.S. Today, over 50 years later, nearly 100% of the pumper and ladder trucks produced, are diesel powered. Engine Power: Cummins model HR-6, in-line, six-cylinder, naturally aspirated 4-cycle diesel rated at 175 horsepower. Pumper Equipment: The pumper is geared for five forward speeds and two reverse. The special Stutz chassis has a 171 inch wheelbase and is capable of pumping a maximum capacity of 1000 gallons per minute. Fully equipped, the pumper has a fire-fighting weight of 18,250 lbs. Originally, it carried 1500 feet of 21/2 inch fire hose, 300 feet of 11/2 inch leader line hose, and 200 feet of 1 inch booster hose. The rotary gear positive displacement pump creates its own vacuum, and is capable of pumping air as well as water. The original 80 gallon booster tank was replaced with a 300 gallon tank in the early 1950's. Cummins Engine Company repowered the truck with an identical HR-6 in 1948 in order to conduct an engineering study on the wear sustained by the engine after nine years of firefighting duty. That engine, still in top running condition, continues to power the Stutz today. Active Service: The Stutz fire truck was officially retired from active service by the Columbus Fire Department on November 4, 1974. It has recently been restored to "like-new" condition as shown in the front photo, a result of the combined efforts of Cummins Engine Company and the Columbus Fire Department. Today, befitting its veteran status, the Stutz makes only ceremonial appearances at shows, parades and occasional fire chief conventions.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2007 19:02:21 GMT -5
Repowered with an identical HR-6 Cummins engine in 1948, that engine remains in top running condition today.
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