Detroit Fire Department History – March 5

Today in DFD history – March 5, 1778

The first fire apparatus was imported from London.  It was a crude hand pump that had to be filled with water from buckets  It was operated by 12 soldiers, as Detroit was still a Fort at the time.

 

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