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Creation Date

1915

Description

Though these firemen posed proudly before a parade in the years around 1910, their hand-drawn and pumped hose cart was almost useless against a major wind-driven blaze, conclusively proven in 1918. The department acquired its first truck, a used Maxwell, in 1923.

Source

Local History Collection Photographs, Ellensburg Public Library

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Keywords

Kittitas County (Wash.) - Streets, Historic, Historic streets - Washington (State) - Cle Elum, Streets -- Washington (State) -- Cle Elum, Fire fighters -- Washington (State) -- Cle Elum, Fire Hall (Cle Elum, Wash.)

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