Document Type
Image
Preview
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.
Recommended Citation
"Cle Elum Fire Hall" (1915). Ellensburg History Photographs. 270.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/ellensburg_history/270
Source
Local History Collection Photographs, Ellensburg Public Library
Format
image/jpg
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.)