Genealogy Journey's Podcast #19: Firefighting

Photo courtesy of David Ortega (c) 2000

This weekend is National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend. To honor the work done by firefighters, we thought we would talk about firefighting and firefighting history.

Resources

KCET - Calif Has 2 Fire Seasons....
CalFire (General info on firefighting for California)
USA Today - ScienceFair - Why are they called Santa Ana Winds? 

Fire Aviation - Fighting fire from the air (great photos)
Wikipedia - CDF Aviation Management Program
Wikipedia - Helicopter bucket
Wikipedia - Aerial firefighting
Wikipedia - Phos-Check

Midwestern Fires, 1871: 
http://meteorite-identification.com/mwnews/08232004.htm
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-forgotten-fire/
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5897629/october-8-1871-the-night-america-burned
http://www.peshtigofire.info/ 
http://www.peshtigofire.info/impact.htm
http://www.peshtigofire.info/causes.htm
http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/2007/10/remembering-the-great-peshtigo-fire-of-1871.html
http://www.exploringoffthebeatenpath.com/Parks/PeshtigoFire/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Huron_Fire_of_1871
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_Fire

Native American use of fire: https://www.na.fs.fed.us/fire_poster/nativeamer.htm
http://www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp?catid=62&id=43114 

Fire in the colonies:
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/volume7/sept08/firefighting.cfm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Fire_Company
http://www.firehouse.com/news/10527819/firefighting-in-colonial-america

History of fire fighting:
http://www.haverhillfirefightingmuseum.org/history-of-firefighting.php
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gear/reviews/g1442/a-brief-history-of-firefighting/?slide=2 (article by Amanda Green – showing New Amsterdam rattle)
https://www.emergencydispatch.org/articles/historyoffirefighting.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_hose
http://www.afirepro.com/history.html
http://firehistory.weebly.com/the-history-of-hoose-hoase-hause-or-hose.html
http://firehistory.weebly.com/the-history-of-volunteer-firefighting.html 
Dennis Smith’s History of Firefighting in America: 300 Years of Courage. Doubleday, 1980.

Fire engines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Newsham 


---Jean Wilcox Hibben