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[Tees & Persse fire Jan 1, 1924]

Publication date: 1924

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Firefighting equipment, Ice, Fires

Language: English

View of a broken ladder wagon covered in ice after the Tees & Persse fire of January 1, 1924 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Notes

Description: View of a broken ladder wagon covered in ice after the Tees & Persse fire of January 1, 1924 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Message: This is the Ladder wagon, used for escape and for taking the hose pipes up to the higher floors. The weight of ice on the pipes broke the ladders and soon buried the wagon. It had to be dug out of a mound of ice.
On Back: Written in ms.: Canada, Winnipeg - Tees & Persse fire Jan 1 1924.