1907- First Volunteer Fire Department

The first fire department was located on the Penn Street city lot next to where the City Building is situated today.  The fire alarms were made with the Follansbee mill whistle.  In 1907, a chemical fire wagon was purchased for $660 from Zanesville, Ohio.  In 1909 the city installed fireplugs.   (See also October 1920, “Duke” City Mascot and Fire Dog).

Photo Below includes firetruck purchased in 1917 & volunteers from left to right Clarence Francis, Harry Brandt, Edw. Rateliffe, Lawrence Chaney, ‘Mascot’ Jack Brandt, William Brandt, James Krick, Jenkin Jones, Charles Petch, Fred Dennis, Theodore Seigfried, Sidney Lake, Oscar Webb, Cecil Bole, John Stephens Sr, Hugh McBane, and George Holland.

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Photos courtesy of Follansbee Library Brooke Co. Div. 

Follansbee Review/ “Some Members of Follansbee Volunteer Fire Dep’t”, Jan 19, 1917, p.5