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    Houston Fire Museum


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    The Houston Fire Department began as a bucket brigade in 1838, one year after the city incorporated. There is limited history telling of the expansion over the ensuing years to the modern fire department today. What is left of the history, however, is quite colorful, heroic, sometimes humorous, and interspersed with tragedy.

    So much of the fire department's history has been lost. A series of events took its toll on the records of the past: 1) city records were destroyed by Union troops who occupied the city after the Civil War; 2) two devastating fires destroyed the city offices in Market Square; and 3) a fire razed the central fire station in 1904. Part of the problem could have been a lack of appreciation for the past by many of the early fire chiefs.

    Featured Exhibits at the Houston Fire Museum include "Remember 9/11" (See a piece of structural steel from the Twin Towers), The Hopkins Collection (A prized collection of eighteenth- to twentieth-century fire service artifacts), and The Locker Room.


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