A wooden device used by colonial firefighters to assist in disassembling the bed to salvage it from a burning home.
What is a bed key?
100
The type of finial used on the top of the bell on American laFrance fire apparatus made in Canada instead of the eagle
What is a beaver
100
During WWII, where id the biggest fire occur?
What is Dresden, Germany (firebombed by the US Army Air Corps)
100
A US president that was an honorary member of the Friendship Fire Company in Alexandria, VA
Who is George Washington
100
The patron saint of firefighters
Who is St. Florian
200
The city to develop the first fire alarm telegraph (Gamewell) system in 1852.
What is Boston, MA
200
The number of gallons per minute that the FDNY "Superpumper" could put out
What is 8800 gpm
200
The chemical that caused the Texas City explosion in 1947 that wiped out the entire fire department
What is Ammonium Nitrate
200
He formed the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia
Who is Benjamin Franklin
200
The Greek god reported to have brought fire down to earth and gave it to mankind
Who is Prometheus
300
The year that both New York City and London established paid fire departments
What is 1865
300
Nickname for the early wooden aerial ladders
What is "big stick"
300
What year was the Great Chicago Fire?
What is 1871
300
FDNY chief who invented the Halligan tool
Who is Chief Hugh Halligan
300
Famous lithographers who created the color print series "The Life of a Fireman"
Who are Currier and Ives
400
He created the first fire department in the United States
Who is Peter Stuyvesant
400
What apparatus maker uses the bulldog insignia?
What is Mack
400
Conflagration in Massachusetts in 1973 that destoyed 18 city blocks
What is The Great Chelsea Fire
400
He was the fire chief during the Great Boston Fire in 1872
Who is Chief John S. Damrell
400
Incendiary device floated over to the US by air during WWII by the Japanese to start forest fires in the Pacific Northwest
What is a "balloon bomb"
500
He obtained the first patent for a hand pumper
Who is Richard Newsham
500
What New Hampshire manufacturing company became the largest manufacturer of steam fire apparatus?
What is Amoskeag (Mills, Manchester, NH)
500
What New Hampshire community created an ordinance that required all downtown structures to be built of brick following a conflagration that destroyed all its downtown wooden buildings in 1813?
What is Portsmouth
500
Firefighter who founded Cairns and Brothers leather fire helmet manufacturing company
Who is Henry Gratacap
500
This ancient city established the first fire department in AD 6 and was made up of slaves