06-16-2010, 06:52 PM
Dave -
I'm likin' your progress ... and the photos of the 1:1 Fire Houses are so cool! I've always thought they were pretty cool ...
In the town where I grew up (Wayne, PA, along the Pennsy Main Line west of Philly) we had a Volunteer Fire Company. It was right next door to the Junior High and sort of diagonally across the street from our house, next to my Dad's Methodist Church on the corner. When the big siren would go off, (that thing was loud enough to raise the dead,
hock: but is was a large township) we used to time how long it took enough of them to get there, and have that first truck leave the house. Usually at about 2 1/2 to 3 minutes ... they were pretty quick!
[Back then, Cops had red lights and the volunteer fire guys had flashing blue lights behind their car's grille. I think the volunteer fire fighter's got special dispensation to ignore the speed limit when they had those blue lights on and were "flyin' low" on their way in to the Fire House!]
Keep pluggin' there, Dave! It's lookin' great!
I'm likin' your progress ... and the photos of the 1:1 Fire Houses are so cool! I've always thought they were pretty cool ...
In the town where I grew up (Wayne, PA, along the Pennsy Main Line west of Philly) we had a Volunteer Fire Company. It was right next door to the Junior High and sort of diagonally across the street from our house, next to my Dad's Methodist Church on the corner. When the big siren would go off, (that thing was loud enough to raise the dead,
hock: but is was a large township) we used to time how long it took enough of them to get there, and have that first truck leave the house. Usually at about 2 1/2 to 3 minutes ... they were pretty quick![Back then, Cops had red lights and the volunteer fire guys had flashing blue lights behind their car's grille. I think the volunteer fire fighter's got special dispensation to ignore the speed limit when they had those blue lights on and were "flyin' low" on their way in to the Fire House!]
Keep pluggin' there, Dave! It's lookin' great!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln