Fire Engines Fire Engines
In the 1970s, fire apparatus grew longer, wider, and taller than ever before. But some of these bigger rigs could not fit into the existing firehouses, which for many east-coast communities had been built to house very small hand-drawn and horse-drawn fire equipment. Seagrave and others solved this growing problem by introducing low-profile cabs, such as this circa-1980 Seagrave pumper at Cape May, NJ. Note front siren and top deluge nozzle. (Bill Hass collection).
This page was last updated on September 2, 1999.