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Austin Fire Department Marks Fifty-Three Years of Volunteer Service
The Austin volunteer fire department celebrates its 53rd anniversary on April 21. It remains organized as a volunteer force with paid drivers, has avoided a paid department, and notes historic fires including the Capitol 1882 and Millican & Glasscock mill 1869. Since 1858 multiple companies formed, with Bremond as early chief and a long line of chiefs. in 1861 volunteers shipped 100 men to the Confederate army as the city preserves its volunteer tradition.
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Austin
Tex
State Capitol
Millican & Glasscock
Addi
James Burke
City Public Library
Bois d’Arc Street
Congress Avenue
G. J. Baggerley
Fisk & Bowers
Bergner
John T. Miller
John Bremond
Hook & Ladder Company No. 1
William Walsh
General Land Office
New York
Bremond
Hook and Ladder Company
Austin Hook and Ladder Company
Washington Engine Company
Colorado Engine Company
Chemical Engine Company
Fourth and
East Avenue
Hope Hook and Ladder Company
Ben Thompson
Protection Hook and Laidder Company
Juvenile Hook and Ladder Company
Juvenile Company Finaly
East Austin Company
Southh Austin
West Austin
Tenth Ward Fire Department
Ers
C. F. Millet
Freda Moore
J. H. Robinson
Dave Wilson
M. M. Long
J. A. Nagle
Mr. Nagle
John Bremand
Bremand
August Ziller
S. W. French
Monroe Miller
W. V. Mather
F. O. Babcock
Albert Peterson
W. P. Ford
W. E. Russell
Joseph Stumpf
Joe Macken
C. H. Bonte
Will Dill
Julius Schutze
Clarence L. Woodward
Adolf Schutze
Atech Corwin
George Wolters
Clarence L