Kalgoorlie Fire Brigade

1907
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A safety film negative depicting four members of the Kalgoorlie fire brigade on a horse-drawn fire engine in front of the fire station.

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Registration number
cwa-org-11-EG-N-086-006-P
Width
35 mm
Height or length
25 mm
Place made
Kalgoorlie
Western Australia
Australia
Year
1907
Eastern Goldfields Historical Society

Eastern Goldfields Historical Society

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Four fire fighters sit on a small horse-drawn wagon in front of a corrugated iron building labelled 'Fire Station'. The wagon is labelled 'Kalgoorlie Fire Brigade'.
Numerous fires in timber, iron and hessian buildings encouraged the establishment of Kalgoorlie’s first Fire Brigade in 1896. When an alarm was signalled, the volunteer fire fighters needed to gather and harness the horses before racing off to the scene of the fire.

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