"Fire Prevention" - L to R - Jimmy McCants, Don Powell, Mrs, Arnold Lewis (Nadine), Warren Hughes. West Minte Vista Ave. year 1967
Vacaville Fire Department artifacts
This project is a direct result of the desire of Fire Chief Robert A. Powell, the fourth paid Fire Chief of the Vacaville Fire Department, to have accumulated in one place the most accurate and complete history of the Department possible. Several sources of information were used in researching this work. The majority of the information came, however, from three sources: Vacaville's history book entitled "Vacavllle, the Herltage of a California Communlty" by Ronald H. [...]
Chief Hughes with garbage truck fire - year 1967
Suisun, California - Spinney #14, Suisun fire engine of 1861. A hand pumper, made in Boston in 1857 and first used by the San Francisco Fire Department, Fire Chief Carol Hall, photos taken Sept 6, 1968
John Rico
John Rico 12/7/80