Firefighting History Links | Other Fire Museums | General Firefighting History | Apparatus | Firefighters | Fires | Links to other Fire Museums Fire Museum Network http://www.firemuseumnetwork.org/fmn/dir.html General Firefighting History Firehouse.Com: The American Fire Service 1648 to 1998 http://www.firehouse.com/magazine/american/index.html Online articles include: Firefighting in Colonial America Fire Disasters: What Lessons Have We Learned Fire Apparatus Past & Present Taking Charge: The Evolution Of Fireground Command The Development Of Breathing Apparatus Firemanics - The E-Journal of Fire Service History http://www.firemanics.com Firehose Jim (and other links and information about fire horses) http://www.toledofiremuseum.com/jimhorse/jimhorse.htm Our Firemen - a History of the NY Fire Department (c.1887 by A.E. Costello) http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/fire/ Images of various firefighting related paper items from the 1800s http://home.att.net/~mforder/#Firefighting Firehydrant.org - the # 1 Fire Hydrant Information Resource Site http://www.firehydrant.org “Fire of Liberty: Firefighters, American Urban Voluntary Culture, and the Revolutionary Movement” http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/58.4/carp.html Fire Apparatus History Handtub Junction (Hand Pumer information) http://www.handtubs.com The Silsby Steamer Site http://www.engine3.org/Silsby/silsbyhome.html Classic American Fire Apparatus - ( photos of horse drawn to 1964 apparatus) http://www.212.net/fire/fire.htm SPAAMFAA - The Society for the Preservation and Appreciation of Antique Motorized Fire Apparatus in America http://www.spaamfaa.org History of Firefighters (the human side) “Didja' Ever Want To Be a FIREMAN?” - children firefighters and American culture http://www.auroraregionalfiremuseum.org/didja/ History of African American Firefighters http://hometown.aol.com/fireriter/index.html Women in Firefighting: A History http://www.wfsi.org/women_and_firefighting/history.php Historical Fires Chicago Historical Society's "Web of Fire" http://www.chicagohistory.org/fire/ The Cause of the Great Chicago Fire! http://www.thechicagofire.com/ PBS American Experiance - Chicago and the Great Fire http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/maps/index.html Peshtigo Fire of 1871 http://www.peshtigofire.info/ Our Lady of Angels School Fire http://www.olafire.com/ Our Lady of Angels School Fire - "Angels Too Soon" documentary on PBS http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=1,7,1,1,2 Peshtigo Fire Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/Fire.htm The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ “America Never Forgets” - a multi-media presentatiom memorializing the events of September 11, 2001 http://attacked911.tripod.com How Stuff Works - How "Fire" Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/fire.htm How "Wildfires" Work http://www.howstuffworks.com/wildfire.htm How "Fire Extinguishers" Work http://www.howstuffworks.com/fire-extinguisher.htm How "Fire Engines" Work http://www.howstuffworks.com/fire-engine.htm How Smoke Detectors Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/smoke.htm Why does smoke come from a fire? http://www.howstuffworks.com/question43.htm