Fire stations with brass poles

[firecaptain38]

Hi
I would like to hear from fellow firefighters that know of any fire staions with Brass poles that are still in active service. Also where I can find pictures of them. Thanks

[42VTExplorer]

Barre City Vermont just BARELY took theirs out of service. No photos that I know of.

[fdmhbozz]

We still have a brass pole, although it is not in-service. It goes from out upstairs dormatory to the office area. If you would like, I can get a picture or two.

[lance38]

Calgary has 32 stations and I think 28 of them have active working brass poles.

[SAFD46Truck]

12 out of our 49 stations still have active poles, I think they are all steel though...no brass.

EDIT- Stations with poles

#1,#3,#5,#6,#7,#8,#9,#10,#11,# 13,#21,#46

[Weruj1]

Toledo Fire has .........I think 3 ....2 for sure that have them, Station 5 downtown/wharehouse district and station #7 In 'da hood, and maybe either 3's or 17's ............

[MattyJ]

Just about every NYC firehouse has them and uses them

[STATION2]

The Houston Fire Department has a number of stations with brass poles still in service. Another large number have larger diameter aluminum poles. My station still has brass ones. You can see some of them on our website. Do a search for Houston Fire Department Station 68 or go www.houstonfire.com and look at the links page for the website.

Stay low and move it in.

[TC33FF]

Well since we are on the subject of Texas Galveston st. 1 has poles. Fort worth St 2 has a pole. Dallas St 11 has a pole. Austin St 4 has a pole. Bellaire in Houston area has poles. Dallas has a few others I believe. Houston has 9, 21, 22, 7, 68, 2, 19, 68, 16 and a few others. That is all that I know. chris

[emtbff927]

Here is a picture of an Austin Fire Dept. station with brass pole. I think this is station 18 in the mid 1960's, but not sure. Here's the
link for the AFD history site where I got the pic if interested.

[Parrothead]

All 12 Stations in Syracuse have brass poles.Still use them every day.How else would you get downstairs?

[HeavyRescueTech]

Originally posted by Parrothead
All 12 Stations in Syracuse have brass poles.Still use them every day.How else would you get downstairs?

ummm, I know this might be a radically new concept, but maybe by taking the stairs? you can even take them down, as well as up (hence the term, downstairs)....

[TillerMan25]

Stations in P.G. County with Poles:

Station 1, Hyattsville
Station 2 (old,) Cottage City
Station 12, College Park
Station 17, Boulevard Heights
Station 25, Clinton (We have three of them )
Station 26, District Heights
Station 29, Silver Hill
Station 31, Beltsville
Station 43, Bowie


Station 34, Chillum-Adelphi might have them, but I have never been inside to see.

[TillerMan25]

Two of our members hanging out by the pole, would have been a good shot but I wanted to block out their faces in case they didn't want to be posted all over the web.

[ff7134]

Our new main station that is in the design phase will have a brass pole.

[SFD3468]

We have one, but ours is short. It leads from the hallway outside the bunkroom to the hallway that goes to the engine bay.

[firemangeorge]

Originally posted by DrParasite:
"ummm, I know this might be a radically new concept, but maybe by taking the stairs? you can even take them down, as well as up (hence the term, downstairs)...."

Hmmm....I use the pole to get to the first floor. That bumpy slide you call "the stairs" is to hard on my bottom!

Fg

[tribe9a]

In my home county Primos-Secane-Westbrook Park Fire Co. has just completed construction of their new station with a brass pole included. The pole was imported from Germany. www.upperdarby74.com

[SteveDude]

All but a couple of single storey Fire Stations in London have Polehouses...the older ones have Brass poles the newer ones (Post 1960's construction) have larger alluminium poles.

There are also a couple of very old Stations that had them removed for safety reasons...

[cfdjesmith]

Here in COlumbia, SC we have 6 stations with poles that are still in service today.