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Title
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George Hale
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and descriptions of the fire chief George Consider Hale, or George Hale, and his firefighting inventions. Description of him as being born in New York in 1849 and arriving in Kansas City in 1863 as an engineer, assisting Octave Chanute in the construction of the Hannibal Bridge from 1866 to 1869, and succeeding Colonel Frank Foster as the Kansas City's second fire chief in 1882.
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Date
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1893
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Negro Named a Fire Chief
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Description
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Biographical article about the promotion of Raymond Daniel, "2339 Wabash Avenue, to battalion chief" of the Kansas City Fire Department. Daniel joined the department in 1945, became captain in 1952, and organized firefighting departments in Liberia in 1953.
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Date
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1960-11-30
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Fire Hose Demonstration
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Description
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Fire fighters and officials viewing a demonstration of a fire hose.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Fire Department Officials
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Description
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Unidentified Fire Department officials viewing demonstration of safety apparatus; notation on back of photo reads "Captain's Training School (Woodland School)."
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Building Fire
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Description
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Firemen extinguishing a smoldering fire that has destroyed an unidentified building. Several people are watching from a nearby street and filling station. There are several billboard advertisements in the background.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Legacy Garden Honors Those Who Served Country, Community
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Description
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Mt. Olivet Cemetery on Blue Ridge Blvd. and Resurrection Cemetery on NE Cookingham Drive were chosen for the establishment of a new Legacy garden especially for "those who have served their country and those who have served their community--police, fire fighters and all first responders."
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Date
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2011-11-18
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Fire Heroism, Climb against Bias Recalled
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Description
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Biographical article about Cecil Daniel, retired battalion chief with the Kansas City Fire Department. Daniel's life is stated to be in some ways a story of the growth of the Kansas City Fire Department because of its parallels with how racial bias evolved over the years with the entire department. When he started with the department in 1941, there were only ten other African American firefighters and they were in the Negro company No. 11, in the station at 2033 Vine Street. Cecil Daniel was the brother of Raymond Daniel, the first black fire chief of the Kansas City Fire Department.
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Date
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1974-06-24
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Capturing the Essence of Eudora
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Description
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Kansas City fireman Nick Berardi has sculpted a 10-foot bronze statue of author Eudora Welty that will be installed near her home in Jackson, Mississippi. Article describes how Berardi, a battalion fire chief of Station No. 4, crafted his first sculpture.
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Date
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2008-08-20
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Mayor Bartle and Fire Fighters
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Description
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Photograph shows Mayor H. Roe Bartle shaking hands with volunteers manning hose line at midtown fire.
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Date
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1958
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Object Type
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Photograph
