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Uplift Mobility / Beirne's Home Medical
April 15, 2002
Major Conflagration on Sherman Avenue
The HFRA website wishes to thank Lieut. Jeff Pechmann for these remarkable images of a nasty Sherman Avenue multiple alarm fire he photographed when he was an off-duty firefighter thirteen years ago. The fast moving blaze destroyed two medical supply businesses at 805 Sherman Avenue. Two firefighters were injured and Hamden's Truck 1 was damaged by intense radiant heat generated by the flames. A huge column of smoke and flames that shot more that fifty feet in the air could be seen for miles around.
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| Intense heat damaged the tip of the aerial and the windshield of Truck 1 |
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| The New Haven Register, Tuesday, April 16, 2002 (Courtesy of Gil Spencer) CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE |
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As seen from the rear deck of a home in the Honor Hill section off Ann's Farm Road, about 1,000 feet east of the fire. Note the flames reflected from within the large column of smoke.
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60 Years Ago
Thursday, November 17, 1955
Fatal Fire at 24 Brookhaven Road
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| The New Haven Evening Register, Thursday, November 17, 1955 (Courtesy of Chan Brainard) |
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Spark Time
The fifth of seven images from the mid-1960s Maxim fire apparatus catalog is a "closed-cab" cab-forward 85' aerial ladder truck, very similar to Hamden's 1970 one hundred footer.
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