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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 72659, member: 44"]Back when, it was not unusual to see brooms associated with fire fighting. Brooms were used to smother fires especially wildfires like across grasslands when water was not available. Here are a couple of early 1900 firemen posed with brooms.</p><p><a href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/129986" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/129986" rel="nofollow">https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/129986</a></p><p><a href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/129987" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/129987" rel="nofollow">https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/129987</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is new broom used in firefighting. This one is chemically treated.</p><p><a href="https://www.heimanfireequipment.com/product_info.php?products_id=379?osCsid=8445fa6b74e0c328e28df6381dc3e840" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.heimanfireequipment.com/product_info.php?products_id=379?osCsid=8445fa6b74e0c328e28df6381dc3e840" rel="nofollow">https://www.heimanfireequipment.com/product_info.php?products_id=379?osCsid=8445fa6b74e0c328e28df6381dc3e840</a></p><p><a href="http://www.wfrfire.com/handtools/TOOL/BROOM.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wfrfire.com/handtools/TOOL/BROOM.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.wfrfire.com/handtools/TOOL/BROOM.asp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>On the Massachusetts digital collection:</p><p><a href="https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3r074x40t" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3r074x40t" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3r074x40t</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Brooms used in wildfires in Winnipeg:</p><p><a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/firefighters-use-brooms-to-beat-flames-in-assiniboine-forest-149195635.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/firefighters-use-brooms-to-beat-flames-in-assiniboine-forest-149195635.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/firefighters-use-brooms-to-beat-flames-in-assiniboine-forest-149195635.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 72659, member: 44"]Back when, it was not unusual to see brooms associated with fire fighting. Brooms were used to smother fires especially wildfires like across grasslands when water was not available. Here are a couple of early 1900 firemen posed with brooms. [URL]https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/129986[/URL] [URL]https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/129987[/URL] Here is new broom used in firefighting. This one is chemically treated. [URL]https://www.heimanfireequipment.com/product_info.php?products_id=379?osCsid=8445fa6b74e0c328e28df6381dc3e840[/URL] [URL]http://www.wfrfire.com/handtools/TOOL/BROOM.asp[/URL] On the Massachusetts digital collection: [URL]https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3r074x40t[/URL] Brooms used in wildfires in Winnipeg: [URL]http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/firefighters-use-brooms-to-beat-flames-in-assiniboine-forest-149195635.html[/URL] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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