Fresno Volunteer Fire Department

Fresno Volunteer Fire Department

Firefighters, Fire Department --Fresno County -- 19th century -- Fresno, (Calif.)

In 1877, a young man Leopold Gundlefinger (seated, center) and others helped form a volunteer fire "hook and ladder" company". Mr. Gundlefinger was Fresno's first foreman fighting fires with a wagon loaded with ladders, ropes, axes, and buckets.

Photograph is original. Description from Second Alarm: the Fresno Fire Department, 1877-1977 ed. by Jerome D. Laval

San Joaquin Valley Library System

Circa 1877

Fresno County Public Library

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