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' /> Check out the Sept. 1984 issue of Firehouse - on pg. 51 is a photo story on the huge fire at the Henry Leather co. in Peabody, which occurred on 5/10/84. The lead photo shows this truck "taking the heat" at this blaze and the story states the hose supplying the ladder pipe burned away, and all the FFs with the truck received burns. That would account for the damage if the photo was taken after that date.[/quote]
If I recall correctly the Prospect st. station pictured behind the truck was built in 1987, so the photo was surely taken after the Henry Leather co. fire of 1984. I have that issue of Firehouse as well as the newspapers from that massive fire, and suspected myself that's where the scorching occured.
I have also seen photos of the Mack CF/Aerialscope that replaced this truck with scorch marks as well. Peabody has had a lot of big, hot ones over the years with it's abundance of tanneries and other large industrial buidlings.
' /> Check out the Sept. 1984 issue of Firehouse - on pg. 51 is a photo story on the huge fire at the Henry Leather co. in Peabody, which occurred on 5/10/84. The lead photo shows this truck "taking the heat" at this blaze and the story states the hose supplying the ladder pipe burned away, and all the FFs with the truck received burns. That would account for the damage if the photo was taken after that date.[/quote]If I recall correctly the Prospect st. station pictured behind the truck was built in 1987, so the photo was surely taken after the Henry Leather co. fire of 1984. I have that issue of Firehouse as well as the newspapers from that massive fire, and suspected myself that's where the scorching occured.
I have also seen photos of the Mack CF/Aerialscope that replaced this truck with scorch marks as well. Peabody has had a lot of big, hot ones over the years with it's abundance of tanneries and other large industrial buidlings.
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