[quote name='fyreline' date='14 January 2010 - 02:44 PM' timestamp='1263497077' post='358501']
[size="5"]Well, I know what a "Baltimore Basket" is (At least I think I do), but I don't know exactly why it's called that. If it's like most fire service innovations, it's because it is credited with originating there. If it's truly like most fire service innovations, there will also be various parties who will dispute that.[/size]
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Chief I think you are on the money.
In the Classic Mack & Ward LaFrance Apparatus Thread, posts 241 nand 242 shows one pretty good.
[size="5"]Well, I know what a "Baltimore Basket" is (At least I think I do), but I don't know exactly why it's called that. If it's like most fire service innovations, it's because it is credited with originating there. If it's truly like most fire service innovations, there will also be various parties who will dispute that.[/size]
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Chief I think you are on the money.
In the Classic Mack & Ward LaFrance Apparatus Thread, posts 241 nand 242 shows one pretty good.
John Hinant
Retired Member of Richmond VA Fire Bureau
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Retired Member of Richmond VA Fire Bureau
October 25, 1858 - October 25, 2020 = 162 years old
The sixth oldest paid, documented, Fire Department in the United States
First established in 1782
"In God We Trust - All Others We Take For Granted"