Fire History Resources

• Discovery Education: Lesson plans library: Forest fires
  http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/forestfires/
  
• Fact Monster: A history of firefighting
  http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0858120.html
  
• A brief history of the hydrant
  http://www.firehydrant.org/pictures/hydrant_history.html
  
• Architectural history: Photos of select Buffalo fire houses http://freenet.buffalo.edu/bah/a/jersey/304/index.html
  
• Early history of the Buffalo Fire Department
  http://freenet.buffalo.edu/bah/a/jersey/304/index.html
  
• The Buffalonian: The early history of the Buffalo Fire Department (to 1884): http://www.buffalonian.com/history/articles/1851-1900/1884buffalofiredepartment.htm
  
• Bibliography of titles pertaining to the Volunteer Firefighter Association http://www.rootsweb.com/~nysource/uvv/volu01.htm
  
• The Buffalonian: The burning of Buffalo, N.Y.: December 30, 1813 http://www.buffalonian.com/history/articles/1801-50/TheBurningofBuffalo.html
  
• Fire Museum Network
  http://www.firemuseumnetwork.org/
  
• The Immigrant Experience and the Pan American Exposition (contains a great section on the Exposition Fire Department)
  http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/exhibits/panam/immigrants/irish.html
  
• Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition
  http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/exhibits/panam/essays.html

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