on’t you just long for the days where firemen wore flame-retardant top hats and pea coats and drove trucks with fancier brassware than most multi million-dollar mansions? So do we, mostly because they never existed – there’s no such thing as a flame retardant pea coat. This picture from reader Earl Burroughs depicts William Green, fire chief for 38 years en route to earning the nickname “grand old man of the department,” and Mayor Charles French with the first piece of mechanized equipment the Concord fire department ever received.
on’t you just long for the days where firemen wore flame-retardant top hats and pea coats and drove trucks with fancier brassware than most multi million-dollar mansions? So do we, mostly because they never existed – there’s no such thing as a flame retardant pea coat. This picture from reader Earl Burroughs depicts William Green, fire chief for 38 years en route to earning the nickname “grand old man of the department,” and Mayor Charles French with the first piece of mechanized equipment the Concord fire department ever received.
