The Fire Museum

Lantern Night at the Fire Museum, Saturday, October 25, 6 pm. New this year: Craft beer and pizza for sale. Come join us! Tickets at the door.

See more than 40 pieces of apparatus by lantern light. Saturday, October 25,6-8 pm. Pizza and beer for sale. Cookies and cider for everyone.

Pirates are sometimes portrayed with hooks on their hands. We have apparatus with the word "Hook" in them, just like our 1903 Holloway Hook & Ladder. This apparatus was built by famous Baltimore City Fire Department Chief, fire apparatus maker, and inventor, Charles T. Holloway. 

Many of his apparatus served both Baltimore city and Baltimore County, but also fire departments throughout the mid-Atlantic, he even was noted to have sold some apparatus to emerging fire departments in South America. This apparatus was originally supplied with solid beam ladders rather than the trussed ones seen here, the ladders were supported on rollers that helped to speed their removal at a fire.

One of the other unique things about this apparatus is that it is blue rather than the typical red that is often associated with fire apparatus. This piece served in Marion PA, and the story goes that it was the mayor's daughter's favorite color and she wanted it painted it that way.

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