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Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley => Fire News => Topic started by: Towntalk on November 23, 2009, 09:42:24 PM

Title: Firemans Great Adventure
Post by: Towntalk on November 23, 2009, 09:42:24 PM
Greg:

In my clippings file I have a funny story about one of the Fire Stations.

Folks had strange pets and one was a baby alligater, and when it got too big they turned it loose along the Mahoning river and somehow it found its way up to a Fire Station where it was finally captured.

The adventure was reported in the July 7, 1916 Vindicator under the headline "Alligator Takes Two Weeks Stroll".



Title: Re: Firemans Great Adventure
Post by: iwasthere on November 24, 2009, 12:44:16 PM
lol ;D :D ;) :) ::)
Title: Re: Firemans Great Adventure
Post by: yfdgricker on November 24, 2009, 07:46:41 PM
That fits with the alligator story I heard. The person I heard it from said that Sta 4 at Falls and Essex on the lower South side had a baby alligator as a mascot :)
Title: Re: Firemans Great Adventure
Post by: john r. swierz on November 25, 2009, 05:31:49 PM


   Greg, is the fire truck up and running? If so do you want to be in the holiday parade? Call me
Title: Re: Firemans Great Adventure
Post by: yfdgricker on November 25, 2009, 11:11:07 PM
Unfortunately, the fire truck is in storage for the winter and probably now surrounded by other campers and recreational vehicles. If I had it in a garage where I could get the truck out, I would have considered being in the holiday parade.