About This Item


  • Call NumberWORK_0391.tif
  • TitleTurning in 2D alarm.
  • SummaryFirefighter using phone in car. Newspaper clipping pasted to back of photograph from article, stamped: April 26, 1953, reading: Turning on 2D alarm. Fire Chief Peter Loftus, who turns up at fires all over the city, demonstrates how second alarm is turned in via department's newest fire-fighting aid, two-way radio, in cab of engine at fire scene. Inscription in pencil reads: "Radio, latest addition to F.D. Chief Loftus radios for help from scene of big fire. Fire Department Brooklyn's Fire Alarm Central Office."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographs
  • CreatorUnknown
  • SubjectFire departments
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Fire department: Fire Alarm Central Office