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
- Creator[unknown]
- 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