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."
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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