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Uplift Mobility / Beirne's Home Medical
April 15, 2002
Major Conflagration on Sherman Avenue
 
The HFRA website wishes to thank Lieut. Jeff Pechmann for these remarkable images of a nasty Sherman Avenue multiple alarm fire he photographed when he was an off-duty firefighter thirteen years ago.  The fast moving blaze destroyed two medical supply businesses at 805 Sherman Avenue.  Two firefighters were injured and Hamden's Truck 1 was damaged by intense radiant heat generated by the flames.  A huge column of smoke and flames that shot more that fifty feet in the air could be seen for miles around.

Intense heat damaged the tip of the aerial and the windshield of Truck 1
Aftermath
The New Haven Register, Tuesday, April 16, 2002 (Courtesy of Gil Spencer) CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE
As seen from the rear deck of a home in the Honor Hill section off Ann's Farm Road, about 1,000 feet east of the fire.  Note the flames reflected from within the large column of smoke.

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60 Years Ago
Thursday, November 17, 1955
Fatal Fire at 24 Brookhaven Road

The New Haven Evening Register, Thursday, November 17, 1955 (Courtesy of Chan Brainard)
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Spark Time
 
The fifth of seven images from the mid-1960s Maxim fire apparatus catalog is a "closed-cab" cab-forward 85' aerial ladder truck, very similar to Hamden's 1970 one hundred footer.

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