1909 Firefighter Duties
Over at the blog called Firefighter, there are some interesting posts about firefighting back in the early 1900s. Here is an excerpt from a post about 1909 firefighter duties.
A fireman started at the large salary of $75 a month, working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the meal hours ran in three periods, as follows, dived up in shifts from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. for breakfast, and so on until supper time. You could take three one hour meals, or two one and a half ones, or one three hour meal. Anyway if you had a family you only saw them three hours a day. Hardly enough for your wife and children to know you.
Tough hours! The rest of the article has a lot of detail about how they maintained the horses and equipment.
