Volunteer fire departments
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found: Work cat.: NUCMC data from the Peabody Essex Museum for the Union and Naumkeag Engine Company No. 5 (Salem, Mass.) Records.
found: Earnest, E.P. The volunteer fire company, 1979:p. 14 (The first volunteer fire company was the Boston Fire Society of 1717)
found: Greenberg, Amy S. Cause for alarm : the volunteer fire department in the nineteenth-century city, 1998.
found: History of Volunteer Firefighting WWW Site, July 22, 2002(The first volunteer fire department began in Philadelphia in 1736 when Benjamin Franklin created the Union Fire Company)
found: LC database, July 18, 2002(Volunteer fire departments; Volunteer fire companies)
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2002-07-22: new
2002-08-30: revised
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