Bay County past and present . ne, was bought withmoney raised by popular sub-scription. (Leather hose foruse with the hand engine wasborrowed, and a triangle alarm was obtained. Until about 1876 Trv Us 1859 the firemen were volunteers.) In 1861 a hand engine called the Tiger was purchased and later soldto the village of Sebewaing. Then $1,000 was raised by bonding thecity for the purchase of another hand engine and a hose cart. Thename of the engine was Red Rover, and its home was in a woodenstructure on Saginaw street. H. M. Bradley was the citys first chiefengineer. He was appointed in 1861.
Bay County past and present . ne, was bought withmoney raised by popular sub-scription. (Leather hose foruse with the hand engine wasborrowed, and a triangle alarm was obtained. Until about 1876 Trv Us 1859 the firemen were volunteers.) In 1861 a hand engine called the Tiger was purchased and later soldto the village of Sebewaing. Then $1,000 was raised by bonding thecity for the purchase of another hand engine and a hose cart. Thename of the engine was Red Rover, and its home was in a woodenstructure on Saginaw street. H. M. Bradley was the citys first chiefengineer. He was appointed in 1861. At the fire of 1863 the RedRover company attempted to pass the flames above Sixth street. Theengine was being pulled by a line of about sixty men, and those aheadin rushing forward got into more heat than they could stand. Theysuddenly turned to the west, and the result was that the engine andhose tumbled over the bank and were allowed to burn where they left the city without any protection whatever. In those 182 BAY COUNTY, PAST AND PRESENT. if the fire was some distance away, the first horse that came along-was hitched to the engine and was made to pull it to the fire. Fireswere of so often an occurrence that the council issued bonds to theextent of $6,000 to procure more apparatus, and a sufficient amountwas ordered to be spent in a steam fire engine which, however, wasnot done for several years. Five hundred dollars were also appro-priated at that time to repair or rebuild the Red Rover.
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