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Birtle
Volunteer Fire brigade:
The original
fire brigade started the year the Town of Birtle
was Incorporated
in 1884.
In 1950 the first engine was purchased, and later a
second was bought by the R.M. of Birtle.
Both were
housed beside the Town Hall. Five
homes of volunteers
were equipped with telephones with the
number 3600.
All five would ring and the first to
answer pressed a
button which sounded the siren -- three
blasts, as distinct
from the single one heard every day at
noon. Elmor
Honey, Sandy Harvey and Fred Phillips
were sent to
take a course at No. 1 Firehall in
Winnipeg.
Mr. Honey served as Chief for 17 years followed
by Ernie Walley, Keith Wilson, Gerald
Birch and now
Kevin Hickman has the responsibility.
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