Engine Company No. 6
Second Street near Boyle Avenue

1893

SIGHT OF BURSTED SEWER PIPE
CAUSES WOMEN TO CALL FIREMEN
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AUTHORS OF FALSE ALARM
FOUND BY DETECTIVES
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Confession is Said to Have Been
Secured From Meek and 
Penitent Little
Women
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    In running down the author of a false alarm turned in Friday morning from a fire alarm box at Buena Vista and Temple streets the police say they discovered the alarm was telephoned by two unprotected women, who were terrified at the sight of a burst sewer pipe.

    Detectives Zeigler, Craig and Hosick, all heavily armed, followed a clew given to them by Fire Chief Lips, and finally they succeeded in rounding up two very terrified women, whom they believe gave the fire department a long run on a hot day.

    The sleuths reported last night that they found the alarm was telephoned from the Mozart flats, 309 Buena Vista street.  They interrogated the landlady Mrs. A. E. Fouch, but that personage stoutly denied sending for the apparatus.

Said to Have Confessed

    Finally in giving the "third degree" to the lodgers the officers said they found Mrs. C. Brandt, a woman of innocent face and timid manners.

    The officers say they extorted a confession from Mrs. Brandt that she telephoned to fire headquarters for several engines to come to Buena Vista and Temple streets.

    Mrs. Brandt said she was not filled with any great desire to see foam-flecked fire horses come to their abode, but the officers assert she meekly told them she was doing the calling for the landlady, Mrs. Fouch, who was aghast to see the sewer pipe flooding an adjacent cellar.

    Chief Lips referred the whole affair to the police when he learned two women were said to be responsible for the false alarm.

    The detectives said they did not have the heart to arrest the women unless the performance is encored by them for some other trifling cause.

ENGINE COMPANY RESPONDS
WHEN BABY IS BORN
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Happy Father Answers Alarm on First
Truck, Then Motions Away Grinning
Comrades----Sturdy Youngster
Awaits the Bunch
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    A. E. Church, a fireman of engine company No. 6, was agreeably surprised early yesterday when with his company he made a desperate dash to his own residence at 1334 Calnmet street in response to a supposed alarm of fire only to learn that the neighbors had been attempting to notify him that he had just become a father of a ten pound boy.

    Church was asleep at the engine house when the baby was born and relatives attempted to call him home by telephone.

    In some way the request was misunderstood at the company house and the hose cart, engine and chemical wagon turned loose and went clanging toward Church's home, while the fireman, fearful lest his home be burned, was hanging desperately to the first truck.

    He was the first to enter the house but he was very soon informed that he was to attend neither a fire nor a false alarm, and quietly motioning away his grinning comrades he entered the room where a sturdy youngster was awaiting his first glimpse of his big father.

Engine Company No. 6

1914

This was the last year for the horses at
Engine 6.  In 1914 the horse drawn hose wagon was replaced with a 1914 Moreland/Racine Combination Chemical & Hose Wagon, Shop Number #40. (Shown on the left.)