Part 2 of The Boys From Local 58

This is part 2 of a kitchen table discussion about Dallas Fire Department history, riding on open cab trucks, the 1936 Texas Centennial Expedition, a fatal accident, and making a big difference in the life of a young man who wandered into the fire station one day.

Guests include Captain Don Howard, Captain Reuben Millsaps, Lieutenant Mike McLemore and Lieutenant Terry May.

You can listen to the podcast through the audio player below, or you can stream it through your favorite streaming provider (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc)

Photos related to the podcast are below the audio player. A transcript of the podcast is at the bottom of this page (time marks are only approximate).

Above: Don Howard, Mike McLemore and Reuben Millsaps

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936

A Fire Engineering magazine advertisement for Peter Pirsch & Sons in the May 1939 issue

The Dallas fire department was gifted the tiller truck and a pumper in exchange for manning the apparatus at the exposition for the duration of the exposition.

27 years later, two Dallas firefighters were killed responding to a false alarm on the Centennial truck. They were responding from Station 15 and the collision with a police car occurred at Davis and Zang. Marsha Massie tales the tale of that fateful night in the Sound of a Siren episode. You can listen to it through the media player below:

Old 1’s: Note the metal sign / railing over the center bay.

The old Station 1 sign that was saved by Don Howard and Lone Star Cadillac. With the museum name affixed, it has a new purpose. The sign lets everyone know what the building is, and does so , without mounting any signage on the historical building itself.

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