Firefighters slide down the slippery pole to a waiting engine. (1948) Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis __1878: __A Chicago firefighter hears the alarm ringing and slides down a pole that just happened ...
It sprouts from the concrete floor in the narrow space between two trucks, rising 18 feet high -- the only one of its kind in Richmond: The last fire pole. The shiny brass cylinder ends in the ...