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Monday, May 2, 2011

Ready for those fire calls



Everyone loves photos of old fire trucks, and Donna Hartman of Hatfield has provided a great one today.



She notes that this photo might be from 1942 and was taken in Line Lexington at the site of the current firehouse.



The man at left, in uniform, is Hartman’s great-grandfather, Charles Layer.“He was a retired captain from the Philadelphia Fire Department, where he won a prestigious award for rescuing a person from a burning building in 1932,” Hartman related.“Charles Layer became the first fire chief of the Line Lexington Volunteer Fire Company. I’m not sure who the other men are, but I assume they may be other firefighters.”



Perhaps someone out there recognizes one of the men posing with this great old Line Lexington Fire Company truck.

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