https://www.fireengineering.com/articles/print/volume-1889-6/issue-22/features/boston-s-fiery-thanksgiving-day.html
telegraph was used to call for help from Worcester and Springfield (100 miles away) I assume that most of the mutual aid came via railroad Arlington and Lexington did not respond - I dont know if they had steamers then or not - maybe they just had hand drawn manual pumps -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
