Saturday, July 25, 2009

Fire!

Inside the Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg are many wonderful exhibits. Here, my cousin, who was a volunteer fireman, is photographing an old firetruck. Very pretty and quaint, but I think most of us are happy the modern ones will arrive much faster.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'll say!

Alexa said...

By the time they got the horses hitched to this thing and made it to the scene of . . . well, the blaze was probably burned out by then, don't you think?
I'll bet your cousin really enjoyed this exhibit.

soulbrush said...

tee hee no wonder so many people died back then. marvellous piece.

marley said...

Yeah, I'm not sure we'd be pleased to see these back in service!

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