Firehouses of North America
ON THE BOOK SHELF
By John M. Malecky July, 2026
Firehouses of North America
A Pictorial History by Photogr5apher Jeremiah Herderich
Available from:
FSP Books
433 Main Street, Suite 2A
Hudson, MA 01749
1-800-5228528
E-mail: support@fire-police-ems.com
Price: $47.50
This is a hard cover coffee table book measuring eight inches by 11 ½ inches and has 208 pages. The author has a colorful background beginning at an early age. He has served as a volunteer and paid firefighter in the fire service and presently is a lieutenant in the Denver, Nebraska Fire Department. The book features 350 separate firehouses all of which were active when photographed. Many are unique and historic. The book also features interior and apparatus shots, some fire photography and some street scenes to illustrate the perspective of the neighborhood s in which they are. There are 22 chapters plus an index. The chapters include West Coast Firehouses ( a full chapter), and then separate chapters of San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles City and County, Separate chapters cover the Los Angeles City and County Fire Departments. County Station 127 which was the one that the television show “Emergency” used is in this book. A Full chapter features Western U.S, Firehouses with separate chapters on Colorado firehouses and the Denver Fire Department. Two pages are dedicated to Midwest Firehouses followed by full chapters for Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit. Chapters on Southern U.S. Firehouses, Florida Firehouses are next followed by Eastern U.S. Firehouses including Boston and Cambridge, MA., and Baltimore, MD. The District of Columbia takes up a chapter. There is a Firehouse introduction for the FDNY featuring information about the five boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. Photos of stations in all but Staten Island are featured. Four pages take up firehouses in Canada. All photos are color and of excellent quality. Many have apparatus in them but there is no information about the vehicles as this is strictly a firehouse book. I have one lame remark to make and that is one of the New York City boroughs is named “The Bronx” not just “Bronx”, but he author not being form New York is excused for not knowing this. For the price this is an excellent book and the reader will be well pleased perusing over it.
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