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[Fighting a fire from the rooftop of a townhouse]

[Fighting a fire from the rooftop of a townhouse]
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Title: [Fighting a fire from the rooftop of a townhouse]
Description:

A fire company attempting to put out a fire. The photo shows a ladder reaching up to the roof of a townhouse from a firetruck across the street as smoke billows overhead. A fireman is on top of the roof and he faces away from the camera. In the foreground are the heads of a group of onlookers.
Date: 1977
Location: Bushwick (New York, N.Y.) [2]
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [3]
Creator: unknown
Collection: 1977 Blackout Slide collection [4]
Subject: Electric power failures [5]
Building [6]
Townhouses (Attached houses) [7]
Fire [8]
Fire departments [9]
Fire engines & equipment [10]
Fire fighters [11]
Fire fighting [12]
Fire fighting equipment [13]
Fire hats [14]
Fire helmets [15]
Smoke [16]
Institution: Brooklyn Historical Society
Medium: Color slides
Rights: RESTRICTED
ID: v2007.042.53
 
Source URL (retrieved on 07/25/2017 - 22:51): http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/fighting-fire-rooftop-townhouse

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[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/66fb8ee3e475a0783722d42712c8b8fc&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Bushwick+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/1977+Blackout+Slide+collection
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/e/Electric power failures
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Building
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/t/Townhouses (Attached houses)
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fire
[9] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fire departments
[10] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fire engines %26 equipment
[11] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fire fighters
[12] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fire fighting
[13] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fire fighting equipment
[14] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fire hats
[15] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Fire helmets
[16] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Smoke