Steel Fire Brigade Buckets
Datec. 1920 - 1940
Dimensions9 1/4 x 10 1/2 " (each)
Credit LineTransferred from the collection of Fanshawe Pioneer Village, London, Ontario, 2004
Object number2004.021.009
Label TextThese galvanized steel buckets have three handles. The top handles are weighted on one side so that the handle stands up when the buckets are not stacked. The other two handles are fixed, allowing the bucket to be held when tossing water onto a fire. Buckets played an important role in firefighting before the advent of hand-pumped fire engines and the use of fire hose lines. Firefighters in the "bucket brigade" would pass buckets of water to each other to extinguish flames.
NameBucket, Fire
late 19th century
