Fire Bucket
Credit LineTransferred from the collection of Fanshawe Pioneer Village, London, Ontario, 2014
Object number2014.019.009
Label TextThis red galvanized steel bucket has a curved handle on the base, used for holding the bucket 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
c. 1920 - 1940
1916-1922