Fire Brigade Bucket
Credit LineTransferred from the collection of Fanshawe Pioneer Village, London, Ontario, 2014
Object number2014.019.010
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
c. 1920 - 1940
late 19th century
1916-1922