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Fire House No. 5, Akron, Ohio

Posted in Government

Fire Station – Engine House No. 5

by tconte on May 7, 2018

The Akron Fire Department was fully motorized by 1914, one of the first departments to do so in the country!

Fire House No. 5, Akron, Ohio
Fire House No. 5, Akron, Ohio

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1960 On this day in 1960, Police Officer Floyd A. Weatherholt was shot and killed as he chased a burglary suspect through the backyard of a home on East Exchange Street.

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