As the spring and summer travel season begins to kick off, please consider this travel treasure in your plans.
At some point in many people’s lives they were children who wanted to be firefighters. That’s probably because firefighters seemed like the closest reality could come to providing superhereos. After all, it takes a special breed to “run in when everyone else is running out,” as the saying goes.
That special breed is honored in Phoenix at the Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting. The roots of the hall are in founder George F. Getz Jr.’s hobby of collecting firefighting equipment, but its current status is that of a monument to a heroic profession.
The Hall of Flame contains six exhibit galleries covering 35,000 square feet. The galleries are full of tools, machinery, vehicles and other items from all over the world. In addition to tracking the history of firefighting through the advancement in equipment, the hall also delves into the human aspect of firefighting in one gallary.
Called the National Firefighting Hall of Hereos, the gallery honors firefighters who have received citations, as well as those who have died in the line of duty. (More than 2, 000 firefighters have died since national records started being kept in 1981.)
Call (602)275-3473 or go online at www.hallofflame.org for more information.
Information courtesy of Home & Away Magazine. For more information about Home & Away, call (800) 282-7800. Or visit online at www.homeandawaymagazine.com.
Live Safe Foundation is an Ohio based non-profit organization (501c3), and leading grassroots movement, devoted to making fire safety education, awareness initiatives and life saving tools available on a broad basis to communities, campuses, and institutions in an effort to reduce national fire fatalities and fire losses. Live Safe aims to help finance fire safety education where means are otherwise unavailable. Live Safe is developing and sponsoring programs to help groups find the resources needed to advance individual and community fire safety.
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