
The Town of Barnstable Forest Fire Department
built this brush breaker (B-212) in 1962.
The 1962 International / Maxim 500 gallon brush breaker was stationed in
Centerville.
When the T.O.B.F.F.D. was disbanded in 1975, the Centerville-Osterville
Fire Department took over the breaker.

The COMM Fire Department operated the 1962
International breaker until its
retirement in 1995. The medium sized brush breaker had a 500 gallon tank
and gasoline motor.

The COMM FD Breaker 317 at a small brush fire.

Onset F-9 - 1962 Dodge Power Wagon 200 gallon
forestry truck

Lakeville Engine 4 was a 1964 International / Maxim 250 gpm / 575 gallon
Brush Breaker.

Lakeville's 1964 International / Maxim brush
breaker became Forest Fire 2 (64)

1964 International / Maxim 750 gallon brush
breaker operated by the
Marion Fire Department in Plymouth County was originally called Engine 5.
It later became Breaker 1.

Marion's Breaker 1 (127) is the 1964
International.

Freetown, MA Brush Breaker
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STATE BREAKERS

State Breaker 5 was a 1964 FWD / Farrar 1000 gallon brush breaker.
It served Cape Cod from Shawme Crowell State Forest in Sandwich.

State Breaker 6 at a July 4th parade in Cotuit in 1980s.

State Breaker 5 & 6 were twin 1964 FWD / Farrar 1000 gallon brush breakers.
Both served the Cape into the 1990s.

Old State FWD Brush Breaker was operated by the Brewster Fire Department for a
period of
time during the 1990s after the two old Maxim brush breakers went out of
service.

A State fire truck from District 5 along with one
of the 1964 FWD State breakers at
a fire on the Cape in the 1960s.

State Breaker 3-7 would have served in Bristol
County. A 1960s FWD / Farrar breaker, it
was very similar to the Cape breakers.
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CARVER FIRE 1964

Cape Cod and Plymouth county brush breakers
responded to a large
forest fire in Carver in May 1964.

Carver fire 1964.

Carver fire 1964
Several structures were also destroyed.

Dense smoke from the Carver fire in 1964.

Carver 1964.
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1965 TRUCKS

1965 Jeep Forestry 8 belonged to the Wareham Fire
Department.

Cape Cod National Seashore operates several fire
apparatus to protect the seashore.
This 1965 International L-1700 4x4 / Darley tanker has a 250 gpm pump and
1000 gallon tank.
Tanker 279.

Maxim built Falmouth a tank truck in 1965.
The International 4x4 carried 1000 gallons
of water. Tanker 1 (35) is still in service in Falmouth.

Falmouth Tanker 18, 1965 International. Originally Tanker 1 (35).

Sandwich replaced its 1939 brush breaker in 1965
with a Dodge brush breaker.


Sandwich Breaker 143 was built in 1965. The
Dodge Power Wagon
built by Maynard had a 600 gallon tank.

Sandwich Fire Department's 1960s Dodge Breaker 142 several years
after retirement.
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CAPE COD BRUSH BREAKERS
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Related Links
Massachusetts DCR - Bureau of Forest
Fire Control
Forest Fire Lookout Association
History Early Fire Towers
Massachusetts Fire Tower Locations
CCFD.com - Plymouth Brush Breaker Drill April 2006
CCFD.com - Plymouth-Wareham Brush Fires May 2006
CCFD.com
- Sandwich Fire Tower 2006

NOTE
Photos in this series are from various sources
including fire department and personal collections.
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