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CAPE
COD BRUSH BREAKERS
History of Cape Cod's Unique Forest Firefighting Apparatus
By Britton Crosby
Originally posted January 2001 - Complete rebuild February 2016
Updated February 10, 2016
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MAIN INDEX PAGE
BRUSH & FOREST FIRE APPARATUS
HISTORY
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FIRE DEPARTMENTS
INDEX
Barnstable County
Dukes & Nantucket
Plymouth
County Other Depts
APPARATUS TYPE INDEX
Aircraft
Brush Breakers Forestry
& Patrol Forestry Engines
Tankers Misc Towers
FIRE INDEX
Barn County Fires Plym County Fires
YEARS
INDEX
Pre 1900
1900-1950 1951-2000
Since 2000
RECENT
UPDATES
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1937 THE FIRST
BRUSH BREAKER
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HISTORY OF
CAPE COD BRUSH
BREAKERS |
Brief summary of the
development of brush breakers on Cape Cod
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| 1939 -
Barnstable County Brush Breaker No. 1 |
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| 1942 -
Barnstable County Brush Breaker No. 2 |
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Plymouth County Brush Breaker 2-5 |
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| 1960 -
Barnstable County Brush Breaker No. 4 |
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MAJOR BRUSH & FOREST FIRES -
INCIDENTS BY YEAR |
1780 - Upper Cape Forest Fire - 25,000 acres "The Dark
Day"
1900 - Sept 12-15 - Carver-Plymouth "Great Fire"
1907 - Upper Cape Fire - Seen from Onset
1923 - May 30 - Pocasset Forest Fire - 7 days - 25,000 acres
1937 - Spring - Bourne-Plymouth Forest Fire - 300 acres -
Herring Pond
1937 - April 27 - Forest Fire Sandwich - 3 Firemen Killed /
Route 130 Memorial
1937 - May 4 - Forest Fire Plymouth - Pine Hills area - 2
Firemen Killed, others burned
1937 - May 4 - Other Plymouth Fires - Island Pond & Summer
St - 700 men fought fires
1937 - May 5 - Hyannis - Forest Fire Ridgewood Ave 2000
acres (Burned up 1937 Breaker)
1957 - May 8 - Carver-Plymouth-Myles Standish - 15,000 acres
1957 - May 8 - Mashpee Plane Crash Forest Fire Hay Road
1964 - May 23 - South Carver - Large Forest Fire
1964 - May 25 - South Carver-Wareham - 5,500 acres
1965 - May 1 - Otis-Sandwich Forest Fire - Jumped Route 6
1971 - May 15 - Plymouth - Myles Standish - 165 acres - 2
fore trucks burned
1986 - March - Otis Forest Fire - Large fire
1986 - April 19 - Otis Forest Fire - Wood Road
1988 - April 22 - Otis Forest Fire - PAVE PAWS 2000 acres
1991 - Plymouth 1200 acres
1995 - May 8 - Plymouth Bourne Road area - 95 acres, homes
threatened
2005 - April 18 - Plymouth Forest Fire Clark Estates
30 acres
2005 - April 20 - Barnstable Mary Dunn Road fire
2007 - April 1 - Nantucket - Large brush fire - Mutual aid
from Cape
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APPARATUS & FOREST FIRE HISTORY - BY
YEAR |
1800's - Early Forest Fire spotting towers
1914 - Falmouth Fire Tower built
1919 - Barnstable Fire Tower
1923 - Shawme State Forest designated in Sandwich
1928 - Forest Fire Prevention Experiments on Cape Cod
1937 - April 27 - Forest Fire Sandwich - 3 Firemen Killed /
Route 130 Memorial
1938 - Shawme-Crowell State Forest Sandwich - Named for Fire
Patrolman Lincoln Crowell2007 - Training - Crane Wildlife
Falmouth
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