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1945 - Fire at Municipal Airport - loss $650,000 and 40 airplanes.
1945 - Bus burned - 100 N. Topeka.
June 14, 1946 - Station No. 2 Crew.
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In 1945, one of the largest fires to occur, burned a City aircraft hangar at Municipal Airport with a loss of half a million dollars.
The next year, a bond issue was defeated which, if it had passed, would have permitted the Fire Department to obtain three engines and a new aerial. As it was, one new American LaFrance 750 GPM engine was purchased. Chief Brown was attempting to replace equipment, some of it twenty and thirty years old.
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