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This photograph shows either the Bremen or the Main being scrapped on the Weehawken flats after it burned in the great Hoboken fire of June 30, 1900. This image is courtesy of Billy Rapacki, a Weehawken resident who spotted it at a yard sale.

The Weehawken Fire Department's Ladder 1, a 1949 American La France 100 foot aerial ladder outside of the Clifton Hose Company's firehouse on Park Avenue. This image was sent in by Tom Heck. Location information for this item: 4611 Park Avenue

The Weehawken Fire Department's Engine 3, a 1924 American La France engine outside of the Clifton Hose Company's firehouse on Park Avenue. This image was sent in by Tom Heck.

Section of a Universal Newsreel detailing a major pier fire at Weehawken in 1947.

This document contains excerpts from: The Red Book Information Guide Jersey City, Hoboken, Bayonne, Union Hill, Weehawken, West New York, North Bergen Published by the Interstate Map Co. of 315-317 Market Street in Newark and 239 Broadway in New York…

List of Weehawken Fire Alarm boxes from The Red Book Information Guide, published in 1926 by The Interstate Map Company of Newark. From the collection of Willie Demontreux.

This black and white photo postcard shows the Clifton Hose Co. which was relocated to Park Avenue. The building itself may have been moved to Fairview Terrace in West New York, according to Edward Kirk, township historian for many years. Postmarked…

This photo shows a Deputy Chief's badge from the Weehawken Fire Department (since incorporated into the North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue Department).

This colored photo shows a Chief's badge from the Weehawken Fire Department (since incorporated into the North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue Department).

This black and white photograph shows a burning pier on the Weehawken waterfront. It was sent in to the Time Machine by Dennis Cosgrove, who places it as having been taken around 1948. Pretty close - according to the New York Times (Jan 10, 1947, p.…