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LFD ON PARADE TO WELCOME THE NEW YEAR

Caption: Lakeland Firefighters (all were volunteers, who balanced their civic duties with paying jobs elsewhere) are pictured here participating in Lakeland’s New Year’s Day parade. The photo of the department’s firefighters, horses, and apparatus is near the department’s only station at the time, on the corner of modern day South Florida Avenue and Main Street. Leading the delegation is the department’s first, and at the time only, motorized vehicle, a 1911 American LaFrance Fire Engine. The American LaFrance Fire Engine Company was one of the oldest fire apparatus manufacturers in the United States. With roots that go back to approximately 1832, the companies that went on to become American LaFrance built hand-drawn, horse-drawn, and steam-powered fire engines.

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