our Collection

Enter This Place to Learn - Leave This Place and Share

Collection

 

The North Charleston Fire Museum and Educational Center is proud to house the largest collection of professionally restored American LaFrance fire apparatus in the country. With over 20 vehicles in our collection, dating as far back as 1780's, the North Chareston Fire Museum has become renouned as destination for fire history and the preservation antique fire apparatus. All the pieces in our collection still run and can fight fire just like the day it was produced.

1904 Cosmopolitan Steamer
1857 - Button & Blake Hand Pumper
1886 - Silsby Steam Pumper
1911 - "type 5"  Double Tank Combination
1911 - "type 8" Roadster
1912 - Metropolitan Steam Pumper
1914 - "type 12" Pumper
1919 - ALF/Ford Model T Chemical Car
1920- "Type 40" Combination
1920 - "Type 75" Pump & Hose Car
1926 - "Type 75" Triple compbination
1929 - "type 270" Service Ladder Truck
1931 - "Type 191" Pumper with Water Tank
1932 - "Type 235" Pumper
1935 - 400 Series
1940 - 500 Series Pumper
1956 - 700-Series Pumper
1958 - GMC Snorkel
1969 - 900-Series Dominion Pumper