Peterborough Fire And Rescue Department history

Notes: Reportedly this brick building is the District 11 Schoolhouse, built in 1833.

3/9/1885 Steubenville, OH the Mossgroves Hotel burned and extended to the adjoining block including three mercantile establishments.

3, 1888, and after his death Mrs. [Mary Florence Wheeler] Abbott returned to Peterborough and lived in this house.

3/9/1899 Cooper, TX the Delta County Courthouse was completely destroyed by fire that started around 12:30 a.m. in the north side stairway leading to the cupola.

3/9/1912 seven people including three firefighters died when a wall collapses during a warehouse fire and explosion at the immense brick warehouse of the International Harvester Company in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

3/9/1914 the Missouri Athletic Club & Bank building fire killed thirty-seven and twenty-nine were injured in St Louis, MO when the seven-story hotel owned by the Boastman’s Bank was completely destroyed around 2:00 a.m.

3/9/1937 Cuyahoga Falls, OH firefighter “suffered gas inhalation while fighting a fire and died of a heart attack on his way home the following morning.”

3/9/1965 a Peterborough, Ontario, Canada firefighter “died in a fire at the Bad Boy’s Store on George Street.”

3/9/1978 a Cornwall, Canada firefighter died at an apartment fire on Second Street West. “On arrival of Pump 4, found heavy smoke showing from the second floor of a three-story building.

3/9/2008 a Val-Des-Mont, Quebec, Canada firefighter died fighting a house fire. “When firefighters arrived, they found it difficult to access the burning house because of two feet of snow.

New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources, Area Form, Peterborough Downtown Historic District, June 2010, page 122