Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Electric Fire Engines. [ARTICLE]

Electric Fire Engines.

Frank Irvin, a Passaic (N. J.) electrician, is at work on the model of an electric fire engine. He claims that it is practicable to build an engine which will propel itself over the fitroets to the scene 'of a fire and there work the pumps. His idea is to substitute a storage battery for the furnace and boiler nowin use on steam fire engines.