Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the last time a horse-drawn steam fire apparatus ... But on Dec. 30, 1924, Engine Company No. 18 was the last to respond to a real fire in Washington, D.C ...

It is a combination of the well-known and extensively used endless j apron horse ... the hand engine and the expensive steam fire-engine. Its lightness enables it to be rapidly drawn to a fire ...

This steam fire engine was horse drawn. It was used for transferring water from lakes on the Tehidy Estate in Cornwall. Nowadays fire engines have an emergency response of just minutes from the ...