1940s Houston Fire Department Watch Office Greeting Card

This is the Watch Office at the Houston Fire Department as it would look in the 1940s. The card file on the left is a directory to look up where a given call box is when a fire is called in. The Log book would be where all activities were recorded. This Watch Office would be manned 24/7 by firefighters at the fire station. When a call came in, it would be the job of whoever was on watch to ring the bell and wake everyone up to go respond to the fire.

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