Pump Truck Must Have Been the Pride and Joy of Kirkland Firemen Around 1920

David Burr came to Kirkland and purchased the telephone company in 1914, and here he is sometime around 1920 sitting atop a fire pump truck parked on Lake Street in front of Klenert's Meat Market. It might have been Burr's money that paid for the fire truck.

Today the spot is about at the south corner of the new Kirkland 101 building, just south of the intersection of Lake Street and Kirkland Ave.

Standing are Joe Scavella, Jim Reese, Ed Williams and Ed Blau, apparently volunteer firemen. "Burke & Farrar" can be seen on the building in the rear, which was at the corner of Lake Street and Kirkland Ave.