{"id":268,"date":"2010-10-23T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-11-21T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T15:53:42","slug":"the-modern-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Fire Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Jim Perkins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=259\">whose sharp eye caught the date error on our photograph of the 1902 Joplin Fire Department<\/a>, are three photographs from the Joplin Fire Department&#8217;s past.\u00a0 Below are photographs of some of the first motorized fire fighting apparatuses in the nation.\u00a0 Specifically, is a photo of the Joplin Goat and two of the Webb Engine.\u00a0 All three were the creations of Al Webb, who had a mechanics shop not far from the Joplin Fire Department headquarters (city hall &#8211; which these are parked in front of).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The arrival of these machines helped usher in a new age of firefighting and literally set out to pasture the fire horses they replaced.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/5107126029\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joplin Goat\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1401\/5107126029_99387ef36f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Joplin Goat, courtesy of Jim Perkins.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/5107723716\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Webb Engine\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1082\/5107723716_baf7481b82.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Webb Engine, courtesy of Jim Perkins.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/5107723644\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Webb Engine\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1372\/5107723644_9cc9035618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Webb Engine, courtesy of Jim Perkins.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: The Jim Perkins Collection<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Jim Perkins, whose sharp eye caught the date error on our photograph of the 1902 Joplin Fire Department, are three photographs from the Joplin Fire Department&#8217;s past.\u00a0 Below are photographs of some of the first motorized fire fighting apparatuses in the nation.\u00a0 Specifically, is a photo of the Joplin Goat and two of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[1113,120,328,112,113,31,1115,1112,1114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}