Fighting Fires in the Capital City

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Fighting Fires in the Capital City City fires were a big deal in my house. In addition to his fulltime job on the railroad, my father, Harry W. Peifer, was a volunteer firefighter for the Camp Curtin Fire Company in Harrisburg. He began volunteering long before I was born in 1946, and eventually was awarded a fifty-year pin for his service. One of his favorite stories was about a horse that was used to pull the old fire...
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