OK. For anyone that is interested in history (I am only slightly), here is a little thing I found a few years ago. But first, the background.
Fire Department Operations & Communications centers, like many places, once used log books to track personnel coming on or going off duty at shift change, major incidents, and general information needed by command staff. Personnel and incident tracking his has been largely replaced by computer systems, even in the smallest departments. Operational details of a fire or a vehicle collision can be accessed in the matter of seconds.
A few years ago, I had a real office. The space had previously been occupied by the fire communications command staff, a Battalion Chief (the rank between Captain and Major in our department.) I was cleaning out a supply closet and discovered a number (many) of the log books sitting in boxes. I started going through them and found some to be quite old. My office mate expressed a desire to have one particular book, the one that was used when he started as a dispatcher, so I found it and gave it to him. I also grabbed two others before sending the rest to the Volunteer Fire Commission, in case they wanted them for historical purposes.
The first book I kept covered October 1982, the day police communications moved into that building with fire communications. I was a police dispatcher at the time. Nothing special but I spent half of my career in that building.
The second has this. It is a simple notation that the stations' sirens were sounded.
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