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Noted author and Central Pa. Fire Historian
Dave Houseal's books are available through the museum store.
Morton
(1992) Soft Cover, History of
Harrisburg's Morton Truck& Tractor
Co.
$ 5.00
History of The Harrisburg Volunteer Fire Dept.
(1999) Soft Cover,
$ 15.95
WE CAN SEE IT FROM THE BRIDGE (2005) (2011)
Dave's first real "classic" Unfortunately the hard cover
version is sold out, But a new trade paperback reprint is available $
24.95
WE GOT'EM ON POINT (2008) A great continuation
of more of the great stories told in BRIDGE still available
in hard cover. $ 24.95
THEY COME IN THREES (2011) More
short stories with an emphasis on Dave's volunteer "
Career" Available in hard cover
$ 24.95
Filling out our
shelves
Four
decades ago when the now busy Harrisburg suburban Progress
Fire Company would only catch three or four runs a month,
the leadership was in the process of a major recruiting
drive. The older officers saw a need to get young blood
into the company. This push, resulted in upwards of fifteen
to twenty young men becoming Progress firemen in the late
Sixties and early Seventies. Back then the company didn't
run automatic fire alarms, vehicle crashes or EMS assists so
the majority of those couple of runs a month were generally
working fires of some nature. When the young lads missed a
fire back then it was a real let down and might be a week or
two until the next actual run. And when they mopped around
the firehouse just waiting for that elusive call, veteran
fireman Bob Houseal had two stock cliches he would always
roll out: "Don't worry boy there will always be another
one," and "they come in three." Since Dave's long awaited
new book will be his third hardbound volume of tales of
the Central Pa. fire service, he felt it appropriate to use
one of his dad's old sayings, "They
Come In Threes" as a great title.
Buy Dave's Books at the museum's
book store or at,
Online at thttp://www.dmcfirebooks.com/
see greatest hits
e-mail Mr. Houseal at HFD82@aol.com
Dave Houseal
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