Cudmore: Vivid memories of tragedy at the firemen's convention
Cudmore: Vivid memories of tragedy at the firemen’s convention | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS A reader who chooses to remain anonymous has vivid memories of the tragedy at the New York State Volunteer Firemen’s convention held in Amsterdam in the summer of 1958. Two people died, eight were injured and litigation went on for at least three years following an accident in which the brakes failed on a small fire truck taking part in a firefighting competition at what was Coessens Park in the city’s East End. The fast-moving truck plowed into a group of onlookers. The anonymous reader wrote, ...
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