History Blog 

From the Oct. 5, 1956, Hannibal Courier-Post: Two firemen climb a ladder to a height of more than 50 feet with no support but anchor...

Photo of 1233 Market Street, Hannibal, taken Saturday morning, Dec. 26, 2015, following the Christmas Eve fire. MARY LOU MONTGOMERY MARY...

Elwena Barrett Carr, president of the Class of 1939, Eugene Field Junior High School, is pictured in this 1939 photo of the girls'...

Del Anderson of Odgen, Utah, shared a copy of the certificate naming G.A. Ayres chief of the Hannibal Fire Department, date: June 1,...

I stopped by Beth-Haven Nursing Home today to pick up my fire department scrapbook that I loaned to former Hannibal fireman Joe Farrell a...

My brother, Becker Spaun, reminded me that this historic building in the 100 block of South Fourth Street served a special purpose during...

When Joe Farrell of Hannibal, Mo., was a young firefighter working at Station One on South Fourth Street - working shifts of 24 hours on...

By MARY LOU MONTGOMERY “Cleo Kennedy died on the South Side. I was the oldest sleeper and I got his regular job. “When Chief Gwinner...

Today's firefighters ride in enclosed cabs when en route to a fire. That wasn't the case back in the 1940s, when Joe Farrell was a...

Joe Farrell, who joined the Hannibal Fire Department as a "sleeper" while still in high school in 1939, talks firefighting with Mark...