{"id":711,"date":"2013-08-27T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.presqueisle.lib.me.us\/wordpress\/?page_id=711"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T20:34:37","slug":"village-fire-corporation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/publications\/pi-fire-dept-records\/village-fire-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Village Fire Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 1886 to 1915, Presque Isle had a private fire department.\u00a0 It was created by businessmen as a response to the fires that had destroyed most of downtown PI.\u00a0 The company sold &#8220;insurance&#8221; to those wishing to be protected.\u00a0 The file link below is to a large pdf(25mb).\u00a0 As time permits, the book will be available in a more easily accessible form.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-algori-pdf-viewer-block-algori-pdf-viewer\"><iframe class=\"wp-block-algori-pdf-viewer-block-algori-pdf-viewer-iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/wp-content\/plugins\/algori-pdf-viewer\/dist\/web\/viewer.html?file=http%3A%2F%2Fhistory.pilib.org%2Fdocuments%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F08%2FVillage-Corporation.pdf\" style=\"width:600px;height:800px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1886 to 1915, Presque Isle had a private fire department.\u00a0 It was created by businessmen as a response to the fires that had destroyed most of downtown PI.\u00a0 The company sold &#8220;insurance&#8221; to those wishing to be protected.\u00a0 The file link below is to a large pdf(25mb).\u00a0 As time permits, the book will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/publications\/pi-fire-dept-records\/village-fire-corporation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Village Fire Corporation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":704,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711\/revisions\/989"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.pilib.org\/documents\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}