Bought
for use on the scene of some of Brew City's biggest fires, Milwaukee
Fire Department Ambulance No. 1 could handle the heat - even the heat of
the Texas sun, under which it spent its retirement. But it belonged
back in Milwaukee, and to Milwaukee it has recently returned, where,
refurbished, it will go on display in this summer's Milwaukee
Masterpiece.
Though it's hard to imagine today, ambulances with life-support
equipment are a relatively modern phenomenon (born from combat medical
experience in Korea and Vietnam), as is the idea of a centralized
emergency response number like 911.
See a classic restoration done right on Hemmings Daily.
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Milwaukee Fire Department’s First Ambulance, a 1947 Cadillac Sayers & Scovill
