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This January 1, 1933, photograph captures a firefighting reenactment, held to celebrate the Seventy-Fifth anniversary of the Young American Engine Company Number Six. In the wake of a November 1852 fire that destroyed 70 percent of the central city, Sacramentans were keenly attuned to the need for a well-trained constellation of fire units. One of these was the Young American Engine Company Number Six, which took up its 917 Tenth Street location on New Year’s Day 1858. The two-story, brick structure housed Young America until September 1872. During that time, the station’s bell was sounded at news of both the election and assassination of Abraham Lincoln as well as the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. Changing hands several times thereafter, the building was finally razed in 1941.
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