History of Owings Mills Volunteer Fire Company - 1950's

In the 1950's, the training programs were intensified, particularly with regards to the use of face masks and fog streams and Baltimore County paid fire department was rapidly acquiring new prestige in training and equipment. This decade had also retired the original 1924 engine shortly after the Mack Pumper was put into service. Two additional updated pieces of equipment were purchased and replaced the Dodge Tanker and the LaFrance Cities Service Truck. The new apparatus consisted of a Ford Four Wheel Drive Tanker and a Maxim "Quint" Combination Pumper and 65 foot Aerial Ladder Truck.