This section displays old & vintage fire equipments, pictures, publications and artefacts.
Left above: The oldest object in the museum: a swob mop used to extinguish flames. (19th century)
Middle: Rusted-through chemical fire extinguisher from the 1920s/30s, discovered in a remote and long-abandoned building complex that had served as an old people's home and an asylum. Maalahti, Finland.
Right: A primitive dry powder fire extinguisher Branus, manufactured in the Netherlands. (The tube)
Below: A so-called Nazi-type fire helmet from Finland (1950s).
Right :A gift article (liquor bottle) from Finland that imitates a spool of rescue rope, a standard item in a fireman's personal gear.
Above: A French toy fire engine from 1950's
FBU Miniature helmet/paperweight/gift object, Fire Brigade Union (UK).
British die cast rescue toys, 1940's
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Finnish fire department board game from 1950's
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Helsinki city fire department, Ambulance ticket 2,50 marks, 1960's
4 Firefighting Technology Past and Present,
children's collectible cards
from the former German Democratic Republic.
Ambulance blanket from Helsinki with red cross and text: Fire Department
Plastic ambulances, manufactured somewhere in Eastern Europe
during the socialistic era
Helsinki firemen photographed in the backyard of Kallio Fire Station, 1940's
(Photo: Helsinki Rescue dept.)
"The little fire guard" educational colouring book for children
Fire officer, a miniature bronze sculpture from Hungary
A German nazi era training booklet for Fire Service,
part 1: Supression Attack
Berlin 1939
Finnish collectible gard from the coffee package, 1950's
Volunteer Fire Brigade III medal (Finland)
Toy fireman from early 1960's (Germany)
Showbox D
American type ladder pumper, tin toy from 1960's (Made in Japan)
Finnish fire helmet, made of steel 1950's
Scale model of old fire station with fire engines from 1950's
