Browse Items (2 total)

  • Tags: Will Platt

Photographs of Will Platt

http://omeka.decaturlibrary.org/files/original/134a18c0af5ae494a46a2c994007b01e.jpg
Photographs of Will Platt; died March 12, 1948; married to Gertrude Ruthrauff. Decatur fire chief from June, 1933 to 1941 when he retired. Served 49 years and 2 months with fire department; first appointed in March, 1892.

Photograph of Fire Truck Designed by Fire Chief

http://omeka.decaturlibrary.org/files/original/0f616124c42b8dbff1874a88bf3348f4.jpg
Photograph of a fire truck designed by Fire Chief Will Platt of Decatur. Costing nearly $17,000 and weighing almost 8 tons, the truck embodied a radical change in cab style and equipment. Seven men, including the driver, rode in the cab; none on the…