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Volunteer Ventures

• Information Stations

  Design information stations that could be either attached to walls or be free standing that would hold two an opened notebook of self-guided-tour information at each designated station along a tour route.

• Collections list

  Update the computer catalogue inventory of display items in the museum.

• Fire Patch Boards

  Catalogue the fire patches on the museum walls and make a database so that patches from various departments can be found.

• MN Fire Patches

  We have a number of additional patches that we’ve collected that should be included on the MN Patch Board. Figure out a way to rearrange them to include the new patches on the display.

• Switches & Lights

  Figure out safe ways that we could have some working switches on the Ward LaFrance pumper and also in the enclosed tiller cab so that kids could turn on lights, turn signals and other emergency-type devices (no sirens, unless they could be low-volume electronic devices that would be heard in the cab only). Maybe even have the radio microphone in the WLF connected to a station (at the cash register possibly) that could talk back to kids in the cab.

• St. Paul Switchboard

  Hook up at least a few lines on the old St. Paul FD switchboard that could be used to receive phone calls reporting fires into the board. Hook up some of the toggle switches into a map above the board with lights that would show company locations. Hook the telegraph key on the board into one of the alarm board circuits to activate the bells & lights on the old alarm circuit board standing adjacent. Maybe have a gong hooked up to the orange key on the switchboard for dispatching alarms to the stations (with a hidden switch to de-activate).

• Pluggy Fire Hydrant

  Train at least a few museum volunteers to operate remote control “Pluggy the Fire Hydrant” on Saturdays for museum visitors. Have a way to re-charge the batteries at the museum between uses.

• Hazard House

  We need additional volunteers (possibly retired or active firefighters) to learn to use the hazard house to teach young families about home fire safety, fire prevention, operation E.D.I.T.H., and having a safe place for the entire family to meet once outside the house.

• Firefighter Photos

  We have hundreds of photos with identified firefighters that need cataloguing. The big boards in the main hall have already been catalogued in a database, but there are many photos in notebooks in the library and in individual photos hung in various places around the museum that need to be added to the database.

• Library Organization

  Better book organization needed to put books in various categories (apparatus books, general history books, hand-drawn apparatus books, horse-drawn books, books on major catastrophes, etc). Once reorganized, have plates made to indicate categories. Catalogue fire department history books and check to see if there are any other history books available that the museum is missing and find out if they may be reasonably obtained.

• Attic Organization

  The museum attic is full of boxes of all kinds of memorabilia that needs to be organized, numbered and then categorized.

• Collections

  The Past Perfect Museum software program has a place to record all of the collections now in the fire museum. Many of these items are now listed in a Word for Windows program that needs to be converted and put into the Past Perfect Museum program. The items in the west gallery were not included in this Word for Windows document.

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