Title	Fire Department - 2
Photographer	Unknown
Date created	circa 1942-1945
Description	Fire and safety were two major concerns at Amache. The barrack rooms were heated with coal, a product unfamiliar to the California evacuees, so fire was always a concern. Inadequate wiring was also a concern as evacuees who tried to use irons and other electrical appliances in their rooms would cause overloaded circuits to blow a fuse and sometimes create fires. The fire department at Amache consisted of a WRA fire chief, an evacuee fire chief, three assistant chiefs, six captains and three groups of ten firemen each working the eight hours providing twenty four hour fire protection in the camp.
Type of object	Image
Physical description	1 photograph : b & w ; 20.3 x 27.9 cm
Institution	Sonoma State University Library Rohnert Park, California
Subject (Place)	Amache (Colo.)
Subject (Name)	Amache Relocation Camp Granada Relocation Center
Subject (Topic)	Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Internment of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 Fire deparments Fires
Copyright statement	Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/specialcollections/usingcollections/rights/
Identifier	am3_0013
Original source	Fuchigami, Robert Y.
Source collection	North Bay Ethnic Archive
Digital collection	Camp Amache Digital Collection
Related resoures	http://iii.sonoma.edu/record=b1445694
Related links	http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/wwcod/granada.htm ; http://www.amache.org/
Object form	Photograph
Digital reproduction	Original photograph scanned as a tiff at 400 dpi and 6000 ppi on the long side--Display jpeg set at 400 dpi and 1024 ppi on the long side
Date digitized	2011
Language	eng
Country of creation	U.S.

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