By Christine Clarridge
The Seattle Times
A lot of things have changed since the first time Joe Epler saw Seattle’s Fire Station 6. He was about 8 years old and rode the cable car from his Leschi home to the Central District station. Back then — Epler is 102 — the fire engines were pulled by horse.
When he joined the Seattle Fire Department in the 1930s, the horses had been replaced by trucks, but the equipment was still “rugged” and the hours were brutal, he said.
“They didn’t have eight-hour shifts in those days,” Epler said. “We worked 14-hour shifts for three weeks.”
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