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HOT PROPERTY-Richard Wilson, a retired assistant chief with the Ventura County Fire Department, stands beside a hand-drawn water hose cart used by firemen in the late 1920s. The hose cart is one of nearly a hundred artifacts on display in a historical exhibit at the department's headquarters in Camarillo. Collectively they document the department's expansion from the days of its first fire wardens.
HOT PROPERTY-Richard Wilson, a retired assistant chief with the Ventura County Fire Department, stands beside a hand-drawn water hose cart used by firemen in the late 1920s. The hose cart is one of nearly a hundred artifacts on display in a historical exhibit at the department's headquarters in Camarillo. Collectively they document the department's expansion from the days of its first fire wardens.
