Robert C Moore Memorial Fire Hall Bell - Cody, WY
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N 44° 31.532 W 109° 03.967
12T E 653672 N 4932064
Fire protection in the city of Cody is headquartered in this large building on Sheridan Avenue, the city's "Main Street", which stands immediately east of the Park County Courthouse.
Waymark Code: WMXYJT
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 03/17/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Mark1962
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It seems that the City of Cody doesn't have a fire department per se, this service being accomplished by the county. The building, to our knowledge the only fire hall in Cody, is quite large, with offices at the south end of the building, seven overhead doors along the east side and five more along the west side.

For the fire protection district as a whole, FireDepartment.net lists a total of six stations in the district, manned by 4 paid personnel and 60 volunteers. There's no mention of their apparatus and Fire Wiki has no entry for the district. The district itself has a web page containing no useful information.

The building itself was raised in 1965 and in 1978 was dedicated in memory of Gary Smith, Fire Chief in 1974-75. At the same time the building was named the Robert C Moore Memorial Fire Hall, in Honour of fallen firefighter Robert Moore, who perished in a fire on May 20, 1974 while attempting to rescue another person, Eric Olson, who was trapped in the basement of the burning building.

In front of the hall a bell is mounted atop a low brick plinth, presumably an old bell from a fire hall of yore. It's a fairly large bell, painted to look like bronze, but we suspect it is cast iron. It's hung from a yoke that is not the original and has no markings on it.
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