VIDEO: Off-duty Bangor firefighters spent their Sunday morning cleaning up a Bangor staple - the Hose 5 Fire Museum on State Street.
Crews were doing some sprucing up in anticipation of their open house on Saturday, June 15th.
The Hose 5 Fire Museum was built in 1897 and was used for nearly 100 years before the replacement station was built on Hogan Road.
Today, the former station now houses the city-operated museum.
It’s a special place not just for the Bangor Fire Department but the entire city of Bangor.
“The Hose 5 Fire Museum is a hidden treasure,” said Bangor’s Assistant Fire Chief, Chandler Corriveau. “We have artifacts and antique equipment that is irreplaceable. A lot of it is from the City of Bangor. We have three trucks in here, all from the city of Bangor. A couple of them are privately owned. Two of them the city still owns. There’s a whole bunch of equipment, photographs, old antique fire equipment, fire extinguishers, that sort of thing.”