Seaside Heights Volunteer
Fire Department....
Leonard Ipri, curator of the SHFD museum. Leonard is called "sonny" by...
Mr. Tom Ruetter, who says 90 is the new 80.
Historic Seaside Heights Fires...
THE
1960'S CASINO PIER FIRE. This photo and the photos that follow are part
of the collection on display in the museum of Station 44, The Seaside
Heights Volunteer Fire Department.
2005 is the 50th
anniversary of the
Great Boardwalk fire
of 1955.
THE
GREAT BOARDWALK FIRE OF 1955 from Lincoln and Ocean Terrace.
This spot now houses the
Beachcomber. 
This is from the '55 fire, as is...
this one. The '55 fire happened in June, right at the beginning of the season.
These photos (ADDED APRIL 2006) of the aftermath of the Great Boardwalk Fire of 1955, from the private collection of Mr. Frank Smith, and...
A fire on the wooden bridge, 30's or 40's.
"It
sounded like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building."
The Duggan House/Heffernan Real Estate explosion happened in October '79. The Sunburst
Motel now sits on this site.
May 19, 1983 is when roofers set the Palace Building on fire, threatening the 1910 antique carousel.
December 1988 is when this house at 1108 Barnegat burned, killing a fire year old child.
And the Seaside Hotel burned in the Summer of 2003.
See Nostalgic Station 44 Museum....
