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AT THE FORKS OF THE GRAND Skea, A. Fraser, J. Granton, John Graham, John Sinclair, Lloyd Lawrason, J. McWilliams, John Brennan, Thos. Tate, Archie Fraser, W. Khol, and Sidney Armitage. For a number of years, fire-reels were kept at the Town Hall and at three small stations - one on Willow Street, one at the corner of Grand River and Mechanic Streets, and one at the Junction. But about 19o7 these reels were discarded and a horse-drawn reel was bought and kept at the present fire-hall. When an alarm was given, a team of horses would come on the gallop from the livery stable of Knill and Gourlay and be hitched to the reel-wagon. In January, 198, the modern scientific-age of fire-fighting in Paris was ushered in by Mayor C. B. Robinson. He was largely responsible for the buying of a motorized fire-wagon - a Ford Model T one-ton truck, bought for $2300, and capable of speeding to a fire at fifteen miles an hour. When this snorting engine first roared from its lair, Parisians felt that the flame-dragons would henceforth slink away in terror before a mightly onslaught. First motorized fire-truck, 1918. Mayor C. B. Robinson on left. 130 I