{"id":187215,"date":"2023-10-19T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=187215"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:28:39","slug":"canadian-fire-fighters-museum-finds-long-term-home-in-cobourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/canadian-fire-fighters-museum-finds-long-term-home-in-cobourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Fire Fighters Museum finds long-term home in Cobourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cobourg Fire Fighters Museum, willing to sign a 20-year lease, will have a new home at the Cobourg Memorial Arena.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the arena closed in 2019, museum officials approached the Town of Cobourg about becoming the new tenant. Council considered multiple groups and chose the Fire Fighters Museum, which has been without a home for five years since it was forced out of its former Port Hope location due to the ongoing low level radioactive waste cleanup.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Renovations will still be required to insulate the arena and bring it up to current accessibility standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the agreement hasn\u2019t been signed, the museum was granted access to the arena until next June to hold fundraisers, such as Sunday\u2019s Northumberland Antique\/Vintage Show and Sale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Will Lambert, former chair and current curator, said a large space for its collection and one that could be open year-round rather than the seasonal operation in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI know we\u2019ve been shuttered for five years, but we are not going away. We are going to come back bigger and better than ever,\u201d Lambert said. \u201cWe have an amazing collection. Even though we\u2019ve been closed over the last five years, we\u2019ve continued to add to the collection. We\u2019re now up to 14 fire trucks and just tons of other stuff. We have six storage locations right now - we\u2019re jammed full - so we can put on an amazing national-calibre collection and we can make this thing fly. We can run it year-round and we can make it really special.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition to fire trucks, the museum has a collection of uniforms and shoulder patches from departments across the country, hand tools, radios and more.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's a huge collection and its got tons of room to grow because it is coast-to-coast,\" Lambert said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the audio report below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cobourg Fire Fighters Museum, willing to sign a 20-year lease, will have a new home at the Cobourg Memorial Arena.\u00a0 After the arena closed in 2019, museum officials approached the Town of Cobourg about becoming the new tenant. Council considered multiple groups and chose the Fire Fighters Museum, which has been without a home&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":187221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[18936,25834,28313,2987],"radio":[25167],"origine":[267,25406,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188103,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187215\/revisions\/188103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187215"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=187215"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=187215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}