Dear readers, watching the fires trucks rushing to fires in Los Angeles reminded me of the Dalmatian dogs that have been a symbol of firefighters since the 1870s. Originally, the New York Fire ...

The Dalmatian is a sleek and medium-sized ... starting from the era when horses were still used to pull fire engines. The dogs would run ahead of the horses to clear the paths of people and ...

Named for Dalmatia, a region in Croatia on the Adriatic coast, the Dalmatian ... in the fire service, in memory of the key role they once played. Dalmatians are medium-sized dogs.