The History of Firefighting Section is housed in the former building originally constructed as a horse stables block. The collection was gathered thanks to a collector’s passion of Leon Trybalski, whose family through some generations was connected with the history of the local Firefighting Brigade. This collection has been opened to the public since 1956. In the year 1990 and 1996, after the successive renovation works of the rooms intended for exposing purpose, the exhibition space was widely increased and obtained a present arrangement.

The displayed objects illustrate the history of firefighting brigades in the region of Przeworsk and its environs as well as further parts of Little Poland from their beginning in the mid-19th century until the present time. The remarkable attractiveness of the collection is determined by a large number of various exhibits. Among diverse objects the most noteworthy are ranked wooden portable syringes and four-wheeled horse-drawn sprinkles manufactured by e.g. W. M. Knaust in Vienna, Firefighting Union in Lwów, M. Neumann in Cracow or Bartik Bros. in Tarnów and wooden or brass syringes which were applied to extinguish fire already in the 14th century. Equally interesting is a collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century firemen’s helmets. Among them the noteworthy are parades officers’ helmets, from the period of the Austrian annexation of Poland, presently regarded as a masterpiece of handicraft. Sets of uniforms, distinctions, honours and medals are displayed very rich. In the space of years they distinguished firefighters from other people taking part in fire extinguishing actions. The exhibition presents extinguishing equipment of various kind such as hooters, fire hoses, floaters, suction heads, nozzles; life-saving equipment: firefighting belts, carabiners, rescue ropes, forcibly opening tools: axes, fire hooks; various ladders, lighting equipment and also fire alarm signals such as hooters, gongs, trumpets etc.

The exhibition presents extinguishing equipment of various kind such as hooters, fire hoses, floaters, suction heads, nozzles; life-saving equipment: firefighting belts, carabiners, rescue ropes, forcibly opening tools: axes, fire hooks; various ladders, lighting equipment and also fire alarm signals such as hooters, gongs, trumpets etc. A complement of this particularly rich collection presents a contemporary fire extinguishing equipment, however replaced by the hi-tech generation tools, which was applied by highly-trained rescue brigades. It doesn’t have to many similarities with the simplest objects used at the beginning of voluntary fire brigades associated at the St Florian Unions.

While visiting the exhibition of the History of Firefighting Section, we have a great opportunity to become acquainted with unusual progress of the rescue techniques that took place in the space of 150 years.