[Five volunteer firemen at 1940 annual parade]

Five elderly firemen with bouquets and horns standing together at annual parade in Brooklyn Heights. Caption: "Wearing their white fire helmets, insignia of their chief's office, and carrying their trumpets, the heads of four of the five exempt volunteer firemen's groups of the old City of Brooklyn and former Borough President Alfred E. Steers, president of the Kings County Volunteer Firemen's Association, marched in the 49th annual Washington's Birthday parade yesterday...."