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At pole dance studios as well as gentlemen’s clubs, there’s a fancier version of the move called the fireman’s spin. The pole at the Station 1 is (reportedly) not used for dancing.

We eased into spins with a simple outside step, adding in a back-hook spin at the end. Then we learned a classic fireman spin and eventually worked up to a pole climb, chair spin, mermaid sit, and ...

Guiding us step by step, Sophia talked us through each of our four main moves — extended leg spin, fireman spin, pole pirouette, hip figure eights and a front hook. I was amazed at her ability to slow ...

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But as fire poles began to be phased out, wrote Michelle O’Donnell for The New York Times in 2005, veteran firefighters were unsettled by the change in something they had considered normal.

The Rise of the Fireman’s Pole. Firemen sitting by their pole (1905). In 1736, Benjamin Franklin jump-started the first effort to build formalized firehouses.

In 1880 the Boston Fire Department installed a brass pole, the type still used today. Within a decade, poles stood in firehouses across the nation, and later in Canada, Britain and beyond.