Three fire poles in central Topeka‘s Fire Station No. 4 provide firefighters a quick way to slide from their quarters on that building’s second floor down to its first floor. This week‘s History Guy video at CJOnline tells how that station at 813 S.W. Clay was added four months ago to the National Register of Historic Places. A state board then recommended this month that the city’s Fire Station No. 7 at 1215 S.W. Oakley Ave. also be added to that list. Firefighters continue to work out of both stations. Those stations were constructed after Topeka voters in 1926 approved a bond issue authorizing funding to improve the city‘s firefighting capabilities and build new stations to accommodate Topeka‘s expansion to the west. Fire Station No. 4 was constructed in 1927 to replace a station that had been at the same site since 1892, the city said in a news release last October.