<DIV>Leading the way when any stream of fire trucks responds to an emergency call is the fire chief's car. Up until the turn of the century, fire chiefs rode in horse-drawn buggies -- some departments still refer to the fire chief's car as the "chief's buggy". This entertaining pictorial review begins with those early buggies and progresses through the various automobiles, light-duty trucks, and mobile command posts that have been employed as chiefs' cars during the course of the century. Detailed captions describe the vehicles pictured.