When I spoke with the Carnegie librarian and mentioned maybe moving the monument, she just about flipped out. It's interesting dealing with such a real site and with things that people feel very passionate about. Evidently it was a BIG deal to get the monument moved from the cemetery where it stood for a long time to this park. it's now chained off so people can't stand on it or do anything else to it- i guess there was some vandalism at one time.
You can see the pictures above the ceremony that took place in 1996 when it was moved. The building that's now the children's museum was the fire station for a long time, so this definitely needs to stay in the plaza and in a prominent place to honor the memory of these firefighters and appease the folks in the city who vigilantly hold on to tradition and artifact.
The bell and monument both I think could be repositioned and given greater honor and purpose than they currently have- the monument doesn't really say much about its purpose and the bell is just there to ring- no historic reference to what it actually was at one time.
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