It was also loaded onto a train and traveled to Boston where it was used to fight the Great Boston Fire of 1872 and is credited with saving the South Meeting House, Achilles said.

Photos in the downtown fire station, taken the day the Kearsarge arrived in Market Square, show city firefighters lined up in front of it, depicted in sepia tones that fail to capture the Kearsarge's brass, copper and three shades of red paint. It originally had a companion carriage for hauling hoses but that was lost to time.

The captain headed up the stairs to alert the firefighters. Police were contacted. The man followed the captain and then confronted the firefighters who’d come downstairs.

Speaking unintelligibly, the man appeared irate and began throwing chairs at the firefighters, Holden said.

Firefighters tried to subdue him but he struggled away and ran out through the broken glass door. When he tripped and fell on the street, firefighters held him until officers arrived.

Armando Arenas Altamirano, 27, of Petaluma, was arrested on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon on a firefighter, vandalism, being under the influence of drugs and possessing drug paraphernalia, according to Petaluma police.