Twenty Years Ago
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. Found in my files. Twenty years ago last month, a burgeoning fire historian (and future blogger) was feeling his way around this thing called the Wake County Fire Commission.
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. Found in my files. Twenty years ago last month, a burgeoning fire historian (and future blogger) was feeling his way around this thing called the Wake County Fire Commission.
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. New chart, high-level history of fire service governance in Wake County. Source are these lengthy research notes (PDF). See also this history chart of all Wake County fire departments.
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. We recently received and digitized a pair of program books from the Great American Firehouse Exposition and Muster South, held in Charlotte in May 1988 and May 1989. Both are fabulous snapshots of the late eighties fire service. They were gifted by a fellow history …
The Wake County Fire Commission will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, July 13, 2023, at 6:00 p.m., at the Wake County Emergency Services Education Center, 221 S. Rogers Lane, Raleigh, NC 27610. View agenda and meeting documents.
The first fire department building in Wrightsville Beach was located in the 400 block of Waynick Boulevard, along with the police department, town hall, and coast guard station. Building erected in [goes here] Fire chief had residence upstairs Town hall and police station was next door. The original building was a small, wood frame cottage …
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Listening to audio recording. Two alarms were struck in Raleigh on Thursday, June 16, 2023, at a challenging high-life hazard structure fire at 1810 N. New Hope Road, at an assisted living facility. One-story brick and frame structure with 30,567 square-feet. Built 2001. Dispatched 2:49 p.m. EMS unit already on scene for another call reported …
Here’s a chart of milestones of the Raleigh Fire Department, created in 2013 for the Raleigh Fire Museum. View as PDF.
This is a blog version of a Facebook posting from April 2021. New from the Legeros History Labs. Each and every iteration of city fire stations with multiple versions. Plus the training tower and shop. Plus pics of all the one-and-done (to date) stations. View JPG | PDF See other visual histories
This is an updated version of a blog archives posting from April 2011. Let’s go back in time to 1976, when city and county officials were working to provide a better level of emergency medical service to residents of Raleigh and its suburban areas outside the city limits. Funeral homes hadn’t transported patients for about …
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This is a work in progress Here’s a database of fire apparatus built by Emergency Equipment Inc. (EEI) in Raleigh, NC, as compiled by Jon Umbdenstock of Durham, NC. View the database More Information For more about EEI and its predecessors Atlas Steel and Alexander Welding, read these research notes. See also the Facebook group …
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