Last week, Raleigh City Council approved via consent agenda the purchase of a site for relocating Fire Station 23. Pictured are excerpts from the meeting agenda packet. Source link is below. The approximately 2.95-acre site is located at 9308 Fairbanks Drive, and the purchase price is $2.24M. The site is 0.2 road miles from current …
Presenting a visual history of Victor Company engine house locations and Raleigh Fire Station 3 locations.
This is a blog version of a Facebook posting from December 29, 2025. Effective January 2, 2026, the Durham Fire Department made a number of operational changes, including activating a new engine company, changing a quint company to a ladder company, and relocating three ladder companies along with other units. Summary New fire company activated, …
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Presenting a visual history of all Raleigh Fire Department fire station relocations. Sources: Base map, legeros.com/ralwake/gallery/maps/raleigh-map.jpg Interactive map, https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1OKMbXpQTvpGWLkEboh3NeKt81W9ByZSk&usp=sharing Source data, https://legeros.com/ralwake/raleigh/stations/
Graphic from FDmaps.com Presenting a list of Greensboro and Guilford County station numbers, before and after the renumbering in 200_. High Point is not included as those station numbers were not changed. Note that ** indicates that the station number was changed. Greensboro
This is a blog version of an earlier Facebook posting. Report from Wake County. On Monday, January 12, 2026, the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Wendell received a presentation from Wake County Fire and Emergency Management about the possibility of a merger of the private, non-profit organization Wendell Fire Department (WFD) with the …
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Wake County history hit. For our Sunday reading, let’s take a deep dive into the story of New Hope Station 2 (now their main station) and Wendell Station 2. Turning the clock back at the fall of 1987, when county commissioners considered proposals to add fire protection to the so-called “no man’s land” in eastern …
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Comparing maps that appeared in a City of Raleigh fire protection planning document in 1970 with other map data: Raleigh projected growth + later/current fire stations (PDF) Wake County rural fire districts + Raleigh annexation history (PDF) Wake County rural fire districts + current fire insurance districts (PDF) Wake County rural fire districts + current …
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Here’s the fire station location analysis for Burlington, NC, that was recently received by city council. See presentation slides + report. (PDF, 40MB)
This is a blog version of a Facebook posting. Last week, the newly completed Raleigh Fire Department Master Plan was presented to city council, a consultant’s report commissioned last year. What’s the historical perspective on such documents? There have been many. Here are the ones that we know about: 1958 – Fire Protection Study 1970 …
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