Visual History of Raleigh Fire Stations – Victory Company + Hose / Engine 3
Presenting a visual history of Victor Company engine house locations and Raleigh Fire Station 3 locations.
Archive of posts filed under the History category.
Wanted – Lists of Fire Alarm Box Locations
Got alarm box lists? Been meaning to build this, repository of alarm box listings from around North Carolina. Here’s our starter collection. Drop a line, send a message, will take anything/everything. No hurry. Thanks in advance.
Asheville Fireworks Store Explosion – December 24, 1936
This is part two of a multi-part series about fireworks incidents and disasters in North Carolina. Read others: Part 1 Part 2 – Asheville Fireworks Store Explosion – December 24, 1936 See source materials in this Google Drive folder. Asheville Fireworks Store Explosion December 24, 1936 On Christmas Eve, 1936, around 10:13 p.m., a fireworks …
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Topsail Island Pier Fire – May 17, 1984
This is a blog version of a Facebook posting from July 28, 2026. See the source posting for many reader memories. Evening history. More Topsail Island. Let’s go back to Thursday, May 17, 1984, and the fire that destroyed Paradise Pier on West Onslow Beach. Built in [goes here], the 650-foot long pier was a …
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Topsail Island (and More) Fire and Rescue History
Presenting a history of fire and rescue services on Topsail Island as well as selected nearby fire and rescue departments in Pender and Onslow counties. View visual history: JPG | PDF Read research notes (PDF) View various newspaper clippings in this Google Drive folder. Web page home page Social Postings Legeros Fire Line on Facebook – Search …
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Visual History of Raleigh Fire Station Relocations
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/
Holly Shelter Forest Fire – May 1986
Remembering the major wildland fire in May 1986, that burned some 73,000 acres in the Holly Shelter area of Pender county, and during a period of severe drought. One of North Carolina’s largest wildfires of the decade, it threatened numerous homes and closed portions of U.S. 17 and N.C. 210. It required extensive use of …
Dixie Fireworks Company Explosion – Zebulon, NC – October 26, 1939
This is part one of a multi-part series about fireworks incidents and disasters in North Carolina. Read others: Part 2 Part 1 – Dixie Fireworks Company Explosion – Zebulon, NC – October 26, 1939 See source materials in this Google Drive folder. Background On October 12, 1937, the Zebulon Record ran a front-page story that …
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Brunswick County EMS and Rescue Squad History
Presenting research notes and more on the history of rescue services and EMS in Brunswick County. Resources View family tree graphic: JPG | PDF Read research notes (PDF) View various newspaper clippings in Google Drive folder. See more Legeros EMS histories. Related Social Postings Legeros Fire Line on Facebook – Search For “Brunswick” Examples: Oak Island EMS – Old …
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Long Beach Rescue Squad History
This is a blog version of a Facebook posting from September 10, 2022. Early history of Long Beach Rescue Squad on Oak Island. From Wolfgang Furstenau’s 1995 book “Long Beach – A North Carolina Town: Its Origin and History,” from a copy in the collection of the North Carolina Heritage and Government Library in Raleigh. …