Friday night history. Then and now photo of old Durham Station 1. Top is Legeros photo from today, bottom is circa 1928. The two-story engine house at 212 N. Mangum Street opened in 1925, and included two front and one side apparatus bay. It was erected on the site of an earlier 1891 fire station, …
Here’s the new “Cary Main” EMS station, activated on April 1, 2021, in old Cary Fire Station 2/Station 9 on Maynard Road. It’s occupied by Wake County EMS, who took over the response area of Cary EMS on that date. See below for summary of new EMS units and locations. Pics from April 2 and …
Random data and graphics play. Building footprints of Raleigh fire stations, created in November 2021. Source files at https://legeros.smugmug.com/Errata/Footprints/
This is an ongoing blog posting about the rebuilding of Fire Station 6. See Legeros updates below. See also ongoing Legeros photos. And here’s the official project site from the city. March 30, 2021 Now Open The City of Raleigh’s newest fire station was placed in service at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, March 29, 2021. Earlier that morning, …
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Research notes on Jacksonville (NC) firehouses, past and present. Station – Mill Avenue at College Street – One-story structure – 1927 to 194_ Station – Court Street at corner of Old Bridge Street – Temporary quarters in building with other occupancies – 194_ to 194_ Station 1 – 119 Chaney Street – 194_ to 1956 …
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Knightdale history bit. Here’s an annotated guide to the town’s first fire station on Hester Street and when each section was added.
This posting will be updated as more information is provided about the operations of the newly expanded Knightdale Fire Department. July 8 Here’s the post-merger list of units and their locations: Engines / Squads E131 – Clifton Street (Sta 1) – 2007 Pierce Contender pumper-tanker, 1250/1000 – Ex-EWFD E132 – Steeple Square (Sta 2) – …
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Here’s another new interactive Google map from the Legeros History Labs, former firehouses of Raleigh and Wake County. View the map.
New from the Legeros History Labs, interactive Google My Maps of former firehouse locations in Guilford County. Linked from a new page of Guilford County fire history research notes.
On May 11, 2020, the City of Raleigh Fire Department opened a training annex at Fire Station 26 on Barwell Road. They’ve occupied the former emergency communications training center and back-up facility, which was a separate section of the fire station building. Station 26 opened in June 2003. The Raleigh/Wake Emergency Communications Center vacated the …
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