Wake County Fire History – Closures & Mergers

For your Sunday evening enjoyment, here’s a grab bag of historical bits, about fire station closures and fire department mergers in Raleigh and Wake County.

There have been but a handful of note.

Closures

(Not counting station re-locations within 2.5 miles)

  • 1960 – Western Boulevard FD
  • 1982 – Wake Forest FD #2
  • ca. 1992 – Durham Highway FD – Station 1 on Davis Drive
  • 1993 – Raleigh FD – Station 4 on Wake Forest Road
  • 2008 – Western Wake FD – Station 2 on Chapel Hill Road, old Yrac FD

Mergers

(Not counting rural department mergers with their respective municipalities, or vice versa)

  • 2002 – Six Forks FD > Bay Leaf FD
  • 2013 – Falls FD > Wake Forest FD

The document pulls heavily from the 2004 TriData study and Wake County Fire Commission minutes over the years.

Take a look, see what you think, and what ways the document could be made better. Such as, perhaps, splitting closures and mergers into separate sections.

View the history page.

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