{"id":1275,"date":"2016-10-02T20:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T00:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2016-12-31T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:24:07","slug":"wake-county-fire-history-closures-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wake-county-fire-history-closures-mergers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake County Fire History &#8211; Closures &#038; Mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For your Sunday evening enjoyment, here\u2019s a grab bag of historical bits, about <a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/ralwake\/wake\/history\/closures-mergers\/\">fire station closures and fire department mergers<\/a> in Raleigh and Wake County.<\/p>\n<p>There have been but a handful of note.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Closures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Not counting station re-locations within 2.5 miles)<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<ul>\n<li>1960 \u2013 Western Boulevard FD<\/li>\n<li>1982 \u2013 Wake Forest FD #2<\/li>\n<li>ca. 1992 \u2013 Durham Highway FD \u2013 Station 1 on Davis Drive<\/li>\n<li>1993 \u2013 Raleigh FD \u2013 Station 4 on Wake Forest Road<\/li>\n<li>2008 \u2013 Western Wake FD \u2013 Station 2 on Chapel Hill Road, old Yrac FD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mergers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Not counting rural department mergers with their respective municipalities, or vice versa)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2002 \u2013 Six Forks FD &gt; Bay Leaf FD<\/li>\n<li>2013 \u2013 Falls FD &gt; Wake Forest FD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The document pulls heavily from the 2004 TriData study and Wake County Fire Commission minutes over the years.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/ralwake\/wake\/history\/closures-mergers\/\">View the history page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fwake-county-fire-history-closures-mergers%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"1275\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Wake County Fire History - Closures & Mergers\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fwake-county-fire-history-closures-mergers%2F&text=Wake+County+Fire+History+%26%238211%3B+Closures+%26%23038%3B+Mergers\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"1275\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Wake County Fire History - Closures & Mergers\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fwake-county-fire-history-closures-mergers%2F&description=Wake+County+Fire+History+%26%238211%3B+Closures+%26%23038%3B+Mergers\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"1275\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Wake County Fire History - Closures & Mergers\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your Sunday evening enjoyment, here\u2019s a grab bag of historical bits, about fire station closures and fire department mergers in Raleigh and Wake County. 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Closures (Not counting station re-locations within 2.5 miles) 1960 \u2013 Western Boulevard FD 1982 \u2013 Wake Forest FD #2 ca. 1992 \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wake-county-fire-history-closures-mergers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Wake County Fire History &#8211; Closures &#038; Mergers&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fwake-county-fire-history-closures-mergers%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"1275\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Wake County Fire History - Closures & Mergers\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fwake-county-fire-history-closures-mergers%2F&text=Wake+County+Fire+History+%26%238211%3B+Closures+%26%23038%3B+Mergers\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"1275\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Wake County Fire History - Closures & Mergers\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fwake-county-fire-history-closures-mergers%2F&description=Wake+County+Fire+History+%26%238211%3B+Closures+%26%23038%3B+Mergers\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"1275\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Wake County Fire History - Closures & Mergers\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}