{"id":2515,"date":"2017-08-04T07:34:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2017-08-04T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:43:53","slug":"history-of-greensboro-high-point-airport-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/history-of-greensboro-high-point-airport-fire-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Early History of Greensboro-High Point Airport Fire Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

For your weekend reading, let’s tool over to the Triad, for an early history of the Greensboro-High Point airport fire department<\/a>. And an early history of Guilford County Fire Services, which provided the “crash crew” staffing\u00a0starting in 1966.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The story starts in 1962, with the deadly crash of a military transport and the resulting criticism of the airport\u2019s firefighting capabilities. The plane crash, that killed seven servicemen including the cousin of the governor, brought attention to a problem… that was already being addressed.<\/p>\n

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As the local newspapers soon reported,\u00a0a committee was already examining the issue of the airport\u2019s fire protection, and in particular preparation for new FAA regulations that were forthcoming.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New apparatus was soon purchased, including one of only eight American LaFrance Airport Chief crash trucks ever\u00a0built. Full-time firefighters were hired and an airport fire station building was erected.<\/p>\n

The new fire station also the county fire marshal\u2019s office and a communication center for the dispatching of the rural fire departments in Guilford County. Fire support vehicles, for use county-wide, were later housed there, including units for disaster and oil spill responses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Here’s the new site:\u00a0www.legeros.com\/history\/stories\/pti-airport<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click around, see what you think. And please pass along comments, corrections, edits, and inputs. Or any other photos, worth adding.<\/p>\n

Sources, you ask? Did this required a ton of driving between Greensboro and Raleigh? Negative and just the opposite. Most was done via NewsBank, which brokers the digital archives of the Greensboro News-Record. Very affordable rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n