{"id":3415,"date":"2018-06-24T06:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T10:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:27:50","slug":"durham-city-county-history-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/durham-city-county-history-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham City\/County Fire Merger&#8230; Visualized!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 1, 2018, Durham County Fire Rescue will consolidate with the Durham Fire Department. County personnel will transfer to the city, along with a number of apparatus and vehicles. And two county fire stations will become city stations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below is a visual story of the merger. Includes both the pre-history of Bethesda and Parkwood, notes on DFD history, and what&#8217;s happening effective July 1. Such as Durham adding a fourth battalion, a shift commander, and other changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See also this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/durham-city-county-fire-merger\/\">blog posting from February<\/a>\u00a0for more details. Or this new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/history\/durham\/\">Durham city\/county fire history page<\/a>\u00a0of mine, which includes photo tours of all five county fire stations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/history\/charts\/content\/durham-family-tree.jpg\">View as JPG<\/a>\u00a0 (1.4 MB) | <a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/history\/charts\/content\/durham-family-tree.pdf\">View as PDF<\/a>\u00a0(1.4 MB)<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/history\/charts\/\">more history charts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-06-18-durham-chart.jpg\" alt=\"2018-06-18-durham-chart\" width=\"400\" height=\"700\" \/><\/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%2Fdurham-city-county-history-chart%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"3415\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Durham City\/County Fire Merger... 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