The following "fire calls" were
answered by the Raleigh Fire Department in the early 1950s.
- 4/23/50 - Forest fire - Outside city limits
- 5/25/50 - Service station, total loss - Ten miles outside city
- 6/11/50 - Stewart's Barbeque, total loss - Outside city
- 6/13/50 - Feed barn, total loss - Outside city
- 6/19/50 - Feed barn, total loss - Knightdale
- 6/25/50 - Radio smoking, no damage - 608 W. Johnson St.
- 7/3/50 - Lady tried to mail letter in [fire] box - Morgan and Snow
- 7/7/50 - Johnson Lumber Company - Garner
- 8/17/50 - Washing up lime on street - Fayetteville and Davie
- 8/18/50 - Plane, emergency landing - Raleigh / Durham Airport
- 8/19/50 - [ Ditto ]
- 8/20/50 - Planes leaving airport - Raleigh / Durham Airport
- 8/26/50 - Auburn, NC - Outside city
- 8/27/50 - Man drowned - Neuse River
- 8/30/50 - Creedmoor, NC [ !? ] - Outside city
- 9/20/50 - Rescued dog - 1511 N. Blount St.
- 10/14/50 - Umbrella burning, no damage - 106 Vance Apts.
- 10/29/50 - Baby carriage, no damage - 320 Carver St.
- 11/23/50 - Rescued cat - 2240 The Circle
- 12/5/50 - Knightdale - Outside city
- 1/6/51 - Flooded floor furnace - 2018 Wake Forest Rd.
- 1/14/51 - Hot water in canteen, no damage - State Hospital
- 1/22/51 - Wake Forest, NC - Outside city
- 1/27/51 - Forest fire, no damage to houses - Outside city
- 2/22/51 - Card table fire, no damage - 1102 S. Person St.
- 3/9/51 - Prunes burned on stove, no damage - 501 Polk St.
- 3/25/51 - Helped police department - Wilmington St.
- 3/31/51 - Rescue drowned man - Outside City
- 4/11/51 - Woman gassed herself to death - 1223 Pearce St.
- 5/12/51 - Get cat out of tree - 1422 Canterbury
- 6/4/51 - Ironing board fire - 915 New Bern Ave.
- 6/7/51 - Unlock apartment - 440 Dixie Trail
- 6/13/51 - Put rope in flag pole - Methodist Orphanage
- 6/18/51 - Pumped water from Water Follies tank - Riddick Stadium
- 6/20/51 - Put in light bulbs - Pullen Park
- 6/26/51 - Got snake from car - 318 S. Person St.
- 6/26/51 - Man drowned - Weldon Mason's Pond near Wake Forest
- 6/28/51 - Remove refrigerator from house (gas pipes bursted) -
State College
- 7/15/51 - Tobacco barn, total loss - Wilder's Grove
- 7/26/51 - Two children drowned - Knightdale
- 7/29/51 - Tobacco barn, total loss - Eight miles out Louisburg Rd.
- 8/7/51 - City bus, hot brakes - Hillsboro and Horne
- 8/8/51 - Awning on fire - Capital Club Building
- 8/8/51 - Tobacco barn, minor damage - Silver Lakes
- 9/9/51 - Washed up milk - Franklin and Person
- 9/11/51 - Tobacco barn, total loss - Nine miles out Poole Rd.
- 9/13/51 - [Woman] gassed herself - 116 N. Dawson St.
- 9/16/51 - Burned chicken on stoop - 1116 S. East St.
- 9/30/51 - Stand by for air show - Raleigh Municipal Airport
- 10/5/51 - Put in lights - Tabernacle Church
- 10/13/51 - Pack house, total loss - Old Stage Road
- 10/16/51 - Let small boy out of bathroom - 2713 Clark Ave.
- 10/27/51 - Carried refrigerator out of house - 1301 Rhamkatte Road
- 11/2/51 - Two men killed on wires - Highway 70 outside city
- 11/20/51 - Quilt on fire - 722 S. State St.
- 11/27/51 - Let girl out of bathroom - 2514 Beachridge Rd.
- 12/10/51 - Get ball out of drain - 1421 Duplin Rd.
- 12/13/51 - Chair fire - 323 Hillsboro St.
- 12/16/51 - Cut off ammonia tanks - Halifax St.
- 12/23/51 - Towel on fire - Sir Walter Hotel
- 12/28/51 - Stand by while pumping gas tanks - N. Harrington St.
- 1/1/52 - Get cat out of tree - 3331 White Oak Road
- 1/5/52 - Remove broken limb from tree - Glenwood and Harvey
- 1/31/52 - Let man out of house - 2400 Fairview Road
- 2/5/52 - Get man off tower - State Hospital
- 2/11/52 - Find child lost in woods - Glouster Street
- 2/18/52 - Stand by for [aircraft] landing - Raleigh / Durham
Airport
- 3/5/52 - Get cat off roof - 1114 Harvey St.
- 3/7/52 - Meat on stove - 3. Person St.
- 3/13/52 - Install chain on flag pole - Myrtle Underwood School
- 3/20/52 - Forest fire - Rose Lane (out of city)
- 4/1/52 - Man having heart attack - 1212 Brooks Ave.
- 4/17/52 - Get cat out of sewer - 2508 Beechridge
- 4/17/52 - Rescue child from statue - Fayetteville and Morgan
Streets
- 4/20/52 - Stump on fire - Maple Tourist Home
- 5/6/52 - Woman dead on [arrival] - Hudson and McCarthy
- 5/8/52 - Cross burning - Georgetown and Pershing
- 5/14/52 - Peanuts burning in stove - State College
- 6/5/52 - Cookies in stove - 1108 Smithfield St.
- 6/11/52 - Beans on stove, no damage - 401 S. McDowell St.
- 6/24/52 - Washed up ammonia in street - 100 block E. Hargett
- 6/26/52 - Boy drowned - Monroe Pond, off Garner Rd.
- 7/24/52 - Put out old mattress on street - West and Cameron
- 7/25/52 - Tobacco barn, total loss - Ten miles out Garner Road
- 7/25/52 - Feed barn, total loss - Six Forks Road, outside city
- 8/19/52 - No fire, fly spray - Wilson Cafe
- 8/20/52 - Train wreck, used light plant - Rhamkatte Road
- 8/25/52 - Rescue pigeon out of tree - Glascock and Norris
- 9/1/52 - Rescue work - Tar Heel Club
- 10/14/52 - Rescue - 530 N. Bloodworth
- 11/14/52 - Went to [Engine] #6 wreck - Brooks and Lewis Farm Road
- 12/5/52 - Paint brushes on stove, no damage - State College
- 1/1/53 - Operated light plant for Raleigh band - Cameron Village
theater
- 1/12/53 - Police car, no damage - Hargett and S. Blount
- 4/2/54 - Get overhanging limb out of tree - W. Morgan St.
- 4/21/54 - Wash up lime - Glenwood and Jefferson
- 5/16/54 - Unlock door - 903 New Bern Avenue
- 6/6/54 - Pot smoking - 204 Smithfield
- 6/13/54 - Standby - Raleigh Airport
- 6/14/54 - [ ditto ]
- 6/15/54 - Help locate lost child - 1008 Norris Street
- 6/25/54 - Man drowned, used resuscitator - Outside city, 38 mile
round trip
- 7/23/54 - House fire - Clayton, NC [ ! ]
- 8/6/54 - Wash up chocolate syrup - Glenwood and Washington
- 8/18/54 - Boy drowned - Greshams Lake
- 8/20/54 - Murray's Bar-be-cue - Outside city
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