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The District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department (also known as DC FEMS, FEMS, DCFD, DC Fire, or DC Fire & EMS), established July 1, 1804, [3] provides fire protection and emergency medical service for the District of Columbia, in the United States. An organ of the devolved district government, Fire & EMS is responsible ...
Since its formation as a paid department, the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department has entered 100 names on its Roll of Honor, including two individuals who were not paid members, Benjamin C. Greenup (representing the volunteers who died prior to the formation of the paid department, and William W. Hoake, a Civil Defense Auxiliary firefighter who was assigned to Engine 31 during World ...
Engine Company 19 Washington DC. The first fire station east of the Anacostia River was built in 1898. This station, designed by the Washington, D.C. architectural firm of Averill and Adams, was the fourth built there in 1910. The eclectic style, principally French revival, reflected the desire by the Office of the Municipal Architect to create ...
Engine Company 16-Truck Company 3. / 38.90333°N 77.02972°W / 38.90333; -77.02972. Engine Company 16-Truck Company 3 is a fire station and a historic structure located in the Downtown area of Washington, D.C. It was listed on both the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites and on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department is a combination career and volunteer organization that provides fire suppression services, emergency medical response services, technical rescue services, hazardous materials Response services, water rescue services, life safety education, fire prevention and arson investigation services to Fairfax County, Virginia.
In 1980, Engine company 25 was the busiest company in the District with 2,533 alarms. In 1981, Firehouse magazine published “A Firehouse Exclusive”. An informal survey to compare alarm responses of fire departments throughout the United States and Canada. Engine Company 25 was ranked tenth overall for run responses with 2,695 alarms.
Emergency responders rescued a person trapped in a car that became wedged underneath a tractor-trailer during a crash early Monday morning, according to Hanover Area Fire & Rescue.
May 6, 1971. Designated DCIHS. November 8, 1964. The Vigilant Firehouse is a historic building in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. located at 1066 Wisconsin Ave., NW, just north of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Canal Monument. The Vigilant Fire Company was organized in 1817 and this firehouse was built in 1844, making it the ...