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A DCFD fire engine in December 2005. DCFD Engine Company #23 (Foggy Bottom Firehouse) DCFD Engine 7 On January 13, 1803, District of Columbia passed its first law about fire control, requiring the owner of each building in the district to provide at least one leather firefighting bucket per story or pay a $1 fine per missing bucket.
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.
Engine Company 21, also known as the Lanier Heights Firehouse, is a fire station or firehouse and a historic structure located in the Lanier Heights neighborhood in Washington, D.C. It was listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 2005 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
Pages in category "Fire departments in Washington, D.C." The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Firefighters in Washington, D.C., on Friday battled a three-alarm fire that started in a three-story former firehouse under renovation near the U.S. Capitol. DC Fire and EMS said one firefighter ...
Both buildings were listed as part of the "Firehouses in Washington DC" Multiple Property Submission. [2] The new building was put into service on April 27, 1937, as the home of Truck Company 15. Its address was originally listed as 1340 Brentwood Road NE, but later changed to 1340 Rhode Island Ave., NE.
According to the DC Office of Planning, [3] The Palisades firehouse was the city’s first one-story firehouse, and one of two prototype Colonial Revival firehouses dating from 1925. In that year, the fire department completed its conversion to all-motorized apparatus, enabling a more rapid response and necessitating fewer firehouses overall.
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Firefighters in Washington, D.C., were called to the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday after a space heater caught fire. In a post on X, DC Fire and EMS said ...