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City Garage Yard and Fire Drill Tower, also known as City Place, is a historic municipal services complex located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The City Garage is an expansive, largely one-story, polygonal structure with multiple equipment-size access bays. It features arcaded bays and stepped and rounded parapets. The Garage was ...
Durham’s fire marshal has ordered two businesses to stop offering an increasingly popular wellness service called “mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy,” which has been advertised by purveyors as ...
The department was established in 1869 to provide policing services to the residents of Durham and has undergone many changes in its structure and operations since. The most notable change occurred in the 1970, when the City of Durham combined both the Durham Police Department and the Durham Fire Department to create a joint public safety ...
Firefighters work the scene of a fire at a building near the intersection of East Main Street and Holman Street on Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Durham, N.C. Earl Jones, who lives nearby, said he saw ...
The City of Durham Fire Department held a special housing ceremony for the new Engine 1 fire truck.
The city's first fire marshal, George H. Sheldon, was appointed in 1873, eight years after the reorganization of the fire department into a career department in 1865. Robert O. Lowery became the first African-American fire marshal in 1946. Lowery would ultimately rise to the top of the department, being appointed the city's fire commissioner in ...
Howard’s federal lawsuit, initially filed in 2017, sought damages against the city of Durham, former and current officers, and a fire department employee involved in the investigation.
On April 10, 2019, a gas explosion occurred near downtown Durham, North Carolina at the 115 block of North Duke Street in the Brightleaf District. The blast destroyed several buildings and damaged dozens of others, [4] killing two people and injuring 25 others, including 9 firefighters. [5] City officials cited a gas leak as the cause of the ...