Raleigh Fire Department History

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1792-1849
1850-1859
1860-1869
1870-1879
1880-1889
1890-1899
1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
       1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-present

Maps / Charts

Downtown Aerial Map, 1872
Downtown Historical Map

Sanborn Map, 1903
Sanborn Map, 1909
Sanborn Map, 1914


Historical Chart
Run Numbers, 1991-present

City Ordinances

Fire Department, 1867
Fire Department, 1908
Fire Department, 1929

Other

Missing Microfilm
Alarm Boxes
Sources

Antique Fire Apparatus
Birth of a Fire Department (2.5M)
Fire Academy Photos

Fire Alarm System
Fire at Dorothea Dix
Mutual Aid, Early
Steam Fire Engines
Training Towers

Personnel Information

Fire Academies
Fire Chiefs
Line of Duty Deaths
Volunteers, 1866-1911

Volunteers, Modern

Official Records

Fire Calls, 1887-1910 (6.6M)
Fire Department, 1920s
Nat'l Board Fire UW, 1924

Nat'l Board Fire UW, 1931

Planning Department, 1952

Unofficial Reports

Apparatus Histories
Company Chronologies

Survey of Fire Stations

Books

Electronic Books
RFD Yearbooks
Lee's Book
MJL Books
 
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