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This
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Houston Fire Museum
2403 Milam Street
Houston, Texas 77006
Phone: (713) 524-2526
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HFD History
A brief look into the history of the
Houston Fire Department
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| We are in the middle of redesigning this section of the web site. Please be patient as we rebuild. Coming soon will be our online picture archive. The Houston Fire Museum has thousands of pictures in its archive that have been scanned and will be uploaded to a picture gallery you can view. Also coming soon will be streaming video from our over 300 hour video archive of past HFD incidents. |
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The Houston
Fire Department began as a bucket
brigade in 1838, one year after the
city incorporated. There is limited
history telling of the expansion
over the ensuing years to the modern
fire department today. What is left
of the history, however, is quite
colorful, heroic, sometimes
humorous, and interspersed with
tragedy. So much of the fire
department's history has been lost.
A series of events took its toll on
the records of the past: 1) city
records were destroyed by Union
troops who occupied the city after
the Civil War;
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2) two
devastating fires destroyed the city
offices in Market Square; and 3) a
fire razed the central fire station
in 1904. Part
of the problem could have
been a lack of appreciation
for the past by many of the
early fire chiefs.
We
strive to make the history
as accurate as possible. If
any present or past
firefighter finds something
in the history that is not
as they remember, or lacks
some detail they feel needs
to be added, please
contact the author.
(Please put HFMI Web
in the subject line.) We
also welcome comments from
others. |
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Copyright 2008 Houston
Fire Museum, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Houston Fire Museum, Inc. is a 501-C- 3
non-profit organization educating the
community on fire and life safety and the
history of the fire service. The Museum is
supported by membership, gift shop sales and
the generous contributions of foundations
and corporations.
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