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Houston Fire Department
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Tristan, Author.
- Series:
- Images of America
- Images of America Houston Fire Department
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houston (Tex.). Fire Department--History--Pictorial works.
- Houston (Tex.).
- Fire departments--History--Texas--Houston--Pictorial works.
- Fire departments.
- Fire fighters--History--Houston--Texas--Pictorial works.
- Fire fighters.
- Fire extinction--History--Houston--Texas--Pictorial works.
- Fire extinction.
- Houston (Tex.)--History--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Arcadia Publishing 2015
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Houston's firefighting service began in 1838 with the founding of Protection Fire Company No. 1. As the city of Houston grew throughout the early and mid-19th century, volunteer companies formed and grew along with it. By 1895, city leaders decided to form the Houston Fire Department as a city department, culling the volunteer forces for men, stations, apparatus, and horses. The city grew in leaps and bounds, swallowing up neighborhoods, communities, and smaller cities along the way, with the fire department nipping at their heels. This brave force battled devastating fires throughout the years, most notably the Great Fifth Ward Fire in 1912, the 1943 Gulf Hotel Fire, the Woodway Square Apartment Conflagration in 1979 and the Southwest Inn Fire in 2013. What was once a smattering of volunteer fire brigades has grown into an imposing force of over 3, 000 firefighters protecting over two million people in the fourth largest city in the United States.
- Contents:
- The early years
- The motorized Magnolia City
- A one-horse town grows
- Boom, bust, and recovery
- Houston's fire chiefs
- Line of duty deaths.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781439651520
- 1439651523
- OCLC:
- 1323252370
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