ARLINGTON FIRE JOURNAL Metro D.C. Fire History

Medic 325 Photo : Airport web site It was a busy night for the Reagan National Airport Fire Department. On April 3, 2008, a norovirus infect...

40th Anniversary In 1968, Washington, D.C. burned following the April 4 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. Arlington Co...

STATION No. 5 Crystal City 1750 South Hayes Street Arlington, VA 22202 Engine 105, Truck 105 & Medic 105 In 2008, the Arlington County F...

UPDATED MAY 2008 PHOTO : Fire Lt. Jeff Kramer via http://www.acfd3.com/ Box 7602 - April 19, 2008 - 5:37 a.m. ``Units arrived with heavy fir...

Photo : U.S. Army The Arlington County Fire Department received assistance from across the nation in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 att...

On March 24, 2008, Arlington County firefighters used a fire extinguisher to freeze a rattlesnake that bit Andrew Bacas, crew coach at Yorkt...

On April 27, 1945, a Page Airways passenger flight crashed at National Airport: Washington, April 27 -- (AP) -- A transport plane en route f...

Alexandria Fire Station No. 1 - Old Town EDITOR'S NOTE : The Alexandria Fire Department participates in the Northern Virginia regional r...

Photos : Channel 5, Channel 9 On March 13, 2008, the District of Columbia Fire Department requested mutual aid from Arlington County and oth...

Photos : Channel 7 WJLA web site On March 7, 2008, a house fire killed an elderly woman in Arlington County and injured a firefighte...

Old Arlington Hall By David Shultz of The Connection newspaper A PIECE of weaponry dating back to the Civil War was discovered underneath a ...

On Nov. 28, 1982, tourists visiting Arlington National Cemetery discovered the charred body of a man at the grave of President John F. Kenn...

UPDATED MARCH 2008 Old bell at Station No. 4 Heart attacks from stress are a leading cause of firefighter deaths, so the Arlington County Fi...

Photo : acfd3.com Aircraft rescue and firefighting drill at National Airport - 2007

Harold LeRoy, long-time president of the Arlington County Fire and Rescue Association, died Jan. 22, 2008. He would have celebrated his 91st...

Modern fire dog Many years ago, Murph - "The Fire Engine Dog" - resided at Old Station No. 2 in Ballston, and we are told that whe...

UPDATED FEBRUARY 2008 Photo : Station 28 web site Photo: Fox 5 A three-alarm fire erupted in a 12-story apartment building in Seven Corners ...

From Collection of Arlington Fire Capt. Randy Higgins

Engine 66, staffed by federal firefighters, protected the old Arlington Hall Station of the U.S. Army until base closed in 1990. The two-pie...

Engine 103 and Rescue 104 (Photo courtesy of www.acfd3.com ) Station No. 1 - Engine 101, Medic 101, Hazmat 101, Battalion 111 Station No. 2...

ADDED FEBRUARY 2008 On June 7, 2007, fire destroyed an Arlington Transit ART bus as it was making a night-time run. According to an officia...

Arlington County operated CD Rescue unit in 1950s (Photo courtesy of www.civildefensemuseum.com )

Graves of Sept. 11 victims at Arlington National Cemetery DEADLIEST FIRES IN ARLINGTON COUNTY HISTORY Pentagon - Sept 11, 2001 ... 189 vic...

WRECKAGE OF FOAM 161 - PENTAGON 9/11/01 HOLLINGER BOX COMPANY - 1950s OLD RADIO ROOM - STATION 4 OLD SQUAD 5

REFINERY FIRE - 1924: Fire broke out at the Crown Oil and Wax Company in Rosslyn on Aug. 6, 1924 - and threatened nearby petroleum storage ...

(Photos from ACFD and The Washington Post) A concrete slab collapsed Dec. 8 on the 24th floor of a high-rise building under construction in...

The following tale is based on a speech by former President Gerald Ford on being Vice President of the United States. In 1922, a general...

Falls Church warehouse fire (Photo courtesy of http://www.acfd3.com/ ) The Arlington County Fire Department contended with fire and flood i...

Foam 161 - Pentagon Heliport & Fort Myer Foam 326 - Reagan National Airport "Christine" - Old Reserve Truck No. 3's ...