ARLINGTON FIRE JOURNAL Metro D.C. Fire History

Photo : www.firetrucks-atwar.com Scene at U.S. Army's Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, in 1918.

Photos : Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department On Nov. 6, 1960, firefighters from Falls Church and Fairfax County battled a fire at the ...

Photo : Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department Arlington County Fire Department training bureau van at shopping center on Columbia Pike in ...

FLASHBACK - Knickerbocker Storm of January 1922. Theater collapse killed 98 people in Washington, D.C. Photo : www.acfd3.com Ready to roll...

Photo : Photography on the Net Truck 105 and Engine 105 at Crystal City, Virginia

Photo : IAFF Local F-253 Foam 161 of the Fort Myer Fire Department is a 2001 E-ONE TITAN. It replaced the foam wagon destroyed at the Pentag...

Photo: www.acfd3.com Fire department fleet at drill school in 1960.

Operations Chief Scott McKay, a veteran of the Pentagon attack on Sept. 11, 2001 who also led a team of firefighters during the Hurricane Ka...

Photo : www.acfd3.com Old Fire Station No. 6 at Falls Church, Virginia

On Nov. 25, 2009, James Bea, a 24-year employee of the Arlington County public works department, was electrocuted at the site of a watermain...

UPDATED AUGUST 2019 David Povlitz: Appointed October 2018. Veteran of Anne Arundel County and City of Alexandria fire departments. Hold...

Photo : U.S. Government Arlington County firefighters and paramedics transfer patients to the U.S. Park Police helicopter "Eagle 2...

Photo : Arlington County web site Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine meets Arlington County firefighters at ceremony in 2006. Rescue 104 is in the bac...

Arlington County ECC - Emergency Communications Center

Washington Times - Dec. 14, 1920

Photo: www.acfd3.com Dec. 7, 2008 - Two-alarm fire at 124 Rolling Trace, Falls Church

Buck Cumberland (left) served for many years as chief of the Cherrydale Volunteer Fire Department in Arlington County, Virginia. His brother...

Photo : www.acfd9.com Fire at concrete plant, 2006

Photo : Falls Church Volunteer Fire Dept. web site Crews on the scene of an April 1974 fire at the old Woodlawn School, which was located a...

By Lynn Darling Washington Post April 24, 1977 About 40 Arlington firefighters and the County Board got together to discuss hair length...

On Aug. 23, 1987, an underground transformer exploded in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn in Rosslyn, ``sending a billowing tower of flame...

Jackson City - a notorious strip once located along the Potomac River, near the current Boundary Channel Drive and Jefferson Davis Highway -...

On April 19, 1915, fire destroyed the roller coaster at Luna Park, a forgotten amusement park which was located in the vicinity of Glebe Roa...

About 2oo U.S. Army horses were saved from a stable fire at Fort Myer on Oct. 24, 1925. The blaze was ``started by a short circuit in the el...

Photo : http://www.acfd3.com/ Ballston Volunteer Fire Department, circa 1920s Clarendon was the scene of a general alarm fire in September ...

``A concerted effort is being launched in Arlington County to apprehend the person who is calling out the fire apparatus on false alarms. Th...

Oct. 23, 1916 FIREMEN AID IN ROSSLYN Engine and Hose Wagon Sent to Fight Blaze Across River. Late yesterday Afternoon Engine Company, No. 5,...

UPDATED MAY 9, 2009 Photo : Fox TV web site On April 26, 2009, firefighters from the District of Columbia and Arlington County scoured the P...

UPDATED AUGUST 2019 Photos : Courtesy of Larry Patterson These are images of a high-rise apartment fire at 2111 Jefferson Davis Highw...

Photo: www.acfd3.com Battalion Chief Wilber "Gabby" Gray at the wheel of the chief's buggy at the Drill School. The vehicle i...

Photo : IAFF Local F-253 Engine 161 - Fort Myer - 1984 KME/2007 Pierce Dash

Photo : www.acfd3.com On Jan. 16, 2009, a fire destroyed a reserve pumper housed at "The Hut" at the Arlington County Fire Traini...

Photo : www.steamlocomotive.com Arlington County firefighters were on the scene in the nation’s capital on Jan 15, 1953 – Black Thursday ...

Photos : Channel 7 On Jan. 6, 2009, Arlington County firefighters rescued 16 people from the windows of a burning apartment building near R...