ARLINGTON FIRE JOURNAL Metro D.C. Fire History

Honoring the Fire and Rescue Service - Arlington County, Virginia and Beyond - Established 1999

Thursday, February 11, 2010

FORT MYER - 1918

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

GREEN STAMPS - 1960

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

CHICKEN OR STEAK?

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

BLIZZARD OF 2010

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FLASHBACK - Knickerbocker Storm of January 1922. Theater collapse killed 98 people in Washington, D.C. Photo : www.acfd3.com Ready to roll...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

APPARATUS BAY

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

FOAM 161

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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...

FLEET - 1960

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

MCKAY'S FAREWELL

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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...
Tuesday, December 08, 2009

OLD NO. 6

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Photo : www.acfd3.com Old Fire Station No. 6 at Falls Church, Virginia
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

OLD GLEBE ROAD

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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...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

ARLINGTON'S FIRE CHIEFS

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

EAGLE 2

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Photo : U.S. Government Arlington County firefighters and paramedics transfer patients to the U.S. Park Police helicopter "Eagle 2...
Friday, November 06, 2009

GOV. KAINE

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

911 CENTER

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Arlington County ECC - Emergency Communications Center
Thursday, November 05, 2009

WALTER REED - 1920

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Washington Times - Dec. 14, 1920
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

LADDERS UP!

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Photo: www.acfd3.com Dec. 7, 2008 - Two-alarm fire at 124 Rolling Trace, Falls Church
Friday, August 28, 2009

BUCK & TUCK

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

PLANT FIRE

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Photo : www.acfd9.com Fire at concrete plant, 2006
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

OLD WOODLAWN

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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...

HAIRCUT WAR - 1977

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By Lynn Darling Washington Post April 24, 1977 About 40 Arlington firefighters and the County Board got together to discuss hair length...
Friday, June 26, 2009

HOLIDAY INN - 1987

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On Aug. 23, 1987, an underground transformer exploded in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn in Rosslyn, ``sending a billowing tower of flame...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

JACKSON CITY

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Jackson City - a notorious strip once located along the Potomac River, near the current Boundary Channel Drive and Jefferson Davis Highway -...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

LUNA PARK - 1915

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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...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

HORSES SAVED

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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...

ALL HANDS!

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

FALSE ALARMS - 1923

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``A concerted effort is being launched in Arlington County to apprehend the person who is calling out the fire apparatus on false alarms. Th...
Friday, May 08, 2009

OLD ROSSLYN

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Oct. 23, 1916 FIREMEN AID IN ROSSLYN Engine and Hose Wagon Sent to Fight Blaze Across River. Late yesterday Afternoon Engine Company, No. 5,...
Monday, April 27, 2009

RIVER SEARCH

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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...
Monday, April 13, 2009

2111 JEFF DAVIS - 1979

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UPDATED AUGUST 2019 Photos : Courtesy of Larry Patterson These are images of a high-rise apartment fire at 2111 Jefferson Davis Highw...
Monday, March 02, 2009

CHIEF'S BUGGY

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

REFURBISHED

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Photo : IAFF Local F-253 Engine 161 - Fort Myer - 1984 KME/2007 Pierce Dash
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

PUMPER BURNS

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Photo : www.acfd3.com On Jan. 16, 2009, a fire destroyed a reserve pumper housed at "The Hut" at the Arlington County Fire Traini...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

BLACK THURSDAY - 1953

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

16 RESCUED

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