ARLINGTON FIRE JOURNAL Metro D.C. Fire History

Photo : Channel 7 On July 28, 2008, an apartment fire killed Lois Day, 84, on the seventh floor of 5535 Columbia Pike. The following units...

From Sun-Gazette Sept. 9, 2008 A plan to augment Arlington County's seven emergency-medical services (EMS) ambulances with an eighth un...

Photo : IAFF Local 2800 web site 734 North George Mason Drive - July 5, 2008

Old Wagon 2 Photos : acfd3.com and IAFF Local 2800 web site 21st Century: At 1130 N. Randolph St. on July 2, 2008 Arlington County Fire St...

Photo : http://www.scripophily.com/ In 1955, Arlington County issued bonds to finance the construction of fire stations. Station No. 9, on S...

Photo : www.acfd3.com The late Larry "Sally" Robey at the pump panel at a second alarm on South 8th Street in 1981. The 1977 GMC-B...

Photo: www.acfd3.com Exterior Attack 1944 Chevy-Oren at fire (circa 1960)

VINYL FIREFIGHTERS : Arlington County's Old Engine 72 served as backdrop for the ``Fanning The Flames" album by the blue grass band...

Photos : WUSA Channel 9 Lightning struck twice for the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority's fire department. In May 2008, Engin...

TRUCK 1 - This photo was submitted by Tim Eisner whose father - Walter J. Eisner, pictured to the left - delivered this 1966 American La Fr...

Medic Units at Court House PHOTO : Channel 4 News CLICK ON MAP FOR LARGER IMAGE On June 9, 2008, the Arlington County Fire Department respo...

On Feb. 26, 1954, diners abandoned their bacon and eggs just before a natural gas leak triggered an explosion and fire at a Cherrydale resta...

PHOTO : Alexandria Public Library On Jan. 2, 1929, fire swept the Doniphan Building at 725 King Street in Alexandria's Old Town. Firefi...

On March 5, 1930, flames gutted Abingdon Plantation, birthplace of Nellie Custis, the mother of Martha Washington. ``The Jefferson District ...

PHOTO : Fox 5 On May 27, 2008, Arlington County firefighters recovered the body of a motorcyclist who swerved off a cliff on the George Wash...

On May 23, 2008, fire destroyed three buses parked at the Hilton Crystal City. Damage was estimated at $1.5 million. Battalion Chief Carol ...

``When the Pentagon dials 911, Arlington County answers.'' In May 2o08, Arlington County opened a new Emergency Communications Cente...

UPDATED MAY 2008 ___ Review by MICHAEL DOYLE, MODESTO (California) BEE ARLINGTON, Va. - Remember the Pentagon. It burned, too, dismembered ...

On May 6, 2008, a small earthquake - a ``micro-quake'' - rattled Northern Virginia. The magnitude 1.8 temblor was centered near Ann...

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