ARLINGTON FIRE JOURNAL Metro D.C. Fire History

OFFICE OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER FORT MYER, VIRGINIA March 1, 1934 Fire Chief, Clarendon Fire Department, Clarendon, Virginia Dear Sir: ...

On Nov. 2, 1965,  Norman Morrison, 32, a devout Quaker, set himself ablaze outside the Pentagon to protest the war in Vietnam. Morrison ha...

On May 5, 2016, Arlington County Manager Mark Schwartz named James Bonzano as the county's seventh fire chief. Bonzano began his care...

Photos : Collection of Frank Higgins On April 14, 1949, flames raged in the two-story Odd Fellows Hall at Wilson Boulevard and Hudson...

Photos : Collection of Randy Higgins, ACFD files, Wikipedia Firefighters battled a major blaze at the Hollinger box factory at ...

Photos : Arlington County Library, Higgins Collection Old Clarendon Fire Station

The Arlington County Fire Department waged battle on a stubborn blaze at the Noland Co. plumbing and heating supply warehouse in Rosslyn...

Photo : Abbey Roads blog "John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration was on fire — literally .  Cardinal Richard Cushing’s podium caught on f...

On Feb. 1, 1961, fire killed seven patients on the top floor of the Mount Vernon Nursing Home at 2301 Calvert St., Northwest, Washing...

Scenes from 1959 Pentagon fire : Smoke pushing from basement; Capt. Charles Theodore and a soot-covered Capt. Leon Dodson Sr. , with ...

Photo:  ACFD Virtual Museum Smile at the camera boys! Old Engine 7 was a GMC/American LaFrance 750 gpm. Left to right Arlington County...

Site of the crash Mr. Harold Leroy (above) and Frank Higgins (below) were among the Arlington firefighters who respon...

Photos : Falls Church VFD On Memorial Day 1969, fire destroyed the Hechinger's building supply store on South Washington Street...

Collapsing walls killed five District of Columbia firefighters at a blaze in the 1890s. It happened at the Commission House conflagrati...

1980's era reserve ladder nicknamed "Christine" after a horror movie of same name about " a sentient and violent autom...

Old Cherrydale Fire Station following World War II Old Cherrydale Fire Station in 21st Century

On Oct. 23, 1968,  flames gutted Murphy's Five and Dime Store in Clarendon. The blaze was discovered by the crew of Wagon 4 on their r...

Fire Capt. Archie Hughes Firefighters attempt to reach Hughes An Arlington County fire captain was killed in the line of duty in ...

UPDATED JAN. 20, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. It happened almost 33 years to the date of the twin disasters of Jan. 13, 1982 -...

On Nov. 4, 2014, a mother trying to save her daughter died in a house fire along with the child, family members told NBC News4. Mary Bark...

Photo: dcmilitary.com Firefighters from Arlington County and Fort Myer participate in drill with Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 19, 2012....

  On May 19, 1972, the Weather Underground terrorist group planted a bomb in a women’s lavatory in the Air Force wing of  the Pentag...