SPRINGFIELD FIRE JOURNAL Ohio Fire History

Photo : IAFF Local 333 On May 10, 1999, a general alarm engulfed the old Crowell-Collier printing plant at 200 West High Street on the edge ...

Photo: Springfield Fire Division Masters steams in operation at Springfield, Ohio, industrial site on June 1, 2020.

Stars and Stripes lowered one last time On duty in 1963 with old Engine 3, a 1947 American LaFrance 750 gpm engine. The rig was converted in...

  Photos : Wikipedia Night of raging flames (top) and morning after (below) On Sept. 15, 1956, a roaring fire engulfed the King Building at ...

In 2020, the Springfield Fire Rescue Division placed new Rescue 1 in service - with a ceremonial shove - and retired old Rescue 1, which ser...

Photos : Springfield Fire Rescue Division Incident report from Springfield Fire Rescue Division Facebook page: "Just after noon on ...

Post card of Springfield's first motorized fire engine. The firefighter seated closest to the camera appears to be Fire Chief Samuel Hun...

  Firefighters Mike Rucker, Jim Powell. Glenn Caudill, Capt. Bill Murphy (left to right) and Barney at old Fire Station No. 9 in Springfield...

Photos: Springfield Fire Rescue Division Incident report from Springfield Fire Rescue Division Facebook page: " Just before 0100 on 6/1...

  Photo : Springfield Fire Division  "Signal 3" was the Springfield Fire Division radio call for a working fire. Judging by the eq...

Photo : Springfield Fire Division Aftermath of April 15, 1951 house fire at  1304-1308 S. Yellow Springs Street in Springfield, identified a...

Photo : Springfield Fire Division This is the Springfield Fire Division's command staff in 1905 with Fire Chief Samuel Hunter at center....

The Brighton section of Harmony Township, Clark County, was the scene of an airliner crash on New Year's Eve 1931. Springfield, O., Jan....

On Oct. 29, 1966, the Springfield Fire Division emergency squad responded to 415 Ludlow Avenue for a brutal attack on a mother and her baby....

On Nov. 13, 1916, flames fanned by wind gusts gutted the   O. S. Kelly Piano Plate Company in Springfield. The fire started in gas ovens ...

Image : Department of Veterans Affairs On May 21, 1942, a two-alarm fire hit the Dayton veterans home, which was undergoing renovations...

On Feb. 3, 1908, two Xenia firefighters died when a brick wall collapsed at a fire at the  H. H. Kavey & Co.  wholesale grocery store....

The Springfield Fire Division introduced a home fire safety program in May 1960 and within the first four weeks firefighters completed m...

Roaring flames swept the old Clark County Courthouse on March 12, 1918, toppling the bell tower and gutting the interior. The gra...

Photo : Youngstown Fire Photo : Big Mack Trucks "I t's not easy being green," Kermit the Frog once said. In the 1970s ...

Photo : Fidelity Sales Co. via Clark County Historical Society Insurance agents distributed local fire photos like this one to drum up b...

On March 4, 1908, fire killed 172 children and two teachers at Lakeview Elementary School in the village of Collinwood, Ohio, near ...

In 1840, Springfield suffered an economic calamity all too common in early urban America - a Great Fire. According to Beers' 1881 ``Hist...

Photo : WDTN Neighbors raised a ladder to help two people escape a fire on East Northern Avenue in Springfield on Feb. 28, 2016 . They wer...

Photos courtesy of the estate of Henry Frank Moler, an engineer employed by the City of Columbus engineer...