Spokane Fire Station No. 1, First Paid Crew


This file appears in: Spokane Fire Station No. 1: Establishing a Professional Force

No. 1's first professional crew in 1890. Those present: George Sanders, Tom Lathrop, Fred Reumer, J.M. Rite, Rollo Harbord, George Chapman (later a captain and killed in a fall from a ladder while fighting a fire), Fred Wentworth, A.C. Salmon, J. Darwin, Ed Stopher, J. Coverley, L.J. McAtee, Frank Aikin (captain of No. 1), H. Gillette, Robert Wilson (later a veteran police officer), Fred Winsor, J.C. Boyd, W.C. Gillette (then chief of the Spokane Fire Department), J. Willage, J.W. Draper, J. Bennett, Sam Fiver, Frank Gillette, Frank Morrison, Dan Collins, A. McCurn, S. Haynes, H.K. Harrison and Frank Tailor. The chief is in the center with this hand in his coat. Photo Courtesy of Spokane Public Library, Northwest Room, Spokane, WA.


This file appears in: Spokane Fire Station No. 1: Establishing a Professional Force