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
Spokane Fire Station No. 1: Establishing a Professional Force
Although the professionalization of the Spokane Falls Volunteer Fire Department was emerging years before the Great Fire of 1889, it wasn't until a few months after when the City passed an ordinance officially professionalizing the Spokane Falls…
