Spokane Fire Department President of the Board of Commissioners
This file appears in: Spokane Fire Station No. 1: Establishing a Professional Force
Mr. Robert E. Clarke. Appointed July 11, 1899. 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…