PFD Historian’s Blog

Engine 21 was organized March 15, 1871 at 714 N. New Market Street in the firehouse formerly occupied by the Northern Liberty Hose [...]

Engine 20 was organized March 15, 1871 in the former quarters of the Diligent Fire Company on the southwest corner of 10th and [...]

Engine 19 located at 20 E. Cheleten Avenue. Engine 19 moved to this new house on December 16, 1913 from their former quarters [...]

Engine 18 was organized March 15, 1871 at 1903 Callowhill Street in the firehouse formerly occupied by the Spring Garden Fire Company No. [...]

Engine 17 was organized March 15, 1871 on Race Street east of Broad Street in the firehouse formerly occupied by the Good Will [...]

Engine 16 was organized March 15, 1871 in the quarters formerly occupied by the Monroe Fire Company at 5013-15 Lancaster Avenue. The city [...]

Engine 15 was organized on March 15, 1871 at Howard and Putnam Streets in the Mill District. Putnam Street was later renamed Columbia [...]

Truck A was organized March 15, 1871 at 2132 Coates Street. Of the original twenty-seven companies organized to comprise the paid fire department, [...]

Engine 14 was organized March 15, 1871 in the quarters formerly occupied by the Washington Fire Company of Frankford at 4612 Frankford Road. [...]