ARLINGTON FIRE JOURNAL: OLD SQUAD 5 - 1931

Check out this post in another Blog I found, and this one is close to home. The Arlington Fire Journal has been added to the sidebar. It encompasses the History and incidents much like the blog you are reading right now. It is good to see the History of another Fire Department getting so much attention.


ARLINGTON FIRE JOURNAL: OLD SQUAD 5 - 1931:

SQUAD 5 on left in front of Old Station No. 5

The Arlington County Fire Department, as well as the volunteer companies that preceded it, fielded a variety of vehicles over the years, and old timers are particularly sentimental about one old workhorse.

On May 29, 1931, the American-LaFrance and Foamite Corp. shipped a new ``Rescue Squad Car'' to Arlington County from its factory in Elmira, New York. Throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, that vehicle – Squad 5 – responded to almost all of the county's major fire and emergencies, as well as incidents in downtown Washington and across Northern Virginia.

The squad was acquired by the Jefferson District Volunteer Fire Department and ran out of Old Station No. 5 at 206 Frazier Avenue in Aurora Hills, a section of Arlington County now commonly known as Crystal City.