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The Kansas City Fire Department first originated with the formation of volunteer bucket brigades as early as 1858. Church bells rung to signal a fire alarm and members would assemble at the scene to help. In 1867, the city abandoned the voluntary bucket brigade for a paid fire department, and Colonel Frank Foster was elected as its first chief. [4]
Shortly before the explosion, at 3:40am, the Kansas City Fire Department received their first call alerting to a pickup truck fire on the construction site. The possibility of explosives catching fire was mentioned in this call. Pumper 41, consisting of a captain and two firefighters, was dispatched to the scene where it arrived at 3:46am.
Firefighters responded to the blaze at 12:15 a.m. at an apartment building in the 2600 block of East Eighth Street, said Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins with the Kansas City Fire Department.
A man was critically injured when a fire engulfed a home early Friday in the Brookside area of Kansas City, a fire department spokesman said. Neighbors called 911 shortly before 5:15 a.m. after ...
A fire early Tuesday force residents from their apartment building in the 300 block of Gladstone Boulevard in Kansas City’s Northeast area. Heavy smoke from the fire, located in a first floor ...
A 17-year-old girl died following a house fire early Sunday in Kansas City’s Northland.. Crews responded around 2:40 a.m. to the fire in the 8300 block of Northeast 103rd Terrace, where they saw ...
The Coates House Hotel is a former hotel at 1005 Broadway in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, on the National Register of Historic Places.Also known as the New Coates House Hotel, it was built in 1889–1891, incorporating parts of an earlier hotel, which had been built in the late 1860s as the Broadway Hotel and then became the Coates House after a change in ownership.
The Kansas City Fire Department responded just before 11:30 p.m. to a fire in the 5700 block of Bales Avenue in Kansas City’s North Town Fork Creek neighborhood east of Interstate 71.