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Hose tower at Engine House No. 16, present-day Central Ohio Fire Museum Hose tower of Erottaja's fire station in Helsinki, Finland. A hose tower is a structure constructed for hanging firehoses to dry. Hose towers have been features of some fire station designs in Canada, [1] Germany, [2] and the United States. [3]
Fire stations frequently contain working and living space for the firefighters and support staff. In large U.S. cities, fire stations are often named for the primary fire companies and apparatus housed there, such as "Ladder 49". Other fire stations are named based on the settlement, neighborhood or street where they are located, or given a number.
The company felt having its own fire brigade was also dynamic [5] and assigned Hadid the project for the building. It was the first building complex designed by Zaha Hadid. Starting with the fire station, she also designed the campus boundary walls, an exercise facility, and a bicycle shed. [6] She noted: "There was no landscape, so we had to ...
It includes combination buildings, such as city halls or other government buildings that include a fire station. This list is intended to include all historic fire stations which have formally been listed on historic registers, as well as modern ones notable for their architecture or other reasons.
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The Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire (PBF) provides fire suppression and prevention for the City of Pittsburgh, as well as BLS response on medical details. [3] In all, the bureau is responsible for 55.5 square miles (144 km 2 ) with a population of 305,841 as of the 2013 Census estimation . [ 4 ]