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The Duluth Fire Department provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the City of Duluth, Minnesota. [1] The city commissioned an external analysis of the Department in 2012. [2] According to the report the department employed 141 staff members, who at the time staffed 9 fire stations.
This was the second largest property fire in the US in 1982 and one of the largest in Minneapolis history, with 85% of the entire department (on and off duty) responding to the fire. The cause of the fire was suspected to be two juveniles playing with an acetylene torch in the vacant department store which set fire to a debris pile (charges ...
It was built from 1906 to 1907 to house the Owatonna Fire Department and city government offices. [2] The city offices were relocated to the former campus of the Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children in 1974. The Firemen's Hall continues to serve as the headquarters for the Owatonna Fire Department. [3]
Cold weather is creating added pressure on first responders in Minnesota, where three times the number of firefighters were needed to battle a house fire. Triple the firefighters needed amid cold ...
Fire Station No. 1 is a former fire station in the Central Hillside neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota, United States.The two-building complex was constructed in 1889. It was one of the first fire stations in Duluth, built as the city transitioned from a volunteer fire department to a professional municipal agency. [2]
A fire fighter's turnout gear staged in front of a fire engine. According to the National Fire Department Registry, in January 2025 there were 1,207,800 firefighters in the United States (this includes career, volunteer and paid per call firefighters as well as civilian staff and non-firefighting personnel). Of these, 14.7% are mostly or ...
Oct. 1—WATERVILLE — Decades ago, the Minnesota conservation officers, then known as game wardens, generally didn't carry weapons on duty, but that changed following a single deadly encounter ...
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