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Central Pierce Fire & Rescue history
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Unfortunately for the city, the fire department was not established until after the big fire of September 17th 1890 when much of the town was destroyed.
Like most American fire departments of this time of 1890, the Puyallup Fire Department was an all-volunteer department, beginning with 25 men.
In 1922, a fire erupted at Bock’s grocery store in Spanaway.
In 1931 the second station was built on the south side of West Pioneer Ave. between 2nd and 3rd Street SW. The station had 2 engine bays and construction was of brick and mortar.
In 1939, Washington State House bill number 81 was introduced and passed.
In 1941, when many Pierce County rural fire departments were just getting started as volunteer departments, Chief Brakefield took command of Puyallup Fire and started hiring paid firemen to fill the ranks.
The community’s first station was a renovated blacksmith shop that was moved to the corner of 97th and 20th Avenue in 1942.
However, by May of 1944, Leading Men of the Parkland Community, following the Midland example, formed the Parkland Volunteer Fire Department as an incorporated non-profit organization.
In October of 1945 the business people reorganized this small department opening it up to a much larger area.
Within a year, on February 16th 1946 the Parkland area residents voted 362 to 5 to become a fire district.
By April 17th 1948 these communities were also voting on their own fire department measure adopting the name Summit, Woodland, Collins Fire Department.
District Number 9 citizens voted on April 17th and became official under resolution #2809 on April 20th 1948.
Both stations were accepted and open for use on September 9, 1949.
In 1949 the permanent Spanaway station was built of concrete cinder block and still stands at 16215 Park Ave.
The first station was built around 1954 of concrete cinder block at 7322 50th Ave.
In 1955 the Community of North Puyallup decided to change that by voting to create Fire District #11 with the help of Sumner’s Fire Chief Dwire Garrett.
By 1957 and under Chief Parkhurst, Puyallup Fire was up to 10 paid men, in addition to 26 volunteers.
By 1968 Puyallup was staffed with 17 paid firemen and only 12 volunteers.
In 1968 a large 2 story public safety building was built by the city for both the police and firefighters, each sharing half of the building.
In 1969, Puyallup gained the unique distinction of having the first 911 telephone alarm system on the West Coast.
In 1969 the current 61 was built.
Station 66 was built in 1973 at 9813 128th Street East as a replacement Headquarter Station for PCFD #9 now known as the South Hill area.
In 1974 the second station was built of steel at 8119 Canyon Road East and is still used by Central Pierce as a training center.
The second station was built in 1976 as a wood frame building.
The first station 72 was built as a concept fire station in 1978 for Puyallup Fire.
Station 60 and its offices were constructed in 1979 as District #7 headquarters station at 17520 22nd Ave.
Station 69 along with the neighboring vehicle and maintenance shop was built in 1984 at 17210 110 Ave.
Station 62 was built for Parkland Fire in 1985 at 1410 Brookdale Road East.
Station 64 The current 64 station is a beautiful brick and mortar building, built in 1986 at 3421 224th Street East by PCFD #7 in the Elk Plain area, also known to some as the Bethel area.
The first meeting took place soon after the January 1st 1990 functional consolidation of District #4, Midland and District Number 6, Parkland.
The following year, Midland merged with Parkland after the September 17th 1991 vote, when Midland citizens passed the measure by 76%. By November 1991, District Number 21 Graham dropped out of the merger talks.
In 1992, the three standing districts, District Number 6, Midland/Parkland District Number 7, Spanaway/Elk Plain and District Number 9, Summit/South Hill, consolidated their training with a very favorable outcome.
In the latter part of 1995, the time had arrived, for District Number 7 and District Number 9 to submitted petitions to merge with District Number 6.
On February 15th 1996 the citizens of District Number 7 and District Number 9 voted to merge with District Number 6 to unify the department as one and establish themselves as Central Pierce Fire & Rescue.
Station 68 was built in 2006 by Central Pierce Fire & Rescue, sharing the same plan as two other stations, 65, and 67.
In 2007 Chief Frank retired and Deputy Chief Ruth Obadal was promoted to fire chief and is now one of the two Deputy Chiefs with the merger of central Pierce Fire & Rescue.
On November 4th 2008 voters in both Central Pierce and the City of Puyallup voted to approve the annexation of Puyallup into Central Pierce Fire & Rescue.
Station 67 was built by Central Pierce Fire & Rescue in 2008 at 8005 Canyon Road East.
Station 63 was built in the Midland area in 2017 for Central Pierce Fire & Rescue at 1704 97th Street East and is the third fire station in the area.
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