A new "State of the Art" Communications Center, said to the first of its type in the New England area opens at the new Fire headquarters at 629 Main Street. A ribbon-cutting was held in the Communication Center at the new Fire Department Headquarters. Present were Mayor Julius Wilensky Fire [...]
An unidentified woman was found dead and badly charred following a fire 469-481 Pacific Street. Her body laid on the back porch on the second floor. The suspicious fire left at least nine families homeless. The firefighters arrived at 11 PM and did not leave the scene until 5:30 [...]
On January 22, 1974, Stamford experienced its 22nd suspicious fire in just five months, the second one in January. The basement fire started with a flammable liquid, caused considerable damage to the two-story home at 50 Dyke Lane. Nobody was injured in the blaze, but the fire moved rapidly, requiring [...]
In September 1975, Stamford Fire Department accepted the delivery of its first modular ambulance. They called it a "Rescue Ambulance." The idea was that, in addition to its medical responses, it would be equipped with certain rescue tools such as the hydraulic "Jaws of Life". The idea was somewhat [...]
This 1989 Mack CF Ranger 1000 GPM Pumper was built using the refurbished Telesquirt from the original 1974 Pierce Oshkosh Engine 4 Telesquirt.
Unknown firefighters riding the back step of "Squad 1", prepare for their response to an unknown incident out of Fire Headquaters.
Training Officer Joseph Vitti supervises an unknown training session sometime around 1970. Firefighter Edward Fitzgerald stands in the background.
On June 2, 1992, Stamford Firefighters ended a long-standing tradition of providing BLS ambulance service to citizens of Stamford. On this date, Stamford, Glenbrook, and Springdale firefighters as well as members of Stamford Ambulance Corp turned over their ambulances to the newly formed Stamford EMS, Inc., a spin-off of the [...]
In the early days, each of the volunteer companies, Stamford Fire Department and Stamford Police Department, each had their own seven-digit number that residents were supposed to call in the event of an emergency. The volunteer companies would dispatch their own units to incidents. Over the years the Stamford Fire [...]
