The structure at 695 Atlantic Street was built in 1876 and served as the mansion of Henry R Towne, the lock tycoon of the well-known Yale and Towne factory of the Southend. The building then became the luxurious "Rockland Hotel" proving travelers and even Stamford Residents a beautiful place to [...]
An early morning fire gutted a two-story mercantile building at 209 Bedford Street. The fire at the Lione - Mitchell Building also threatened several adjacent buildings but was brought under control before the fire could spread. The Delf Company, a hardware store on the first floor, The Vuono Construction Company, [...]
A 3-Alarm fire struck the abandoned Ambassador Arms Luxury Apartment building on the night of September 30, 1978. As was common with many fires of this time period, arson was suspected. Ambassador Arms stood at the corner of Washington Blvd and TResser Blvd, where the Advocate Newspaper building also [...]
Apparatus of the Central Fire Station Officers of the Central Fire Station Donated by DC John Boesen Left to Right: Charles Speh, Mark O'Brien, Thomas Richardson, Martin Kennedy, Frank Fox, Victor Kurth, William Densky, Hawley Oefinger, Walter Seely, Victor Veit. Firefighters of the Central Fire Station Donated [...]
Prior to modern-day Zeatron dispatching, each station would have a device called a joker. The Joker would punch holes in a moving tape roll. So, one hole, pause, two holes would correspond to Box 12. X X X One hole, pause, two holes, pause six holes would be Box [...]
The 2018 Stamford History Center (SHC) exhibit "Stamford On Fire" was a celebration of all Stamford Firefighters and was the conceptual idea of SHC Voumteer Daniel Burke. Dan is the son of former Stamford Fire Captain Daniel Burke". Dan's dream was to tell the story of the origins and development [...]
An artists vision of the Stamford Mills Factory in Stamford, CT Source: Stamford History Center (edited by Captain Philip Hayes) At 7:00 in the evening of February 19th, 1919, a small fire started in the acid storage room of the huge Cove Mills, a complex of about 25 "fireproof" buildings [...]
With the age of Station #2 beginning to show (it was constructed in 1898), City officials began talking about replacing the fire station. The City had planned to build a new one across the street on the basketball courts of the South End Community Center, but local outrage put an [...]
At 09:41 AM on February 1, 2000, Stamford Fire units responded to Box 3414, 791 E. Main Street for a reported structure fire. First arriving crews encountered a heavy volume of smoke and fire coming from a first-floor grocery store. Hose lines were stretched and an aggressive attack on the [...]
On February 4, 1922, a massive explosion of a railroad tank car carrying mixed acids was felt as far away as Sound Beach. The tank car was located at the canal waterfront factory of Richards and Co., today's address is 845 Canal Street. The explosion destroyed one of Richards & [...]
