Editing Pensacola Fire Department

{{Infobox organization 
|name=Pensacola Fire Department
|image=
|formation=[[1898]]
|type=Fire protection
|location=475 East [[Strong Street]]
|leader_title= Fire Chief
|leader_name=[[Ginny Cranor]] 
|executive=
|board=
|staff= 
|budget=$9,600,300 (FY 2018) 
|website=[https://www.cityofpensacola.com/711/Pensacola-Fire-Department]
}}
The '''Pensacola Fire Department''' is the fire department for the [[City of Pensacola]]. The current Fire Chief is [[Ginny Cranor]].

The department maintains six fire stations and is comprised of six engine companies, two ladder companies, and two Aircraft Rescue Firefighting units.

==History==
===Volunteer era===
Fire service in Pensacola dates back to [[1810]], when Spanish officials imported two fire engines, fifty leather buckets, hoses and nozzles from a British firm.  A formal volunteer firefighting brigade was formed in [[1821]] when Florida was transferred to the United States.

====Germania Fire Company====
The '''Germania Steam Fire Engine and Hose Company''' was formed in [[1870]] and was headquarted at [[17 East Zaragoza Street]].  In [[1888]], the Germania Company merged with two other fire companies to form the '''Fire Association of Pensacola''', a city-run volunteer association.

===Formation of paid department===
Volunteers continued to be the only means of fire protection until [[January 1]], [[1898]], when the city established a full-time department of paid firefighters under Chief [[John Baker]].

==Stations==

===Station 1===
Station 1 is located at 400 East [[Cervantes Street]], in front of the department's administrative offices at 475 East [[Strong Street]]. Station 1 is home to Engine 1, Engine 5, Ladder 11, a rescue boat, and the Battalion Chief. Station 1 also has an antique fire engine sitting amongst the modern apparatuses. 

===Station 2===
Station 2 is located at 4132 North [[Davis Highway]]. Station 2 houses Engine 2 and Rescue 32.

===Station 3===
Station 3 is located at 2750 [[Summit Boulevard]]. Station 3 houses Engine 3.

===Station 4===
Station 4 is located at 1 North [[Q Street]]. Station 4 houses Engine 4, and the fireboat.

===Station 6===
Station 6 is located at 6550 North [[9th Avenue]]. Station 6 houses Engine 6 and Ladder 16.

===Station 7===
Station 7 is located at [[Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport]].

==Images==
<gallery>
Image:JohnCampbell-firefighter-1888.jpg|"John Campbell".  [[1888]].
Image:JohnBaker-FireChief-1901.jpg|Chief John Baker.  [[1901]].
Image:PFD-wagon.jpg|PFD fire wagon in front of station.  Circa [[1900]]s.
Image:PFD-wagon2.jpg|PFD wagon at [[Jackson Street|Jackson]] and [[de Villiers Street]]s, [[1909]].
Image:PFD-1911-1.jpg|PFD firefighters outside station, [[1911]]
Image:PFD-1911-2.jpg|PFD firefighters outside station, [[1911]]
Image:PFD-1911-3.jpg|PFD firefighters with ladder truck, [[1911]]
Image:PFDGarden1903.jpg|Firefighters outside of station on East [[Garden Street]], [[1903]]. Though long since disused by the Fire Department, this building is still extant.
</gallery>

==References==
*[http://www.cityofpensacola.com | City of Pensacola website]
*[http://www.pensacolafire.com | Fire Department

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