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When the New Bedford Fire Department was completely motorized as of December 1917, there were 8 Engine Companies, 4 Ladder Companies, 3 Hose Companies and 10 Stations. Hose Companies were a carry over from the days of horse drawn steam pumpers. At the time, the pumpers carried only large hose lines used to supply the pumpers with water from whatever the source might have been. The hose companies supplied the pumpers with smaller lines used to carry the water to the scene of the fire.
Engine 1 Station 5
Engine 2 Station 2
Engine 3 Station 3
Engine 4 Station 4
Engine 6 Station 6
Engine 7 Station 7
Engine 8 Station 8
Engine 9 Station 9
Engine 10 Station 10
Ladder 1 Station 2
Ladder 2 Station 10
Ladder 3 Station 6
Ladder 4 Station 8
Hose 1 Station 2
Hose 2 Station 8
Hose 4 Station 11
Total Apparatus: 15
Total Stations: 10
A new type of fire apparatus was put into service in 1947, called a fog truck, and was designated as Fog Co. #1, to replace Hose Co. #1. It was later re-designated Engine 1 and the old Engine 1 housed at the old Station 5 on County and Hillman was reassigned to the new Station 5 on Acushnet Avenue near Braley Road and re-designated Engine 5. A Rescue Company was added in 1995 and was assigned to Station #3 on Kempton St only to be decommisioned a short time later in 2002.
Later changes saw the closings of Stations 3, 4, and 10 and the decommisioning of Engines 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and Ladder 2.
Current Apparatus and Locations
Engine 1 Station 2
Quint 5 Station 5
Engine 6 Station 6
Engine 7 Station 7
Engine 9 Station 9
Engine 11 Station 11
Ladder 1 Station 2
Ladder 3 Station 6
Quint 4 Station 8
Total Apparatus: 9
Total Stations: 7
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