Fire Department History

Although the original fire department charter was not signed by the Village of Savage until September 10th, 1951, July 20th, 1951 marked the first official meeting of the Savage Fire Department. Six members were present. Following that meeting, additional members were added throughout the year. By the end of 1951, the Village of Savage Fire Department had 22 members.

This was the first building the fire department used.

It was located next door to where Station "60" was built in the mid 1960s. In the early years, the firefighters were alerted by a fire whistle that was mounted to the water tower. That fire whistle was used until the mid-1970s when the department switched to a pager system.

The water tower stood until the early 1990's.

Quentin Avenue Fire Station
This photo from 1969 shows some of our original equipment. A the newspaper article, from that time, called the fire station "one of the most modern in the surrounding area."	This photo shows the station and trucks in 2008.
	The fire station was built in 1966 was decommissioned in 2010 and, was taken down in July of 2011.
Current Fire Stations
Dakota Avenue (station 60) opened July, 2010	O'Connell Road station, opened in 1991

Engine 22 was recently retired from the fleet and was sold to a college in Canada, it was originally purchased in 1991.