Fire Department / Fire Stations

1829 - An engine house was built for the Friendly Fire Service, a private company.

See

• Andover Historical Society
  

1833 - Town Meeting voted the sum of $365 to build an engine house on Essex Street.

1855 - The town splits. North Andover gets two fire engines; Andover gets one.

1862 - The Friendly Fire Society was renamed the Shawsheen Steam Fire Engine Company.

1882 - A new fire station was built behind the Town Hall on Main Street

1895 - The Ballardvale Station was relocated to the corner of Andover Street and Clark Road.

See

• Andover a Century of Change:1896 - 1996 by Eleanor Motley Richardson, (974.45 Ric), page 194.

1924 - Andover established a Fire Department with Charles Emerson appointed as the first Fire Chief. By then "horses had become a thing of the past."

See

• "1924," What It Was, What It Is: 300th Anniversary, May 30 - June 2, 1946, (974.45 And)

1966 - A new fire station was built in West Andover on Chandler Road.

See

• Andover a Century of Change:1896 - 1996 by Eleanor Motley Richardson, (974.45 Ric), page 194.

1997<bt> The Fire Department bought a hovercraft to aid water/ ice rescues.

See

• "Fire Department Will Hover to the Rescue", Townsman, August 28, 1997, page 1.

2002 - In September Main Street Fire Station was razed and construction was begun on the Andover Public Safety Center to house both fire and police.

2006 - There are three fire stations in Andover:

• Central Headquarters at 32 Main Street
• West Fire Substation at 200 Greenwood Road
• Ballardvale Fire Substation at 1 Clark Road

See

• Andover Fire Rescue
• "Two sites eyed in final Ballardvale fire station plan," Andover Townsman, October 10, 2013, p. 1.
• "New options for Ballardvale fire station," Andover Townsman, 6 February 2014, p. 1.

--Eleanor 15:34, August 23, 2006 (EDT)

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