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The Fire Department bought a hovercraft to aid water/ ice rescues.
The Fire Department bought a hovercraft to aid water/ ice rescues.



Revision as of 15:43, 30 December 2014

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

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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.

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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."

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

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

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  • "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

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  • 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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