Phoenix Fire Historic Station 8

06/02/2026

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05/08/2026

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Whatever Paramedics encounter on their calls, invariably those memories are taken home with them. As the saying goes “You can’t un-see what you’ve seen” How do you compartmentalize those thoughts? Where do you store those memories? This is what Paramedics face 24/7 – 365, and it takes a to...

04/19/2026

Neighbor Chris Curiel down the street came to say hi with his son.

04/17/2026

We are honored and humbled to announce the placing of a City of Phoenix Historical Street Marker downtown near the ballpark - within 2 blocks of the working fire he was on- for our earliest line of duty death, January of 1896, Fireman John Proops.
John came from the UK to Australia in the 1870s and he and his wife Hannah Franks Proops lost a child there then hopped a ship to the Port of San Francisco and went to Tombstone where they opened up a bakery and lost a second child. They lived there when the shootout near the photo studio and the OK Corral occurred, before moving to Phoenix.
Here he became a Phoenix fireman as well as the very first paid custodian and gardner of Phoenix City Hall. He died as a result of fighting a campaign fire downtown near where his historical marker is, on a two and a half or three story building that was fully involved in 28 Fahrenheit degree freezing temperatures and the boys hand pumping water from the dirt ditches of the old Hohokam waterways.
He was survived by his daughter Rose Proops Willis who was a very well-known and beloved School teacher who later moved to California, and a son Harry Proops who was also a Phoenix fireman and took over his dad's job at the City Hall.
When the City was growing, John was moved from the original Phoenix Citizens Cemetery and now rests with his wife Hannah at Beth Israel Cemetery off of 35th Avenue and the railroad tracks south of Van Buren.
Harry his son is buried in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, a couple of football fields north of our firefighters Bell Tower plots, with his second wife. His first wife is buried at St Francis Catholic Cemetery.

04/17/2026

Friday today a visit from executive director of the Phoenix Police Museum, retired motor officer and Commander Steve Campbell. Steve is pointing at the poster of the 1890s photo of our fire chief's horse cart. The two were best buddies, former Phoenix fireman and mounted Constable Patrolman turned police chief, George Brisbois, with former mounted Constable patrolman Pete Sullivan ( one of four Sullivan Brothers who served on the Phoenix Fire Department) in his role as Phoenix fire chief. In front of the first purpose-built fire station, Central Station at First Street and Jefferson, now the footprint of the Fry's Kroger's high-rise building.

03/13/2026

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COMING SOON: The new Fire Station 13 near 50th St & Thomas will be a four-bay, 16-dorm station allowing PFD to double capacity with a second engine and rescue to improve response times. This continues our investments in seven new fire stations that will serve Phoenix over six years—four of them funded through our GO Bond Program approved by voters in 2023.

03/12/2026

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02/05/2026

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Memorial tribute video for Phoenix Fire Department Engineer Frank Contreras who passed away from Occupational Cancer in 2024. He will be added to the City of...

01/28/2026

The Willo Home Tour and Street Fair this year will be
Saturday evening, 14 February 2026 (exclusive, tickets only), and
Sunday 15 February, 1000 am - 5 pm.
Photo:
This past Saturday, 24 January, the Mock Tour for the committee and others was conducted and of course, Historic Phoenix Fire Station 8 is on the open house portion of the tour every year, where we will see 2,000+ people come through.
IN THIS GROUP is a Willo resident and a descendant from the early history (1800s) of Phoenix: CHARLES PETER GASS. He is on the 1928 bronze Phoenix Fire Founders Plaque in the Bay here at Old Station 8. The Gass family ran businesses and Charles Peter Gass - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53265428/charles-peter-gass - contributed as a Fire Department member.
- Cheers, Tim

01/25/2026

Billy Cook was with the Phoenix Fire Dept, 5 Points Company, and one of the early Phoenix 'Ostrich' wranglers (as were a few others, such as George Alkire).
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