page_title: Honolulu Fire Department
section_title: Hawaiian Engine Company No. 4
hierarchical_section_title: Honolulu Fire Department / History / Establishment of the HFD / Hawaiian Engine Company No. 4
caption_attribution_description: English: Prairie Queen
context_page_description: The Honolulu Fire Department provides fire protection and first responder emergency medical services to the City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Honolulu. Founded on December 27, 1850 by Kamehameha III and Alexander Cartwright, the Honolulu Fire Department serves and protects the entire island of O'ahu, covering over 600 square miles of territory, home to more than 880,000 residents and over 4 million annual visitors.
  The HFD is one of just a handful of fire departments in the nation that is Nationally accredited. The Commission on Fire Accreditation International confers Accredited Agency status for a period of five years.
context_section_description: King Kalākaua was a member of Engine Company No. 4, which was originally an all-Hawaiian Company established in 1861.  Prince Albert Kamehameha, a toddler at the time, admired Company 4 and was made an honorary member.  After his death at the age of five, the entire HFD joined his funeral procession.  When King Kalākaua died in 1891, firefighters draped black fabric on their stations to show their respect for the King.
caption: The Prairie Queen is a mid-nineteenth-century fire apparatus.  It was not actually used by the HFD; it was donated to the department in 1969. But Honolulu firefighters used similar equipment in the 1800s.
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