Brunswick Naval Air Station Fire Department

== Area Served ==
Naval Air Station Brunswick, also known as NAS Brunswick was first commissioned on April 15, 1943. It was located 2 miles northeast of Brunswick, in Cumberland County, and 30 miles northeast of Portland, Maine. Before its closure, it was to home to a number of maritime patrol aircraft. By the fall of 2009, most of NAS Brunswick's former units had moved to NAS Jacksonville, Florida. The last USN aircraft left the base on November 28, 2009, its two runways were permanently closed in January 2010, and the base was officially decommissioned on May 11, 2011, as per the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure committee (BRAC) decision. Since then the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority has been managing the former military base redevelopment with high-tech business and an industrial park. On April 2, 2011, the airport reopened as Brunswick Executive Airport, a public use general aviation airport, using one of NAS Brunswick's two runways.
== Department Profile ==
Aircraft rescue and firefighting, structure firefighting, emergency medical services, technical rescue, fire prevention and inspection for NAS Brunswick was provided by Navy Region Mid-Atlantic / NAS Brunswick Fire and Emergency Services. Up until the closure of the runways in January 2010, the department was made up of 1 Fire Chief, 2 Operations Assistant Chiefs, 1 Training Assistant Chief, 1 Fire Prevention Assistant Chief, 2 Fire Inspectors, 2 Station Captains, 4 Captains, and 24 firefighters. Shift personnel worked the typical federal firefighter 72-hour work schedule. 
==History==
Until 1956, the base operated separate crash and structural fire crews who responded from their own fire stations. The crash crew operated from Hangar 1 and was made up of mostly active duty sailors with civilian supervisors, while civilian structural fire personnel operated from the base's fire station, Building 10. In 1956 construction was completed on a new modern combination crash and structural fire station that brought the two crews under one roof. During the mid-1960s the crash crew began to replace its sailors with civilian firefighters, and by the mid-1970s all of the base firefighters were cross-trained in both crash and structural firefighting. 
===Fire Stations===
Station	Address 	In Service 	Notes
27 	Building 292 - Orion Street & Seahawk Avenue	1957-2011 (base closure)	Demolished 2016
==Apparatus==
*US Navy serial numbers in brackets
:(71-03184) - 2004 Oshkosh T-1500 4x4 crash tender (1500/1500/210F/450 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 15) (Transferred to Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fire Department as Crash 3)
:(71-03168) - 2004 Oshkosh T-1500 4x4 crash tender (1500/1500/210F/450 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 13 (Transferred to Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fire Department)
:(N71-03154) - 2003 Oshkosh Ti-1500 crash tender (1520/1500/200F/500 lbs. DC) (Transferred to Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fire Department as Crash 8)
:(73-03226) - 2001 International 4900 / Pierce pumper (1250/750/50A/50B) (SN#12523) (Ex-Engine 3)
:(71-03102) - 1998 Oshkosh T-1000 4x4 crash tender (950/1000/130F/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 15, ex-Naval Station Norfolk Fire Department, ex-Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fire Department)
:(71-03070) - 1997 Oshkosh T-1000 4x4 crash tender (950/1000/130F/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 13, ex-Naval Station Norfolk Fire Department, ex-Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fire Department)
:(73-01394) - 1994 KME Renegade pumper (1250/750/50A/50B) (Ex-Engine 5, ex-Roosevelt Roads Naval Station Fire Department)
:1991 Amertek 4000L 4x4 crash tender (1000/1000/125F/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 16)
:1991 Amertek CF4000L 4x4 crash tender (1000/1000/1325F/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 15)
:1991 Amertek CF4000L 4x4 crash tender (1000/1000/125F/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 14)
:(73-03016) - 1990 Pierce Arrow pumper / 1999 Pierce refurb (1000/500/100F/65' Tele-Squrt) (SN#E5917-01) (Ex-Engine 7) (Ex-Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg Fire Department)
:(73-02823) - 1988 Chevrolet C70 / Global Fire (250/500/30F) (Ex-Engine 4)
:1987 Pierce Arrow pumper (1000/750/100F) (Ex-Engine 2)
:1987 Pierce Arrow pumper (1000/750/100F) (Ex-Engine 1)
:1986 Chevrolet M1010 1¼-ton, 4x4 rescue (Ex-US Army Ambulance )
:(71-02714) - 1985 Oshkosh P-19 4x4 / 2004 Crash Rescue Equipment Services refurb crash tender (950/1000/130F/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 14, ex-Lakehurst Naval Air Warfare Center Fire Department)
:1970 Oshkosh MB-1 4x4 crash tender (325/400/65) 
:1955 LeTourneau Westinghouse MB-1A Tournacrane recovery crane 
Category:Defunct US Navy Fire Departments
Category:Defunct fire departments of Cumberland County, Maine
Category:Defunct Military Fire Departments (Maine)
Category:Former operators of Amertek apparatus
Category:Former military operators of KME apparatus
Category:Former military operators of Oshkosh apparatus
Category:Former Military operators of Pierce apparatus