Meshanticut Park Volunteer Fire Company

==History==
The Meshanticut Park Volunteer Fire Company, founded in 1895 and disbanded in 1995, was one of four volunteer fire departments serving alongside the career fire department in the city of Cranston, Rhode Island. The department, along with the Fiskeville, Oak Lawn, and Pawtuxet Volunteer Fire Departments, closed their doors after a century of volunteer service to the people of the city of Cranston. Their first due response area is currently protected by the Cranston Fire Department.
The department held the apparatus assignments of Engine 7 and Engine 17. At the time of their disbandment, the department was operating Engine 7, a 1976 Hahn HCP-10 pumper, the only blue fire apparatus to serve in Rhode Island. After a brief career serving as Engine 3 at the Community Fire Company in Thompson, Connecticut, Engine 7 returned to Cranston as the centerpiece of the apparatus collection of the Cranston Volunteer Firefighters' Museum, located in the former quarters of the Oak Lawn Volunteer Fire Department on Hope Road.
The Meshanticut Park VFC can trace its' history back to the Pocasset Fire Company, changing its' name in 1945.
===Fire Stations===
Station 	Address 	In Service	Notes
Fire Station	495 Phenix Avenue, Cranston	1976-1995 	Still stands, now a landscaping company.
==Apparatus==
:1976 Hahn HCP-10 pumper (1250/500) (Rebuilt 1987 following MVA) (Sold to Community Fire Company (Connecticut)) (Now owned by Cranston Volunteer Firefighters' Museum)
: 1955 Ford pumper (Purchased 1973, ex-Roslyn Highlands Fire Department)
:1955 Ford / Farrar pumper (Destroyed in accident 1973)
== External Links ==
* https://cranstonvolunteerfirefightersmuseum.com/mechanticut-park-fire-company/
Category:Defunct fire departments of Providence County
Category:Former operators of Farrar apparatus
Category:Former operators of Hahn apparatus