Searchlight fire station

The Searchlight fire station, officially Searchlight Fire & Rescue No. 1,Searchlight fire station sign is an unmarked location within Camp Searchlight in the Mojave Wasteland .
==Background==
At the breakout of the Great War, the bombs' destruction forced the Searchlight police department to divert a convoy carrying nuclear waste from San Onofre into Searchlight, so that the waste could be safely stored. The trucks could be parked at the fire station without exposing them to nuclear blasts that would have potentially turned the sealed, secure fuel casks into massive dirty bombs.Camp Searchlight terminal entries; Chief fire officer terminal, Chief Fire Officer Report No. F1-218 The spent nuclear fuel rods remained there for over two centuries.
Post-War, after the New California Republic took control of Searchlight, renaming it "Camp Searchlight" to use as a military base, the fire station, and more importantly its radioactive contents became the epicenter of the Searchlight Sabotage incident, when Vulpes Inculta, a frumentarius of Caesar's Legion, arranged for legionaries to infiltrate the fire station and unseal the fuel casks, resulting in the entirety of Searchlight being engulfed in a permanent radioactive haze. The legionaries were killed instantly alongside some NCR personnel. Most of the remaining NCR soldiers turned into ghouls or died soon thereafter of radiation sickness,Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition pp. 421-422: "[6.16] Camp SearchlightAs an unfortunate twist of fate would have it, a convoy of flatbed trucks transporting nuclear waste from San Onofre was passing through Searchlight when the Great War broke out. Local police directed the drivers to temporarily park their vehicles in the fire department, but no one ever came back to retrieve them. There they sat in their extremely sturdy solid steel spent fuel flasks for over 200 years. The NCR recently set up a sizable base here, but this was a major obstacle for Caesar's Legion due to its size and clear view of the surrounding desert. When it became obvious that a direct assault would not prove fruitful, Vulpes Inculta sent in some spies to learn more about the situation. After he learned about the radioactive waste being stored in the fire station, he ordered some unwitting legionaries to open the containers. Though the legionaries died almost instantly, the sacrifice produced a massive wave of death and ghoulification among NCR troops that effectively destroyed Camp Searchlight as a viable military base. (Upper) Restrooms: There's a skeleton of a long-dead fireman in one of the stalls, and an extra-special Fireaxe!"(Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition Tour of the Mojave Wasteland)The Courier: "What happened at Searchlight?"Hanlon: "Searchlight was worse. One of Caesar's must have found something in there, flooded the whole camp with radiation."(Hanlon's dialogue) with only a handful of troops out on patrol at the time surviving and rallying under First Sergeant Astor.The Courier: "How did you survive?"Astor: "I was out on patrol at the time so I wasn't in the camp when it happened. There were a few others with me after it happened, including some of my superiors. Between radiation poisoning and attacks by the Legion they all died out."(Astor's dialogue)
==Layout==
Situated near the Searchlight Elementary School, the interior of the station only becomes accessible by acquiring the Searchlight fire station key from Logan, a prospector found in the storage area of the Searchlight west church; it's either given by him during Wheel of Fortune or taken from his body after killing him.
Upon first entering the entrance/garage area, a radscorpion queen along with several smaller radscorpions can be found and will attack.Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition Tour of the Mojave Wasteland: Searchlight fire station and Southern Turret Defenses, p. 421: "Activating the turrets here is difficult. This is the main defenses on the south side, adjacent to the Fire Station and School. Currently, the Fire Station is sealed up, and the only known key resides with a Prospector called Logan; Side Quest: Wheel of Fortune."
On the wall opposite the entrance are two fire axes. The shelving unit next to the axes contains two RadAway and five fire helmets. 
The upstairs level consists of four main rooms, including a large room full of beds and duffle bags, a kitchen containing numerous irradiated consumables, a bathroom, and the fire chief's office. The office contains a locked terminal, a RadAway, and another fire helmet. The bathroom contains Knock-Knock in one of the stalls behind a skeleton, as well as the last fire helmet. Around the back of the station are two fire trucks with Searchlight fire station logos in an enclosed parking lot.
==Notable loot==
* Knock-Knock - A unique variant of the fire axe, found in the upstairs bathroom, in the stall with the skeleton, on the right side of the toilet.
* Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap - On the table in the kitchen, next to several empty bottles.
* Seven fire helmets - Five on the ground floor on the shelves in the garage, one upstairs in the chief's office on a shelf, and one in the bathroom stall where Knock-Knock is found.
* Legion orders - Found on two recruit legionaries in the garage.
==Notes== 
* Most of the food in the kitchen is irradiated, yet the food in the refrigerator is not.
* A pair of fire trucks outside of the station appear to be there because they are too big to fit through the bay door.
* The terminal in the upstairs office of the fire station gives a further insight into the history of Camp Searchlight. The terminal entry mentions the arrival of three trucks carrying radioactive waste, two of which can be found in the fire station garage. It was these trucks that the Legion used to flood the camp with radiation and turn most of the stationed NCR troopers into feral ghouls - however, it mentions that they did not have room for the third truck of radioactive barrels, so it left Camp Searchlight for Cottonwood Cove. This third truck appears to be the same one that can be seen hanging off the edge of the cliff at Cottonwood overlook.
==Appearances==
The Searchlight fire station appears only .
==Behind the scenes==
The in-game Searchlight fire station is based on the real-world location of Clark County Fire Station 75 in Searchlight, Nevada.
==Gallery==
FNV Srchlt FS sign.jpg|Exterior sign
FNV Searchlight Fire Station front.png|View from the west (1)
FNV Searchlight fire station 4.jpg
FNV Searchlight fire station 3.png
FNV Searchlight fire station 2.jpg|If it fits, it sits
FNV Searchlight fire station 1.png|View from the west (2)
FNV Searchlight fire station 6.png
FNV Searchlight fire station 5.png
FNV Truck 11.jpg|Fire truck out back
FNV Searchlight barrels.jpg|Intact radioactive waste barrels
Searchlight FS interior.jpg|Fire station's interior. Note the two dead legionaires behind the radscorpion queen
FNV Disposal Trucks Searchlight.png|Dead legionaries
Fire station diner.jpg|The fire station's dining room
FNV Searchlight fire station chief office.jpg|Chief office
FNV Searchlight fire station restroom.jpg|Sleeping quarters
FNV Knock Knock.jpg|Knock-Knock and fire helmet
SS star bottle cap CS fire station.jpg|Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap
Irradiated food Searchlight fire station.jpg|Irradiated food and drinks
Nv signfirehouse sl.png|Texture file
==References==
 
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