Parris Island Fire Department

==Area Served==
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (MCRD PI), formerly Port Royal Naval Station and Marine Barracks Port Royal, is an 8,095-acre military installation located on one of the Sea / Barrier Islands of the Atlantic coast, in Beaufort County, southern South Carolina. The base is located within the town of Port Royal and approximately 5 miles south of the city of Beaufort, the community that is typically associated with the installation. The facility is approximately four miles long and three miles wide, and is surrounded by Port Royal harbor and the Beaufort and Broad Rivers, and includes Archer’s, Ballast, and Ribbon Creeks. Since 1915 it has been a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot for enlisted United States Marines with all male Marine recruits who live east of the Mississippi River, and all the female Marine recruits in the nation reporting there to receive their initial training. The recruit depot, as well as the island, is named for Colonel Alexander Parris (November 24, 1780 - June 16, 1852), a chief engineer at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and a Public Treasurer for the State of South Carolina in the early 18th century. The Parris Island facility includes an abandoned airfield by the name of Page Field, named on September 19, 1938 in honor of Marine Aviator Captain Arthur Hallet Page Jr. (September 17, 1895 - September 1, 1930), a pioneer in instrument flying and air racing. who lost his life when his Curtiss XF6C-6 Page Navy Racer crashed during the Thompson Trophy Race at the National Air Races, in Chicago, IL. Since 1996, Page Field is the location where the 54-hour grueling simulated combat endurance course known as "the Crucible" takes place for recruits in week 10 of the Marine Corps' 12-week boot camp.
==Department Profile==
Parris Island Fire and Emergency Services provides structural fire suppression, advanced life support (ALS), emergency medical service (EMS), technical rescue, hazmat services, fire prevention and inspection onboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. The department is comprised of civilian career firefighters. Parris Island FES also has automatic aid agreements with, among others, the Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department, the Burton Fire District, the Burton Hill Fire Department, MCAS Beaufort FES, the Lady's Island/St. Helena Fire District, the Sheldon Fire District, the Bluffton Township Fire Department, Hilton Head Fire Rescue, Jasper County Fire Rescue and Colleton County Fire Rescue.
==History==
The French built and then abandoned Charlesfort on Parris Island in 1562. The Spanish subsequently occupied the island and built Santa Elena. The English crown first granted the island to Robert Daniel in 1698. It was later purchased by Edward Archer, who in 1715 sold it to Colonel Alexander Parris, whose name for the island survived. Port Royal Naval Station, the forerunner of MCB Parris Island, was formally dedicated on June 26, 1891 and a small security detachment of Marines was posted at the station. Military buildings and family quarters constructed between 1891 and World War I form the nucleus of the Parris Island Historic District. Between 1909 and 1911 a Parris Island Marine Officers’ School was founded, and a temporary recruit training program was short-lived. Parris Island in 1911 was designated the U.S. Naval Disciplinary Barracks, Port Royal, a military prison site. The Port Royal Naval Station was transferred to the Marine Corps on October 25, 1915, and was renamed Marine Barracks Port Royal. On November 1, 1915, Parris Island was officially designated a recruit depot, and United States Marine Corps Recruit Training has continued there since then. Prior to 1929, a ferry provided all transportation to and from the island from Port Royal docks to the Recruit Depot docks. That year, a causeway and a bridge over Archer's Creek were completed, thus ending the water transportation era. The causeway was dedicated as the General E. A. Pollock Memorial Causeway in April 1984.
==Apparatus Roster==
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
===Fire Station 1 - 455 Wake Blvd @ Panama Street===
:Engine 521 - 2016 Pierce Saber pumper (SN#29727)
:Engine 523 (MC292891) - 2005 Pierce Saber pumper (1250/500/50F) (Ex-Engine 3) 
:Engine 524 (MC302921) - 2003 Pierce Saber pumper (1250/500/50F) (Ex-Engine 1) 
:Truck 572 (MC293998) - 2009 Pierce Velocity aerial (1750/450/75' rear-mount) (SN#21476) (Ex-Truck 1) 
:Special Operations 551 (MC303910) - 2020 KME Predator walk-around
:Medic (MC303664) - Ford F-450 / Wheeled Coach
:Medic - Ford F-450 / Wheeled Coach
:Chief - Chevrolet Silverado 4x4 
:Asst. Chief - Chevrolet Silverado 4x4 
:Chief 3 (G420778N) - Ford F-150 
:Polaris Ranger 4x4 ATV off-road rescue
===Assignment Unknown===
:2001 Pierce Dash 2000 aerial (2000/750/61' rear-mount Sky-Boom) (SN#12779) 
==Retired Apparatus==
:(MC292894) - 1995 Pierce Arrow pumper (1250/750/100F) (Ex-Engine 4)
:(MC284091) - 1990 Pierce Dash D8000 4x4 walkaround / Pierce rehab (SN#E5470-05) (Ex-Rescue 1) (Ex-Camp Pendleton Fire Department)
:1988 Pierce Arrow pumper / Pierce rehab (1000/500/100F/50' Tele-Squrt) (SN#E3678-09) (Ex-Truck 1)
== External Links ==
Parris Island Fire & Emergency Services on Facebook
== Station Map ==
Category:Beaufort County, South Carolina
Category:US Marine Corps Fire Departments
Category:Military departments operating Pierce apparatus
Category:Military Fire Departments (South Carolina)