Naval Weapons Station Yorktown Fire Department

== Area Served ==
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, formerly Navy Mine Depot Yorktown and Naval Mine Depot Yorktown, is a United States Navy installation in York County, in which most of it lies; and a small portion within James City County, in the Hampton Roads region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Naval Weapons Station (NWS) Complex is 20.7 square miles in area and provides weapons and ammunition storage, as well as a loading facility for ships of the United States Navy Atlantic Fleet, and more recently, for those from the USN Fleet Forces Command. The station borders the cities of Newport News and Williamsburg, and is bounded on the northwest by the Naval Supply Center Cheatham Annex, the Virginia Emergency Fuel Farm, and land owned by the Department of the Interior; on the northeast by almost 14 miles of the York River and the Colonial National Historical Park; on the southwest by Route 143 and Interstate 64; and on the southeast by Route 238 and the community of Lackey. Naval Weapons Station Yorktown hosts 25 tenant commands which include the Navy Munitions Command, the Naval Ophthalmic Support and Training Activity, the Marine Corps Second Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk detachment, Navy Expeditionary Medical Support Command, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group, Riverine Squadron THREE, Maritime Civil Affairs Squadron TWO, and 19 Storefronts.
=== Mutual Aid ===
NWS Yorktown FES has mutual aid agreement with surrounding agencies including York County Fire and Rescue (Virginia), the Newport News Fire Department and the Williamsburg Fire Department (Virginia). 
== Department Profile ==
Structure firefighting, emergency medical services, fire prevention and inspection for NWS Yorktown is provided by Navy Region Mid-Atlantic / NWS Yorktown Fire and Emergency Services consisting of career federal civilian personnel working out of two fire stations. 
== History ==
Around 1914, the DuPont Company acquired a 4,000-acre site on the banks of the York River and built a dynamite plant, which came to be known as Penniman. Before DuPont production started, the United states Navy acquired the site on August 7, 1918 by presidential proclamation in response to World War I. The Navy acquired the property to establish the Navy Mine Depot Yorktown at this site with the Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy Department assuming possession one month later. This eventually developed as the largest naval installation in the world at the time. In 1932, the Navy Mine Depot became the Naval Mine Depot in recognition of expanded ordnance support. Then, on August 7, 1958, on the Station’s 40th anniversary, the name was changed to Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, again in recognition of a much expanded mission for naval ordnance. Yorktown was near the Navy Operating Base at Hampton Roads, the Norfolk Navy Yard, and the Fuel Bases of the Fifth Naval District. It had excellent transportation access, with the main lines of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad forming one of the boundaries of the Depot, and five miles of waterfront on the navigable York River. 
==Apparatus Roster==
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
=== NWS Yorktown Fire Station 13, Longfellow Road & Shupper Drive ===
:Brush 21 - 2013 Ford F-550 4x4 / KME / HMA Type 6 (UHP/300/30F)
:Battalion 22 - Chevrolet Tahoe
:Medic 23 - Ford F-350 / Wheeled Coach
:Quint 25 (N74-00097) - 2008 Pierce Velocity (1500/325/25A/75' rear-mount ladder) (SN#22526-01 or 02)
=== Cheatham Annex Fire Station 15, Sanda Avenue & Cold Storage Road ===
:Engine 27 (N73-03496) - 2009 Pierce Contender pumper (1250/750/70F) (SN#21447)
:2024 Pierce Saber 6000 pumper (1250/600) (SN#39292)
===Assignment Unknown===
:2003 International 7600 6x4 / E-One (Superior) tanker (500/3000) (SO#126660) (SN#SE 3056)
== Retired Apparatus ==
:(N73-03426) - 2010 Pierce Contender (1250/750/70F) (Ex-Engine 27) (Transferred to Naval Station Norfolk Fire Department)
:1998 International 4800 / Pierce Hawk Type 3 wildland (500/830/100F) (SN#EB341) (Ex-Brush 25, ex-Brush 21) (Transferred to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story Fire Department
:1997 Pierce Arrow pumper (1250/500/100F) (SN#EA325) (Transferred to Naval Station Norfolk Fire Department)
:1996 Pierce Dash pumper (1250/750) (SN#E9044)
==Station Map==
Category:York County, Virginia
Category:James City County
Category:Military Fire Departments (Virginia)
Yorktown
Category:Military departments operating Pierce apparatus
Category:Military departments operating E-One apparatus (United States)
Category:Departments operating Superior Emergency Vehicles apparatus