Wooster Fire Department (Ohio)

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==History==
The Fire Department was formed in the 1870s by the merger of the cities four volunteer fire companies: Wooster Fire Company No. 1, Wooster Fire Company No. 2, Deluge Fire Company No. 3 and Relief Fire Company No. 4. In 1896 Relief Company 4 purchased an Allerton Steamer these replaced the previous batch of hand pump engines. The development of water works and the system of reservoirs and cisterns defeated their usefulness however. In 1888 the cities new hall was built in the 200 block of East Liberty Street with the fire department located in the back. The department received a Gamewell alarm system and it became paid with a fire chief, two paid firemen and a complimentary force of reserve firemen known as reserves who were abolished in 1988. At this point each of the independent companies was abolished and their buildings were sold and razed with the exception being Relief No. 4 at 122 South Market Street. In 1915 a Buick chief car was purchased then a 1916 - 1917 Reo fire truck. Horse drawn apparatus was taken out of service and all of the horses were sold in 1918. The Fire Department gained a portable inhalator in 1928 growing the departments activities to partial medical coverage rather than just fire suppression and prevention. They did not have an ambulance to transport victims and any medical calls were ran on the chief car or on a fire truck, firefighters tended to victims until funeral home ambulances could transport. The Wooster Township FD was formed in 1940 and operated out of the main Wooster Fire Station until 1957. Medical calls reached an equal number as fire calls for the department in the 1950s. In November of 1959, a bond was passed which would help to construct a new city hall and two new fire stations, all would be completed in 1962 with the previous building being razed shortly thereafter. By the 1970s only two funeral homes still provided EMS service and in 1974 the Ohio State Legislature passed a law which intensified the requirements for governing EMS which ended EMS from funeral homes as they could not afford to comply. It was at this time that the Wooster FD began providing EMS coverage with two ambulances being purchased November 1, 1974 then a third in 1976 for transferring victims between hospitals. In 1997 the WDF began paramedic training after its proposal two years earlier and by 1999 the department has 18 certified paramedics.
Former Stations
Station 	Address 	In Service 	Notes
Wooster Fire Company 1	 	187? - 1888	Demolished.
Fire Company 2 	 	187? - 1888	Demolished.
Deluge Fire Company 3 	 	187? - 1888	Demolished.
Relief Fire Company 4 	122 South Market Street 	187? - 1888	Still standing.
1 	200 East Liberty Street 	1888 - 1962	Located in city hall.
1 	510 North Market Street 	1962 - 2023	Currently being rebuilt.
2 	433 East Highland Avenue	1962 - 2017	Might be an EMS Station.
==Apparatus Roster==
All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
===Fire Station 2 - 3333 Burbank Road===
Built 2017
* Tower 138 - 1998 Pierce Lance (1500/?/100' rear-mount)
* Engine 2 - 2018 Sutphen (1500/750)
* Medic 2 - 200? Freightliner
* Chief - 201? Ford Explorer
* Fire Safety Trailer
=== Fire Station 3 - 2255 Gateway Drive ===
Rebuilt between 2012 and 2017
* Engine 3 - 2008 Pierce Dash 2000 pumper (SN#19897)
* Medic 3 - 200? Freightliner
* Car 1301 - 201? Ford F-150
* Utility 3 (1304)- 201? Ford F-250
==Retired Apparatus==
:2004 Seagrave quint (1500/500/75' rear-mount) (Ex-Engine 2)(Sold to Branchville Hose Company No. 1 (New Jersey))
:1976 ambulance (Ex-Medic 3)
:1974 ambulance (Ex-Medic 2)
:1974 ambulance (Ex-Medic 1)
:1916/1917 Reo pumper (Ex-Engine 1)
:1915 Buick chief car
:1896 Allerton Steamer (Ex-Relief Engine 4)
:187? Hand Pump engine (Ex-Relief Engine 4)
:187? Hand Pump engine (Ex-Deluge Engine 3)
:187? Hand Pump engine (Ex-Engine 2)
:187? Hand Pump engine (Ex-Wooster Engine 1)
Category:Wayne County, Ohio
Category:Ohio departments operating Pierce apparatus
Category:Ohio departments operating Sutphen apparatus
Category:Former operators of Seagrave apparatus