Alameda Naval Air Station Fire Department

== Area Served ==
Naval Air Station Alameda (NAS Alameda), formerly Alameda Airport and Benton Field, was a United States Navy naval air station in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, in Alameda County, Northern California. It was located at the west end of Alameda Island at Old Alameda Point and had two 8,000 ft. runways, three seaplane ramps, a lighted seadrome, 300 buildings and 30 miles of roads. Two helicopter pads and a control tower were also part of the facilities. The air station closed permanently on 25 April 1997 pursuant to Base Realignment and Closure action. Its runways were also closed and the airfield was not reutilized as a civilian airport. 
== Department Profile ==
Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF), structure firefighting, shipboard firefighting, emergency medical services, fire prevention and inspection for NAS Alameda was provided by the NAS Alameda Fire Department, comprised of civilian career firefighters, working out of a single fire station .
== History ==
In 1927, wetlands at the west end of Alameda Island on the east shore of San Francisco Bay were filled to form Alameda Airport with an east–west runway, three hangars, an administration building, and a yacht harbor. The airport site included the Alameda Terminal of the First Transcontinental Railroad. By 1930, United States Army Air Corps operations referred to the site as Benton Field. Pan American World Airways used the yacht harbor as the California terminal for China Clipper trans-Pacific flights beginning in 1935. On 1 June 1936, the city of Alameda ceded the airport to the United States government a few months before the US Army discontinued operations from the field. Pan American World Airways shifted its terminal to Treasure Island in 1939 for the Golden Gate International Exposition. Congressional appropriations passed in 1938 for construction of naval air station facilities for two carrier air wings, five seaplane squadrons and two utility squadrons. Appropriations were increased in 1940 for construction of two seaplane hangars and an aircraft carrier berthing pier and naval operations began at the station on 1 November 1940. Fleet Air Wing 8 began patrol and scouting missions following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 5, 1941. In April 1942, USS Hornet, while berthed at Alameda, loaded the 16 North American B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft that would take part in the 18 April 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan. Following World War II, NAS Alameda remained an important naval base through the Cold War. In 1967, NAS Alameda's runways were lengthened for jet aircraft and the airfield was renamed Nimitz Field following the death of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. In 1993, the air station was classified as 'redundant' as part of the Base Realignment and Closure effort, and was closed permanently on 25 April 1997. After its closure as a naval air station, the decommissioned US Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) opened to the public as the USS Hornet Museum on the southernmost Alameda Navy Pier in 1998. Since 2000, the city of Alameda has been planning the redevelopment of the former Naval Air Station, now known as Alameda Point. 
=== Fire Stations ===
Station	Address 	In Service 	Notes
1 	950 West Ranger Road / Building 6	???? - 1997	Taken over by Alameda Fire Department as their Fire Station 5; AFD closed it in 2009 however, still active as its Training Division HQ
==Apparatus==
:(73-02945) - 1988 Pierce Arrow pumper (1000/500/100B) (SN#E4458-02)
:1988 Piece Arrow pumper (SN#E4157-07)
:1986 Pierce Dash pumper (1000/750/100A) (SN#E3105-04) (Transferred to Muscatatuck Urban Training Center Fire Department)
:1980 SMI-Firemaster CRV-1000 (SMI-Snowblast, Inc.) P-17 4x4 crash tender (1000/1000/130F/200 lbs. Halon) 
:1980 Spartan CFG / Pierreville aerial (100' rear-mount) (Ex-Truck 1)
Category:Defunct US Navy Fire Departments
Category:Former Military operators of Pierce apparatus
Category:Defunct fire departments of Alameda County
Category:Defunct Military Fire Departments (California)