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Mountain View Fire Department Celebrates 150 Years This Weekend
The fire department will parade through downtown with antique emergency vehicles and host a family-friendly fair on Sunday afternoon.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — The Mountain View Fire Department will celebrate 150 years of service this weekend with a downtown parade and public safety recruitment fair.
According to city history, the department was founded in 1874 after a few dozen of Mountain View's earliest residents gathered around a pot-bellied stove in the Rogers & Rogers Department Store and hammered out a plan to form the town's first fire brigade: Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1.
To commemorate the occasion, the Mountain View Fire Department will kick off a parade at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in front of the Fire and Police Administration Building. The route will travel down Villa and Castro streets before ending at City Hall Plaza. Antique ambulances, police and fire vehicles will take part in the revelry, including a working horse-pulled steam fire engine from the early 1900s.
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The public safety recruitment fair promises fun for all ages and will have educational booths, an inflatable firehouse and a bucket brigade. Dozens of fire and police agencies from around the region will table recruitment booths.
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