Kansas and Missouri

[MFD76]

Wichita Fire Department

Fire Chief Thomas McGaughey Fire House 1

1973

Battalion 1, Division 1, Squad 1, Engine 1, Truck 1, Mobile Air 1, Safety Officer, Fire Investigator, Mobile Air 1, and not staffed is Command 1. Fire House 1 also used to house a second Engine Company that carried the numbers 31,33,21,25 over the years.



NOTE: Chief of Department McGaughey died with three other firemen on November 21, 1968 when the bowstring truss roof of Yingling Chevrolet collapsed. Fire House 1 is named in his honor. Sadly history repeated itself at Waldbaum Super market fire, Brooklyn, New York in 1978 and again in 1988 at Hackensack, NJ Ford.