Kansas and Missouri

[MFD76]

Parsons, Kansas Fire Department

Fire Headquarters No. 1

built 1936 as WPA building

Two Brass Fire Poles



Parsons has two fire houses. Fire House Two is the typical one story two bay 1950's fire house. It amazes me that Parsons has two fire houses, due to the size of the city.



NOTE: Noticed the vacant lot and metal building. This was due to the May of 2001 Tornado that struck Parsons. The entire city block was leveled except for the fire house. The Tornado blew in the bay doors and all the windows but structural engineers found the building to be in great shape. The engineers credited the strength because it was a WPA building. The crew said the debris was stacked against the front of the fire house and they had to crawl out the second floor windows.