 | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline .(August 2023) |
The El Paso Fire Department (EPFD) provides fire protection services to El Paso, Texas, United States.
| The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline .(August 2023) |
The El Paso Fire Department (EPFD) provides fire protection services to El Paso, Texas, United States.
Fire protection services for El Paso extend back to 1882. Firemen were mostly volunteer until a fully paid fire department was established in 1909. [1]
| No. | Last | First | Start date | Finish date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armstrong | W. W. | 1909 | 1915 | |
| 2 | Wray | John | 1915 | 1927 | |
| 3 | Sullivan | John T. | 1927 | 1940 | |
| 4 | Jackson | W. E. | 1940 | 1942 | |
| 5 | Boone | Joe H. | 1942 | 1950 | |
| 6 | Davis | H. A. | 1950 | 1962 | |
| 7 | Farr | W. L. | 1962 | 1968 | |
| 8 | Coleman | Marion | 1968 | 1984 | |
| 9 | Wilson | Joe H. | 1984 | 1988 | |
| 10 | Mehl | Andrew | 1988 | 1996 | |
| 11 | Johns | Glenn | 1996 | 2001 | |
| 12 | Rivera | Roberto | 2002 [2] | 2008 [3] | |
| 13 | Drozd | Otto, III | April 2009 [4] | November 2012 [5] | |
| 13.5 | Carmona | Carlos | Interim fire chief [6] | ||
| 14 | Peña | Samuel | March 7, 2013 [7] | December 10, 2016 [8] [9] | |
| 14.5 | D'Agostino | Mario | Interim fire chief | ||
| 15 | D'Agostino | Mario | April 13, 2017 [10] | 2022 [11] | |
| 15.5 | Killings | Jonathan | May 2022 [12] | December 9, 2022 | Interim fire chief |
| 16 | Killings | Jonathan | December 9, 2022 [13] | present |
| Station Number (built) | Address | Pumper Company | Ladder or Quint Company | Ambulance | Specialty Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central (1982) | 201 S. Florence | Pumper 1 | Ladder 1 | Rescue 1 | Battalion1 |
| 2 | 111 E. Borderland | Pumper 2 | Rescue 2 | Attack 2 | |
| 3 (1930) | 721 E. Rio Grande | Pumper 3 | Rescue 3 | Water Rescue 3 | |
| 4 (1949) | 1218 Randolph | Rescue 4 | |||
| 5 | 400 Revere St. | Pumper 5 Pumper 13 | Ladder 5 | Rescue 5 | Battalion 3, Squad 1, HazMat 1 |
| 6 | 1850 Firehouse Dr. | Pumper 6 | Rescue 6 | ||
| 7 (1958) | 3200 Pershing Ave. | Pumper 7 | Quint 7 | Rescue 7 | |
| 8 (1948) | 301 E. Robinson | Pumper 8 | |||
| 9 | 47 Dallas | Pumper 9 | Rescue 9 Medic 9 | ||
| 10 (1930) | 1801 Montana | Pumper 10 | |||
| 11 (2002) | 314 S. Leon | Pumper 11 | Ladder 11 | Special Rescue 11 | |
| 12 (1947) | 3801 Fort Blvd | Pumper 12 | Rescue 12 | ||
| 14 (1955) | 6300 Delta | Pumper 14 | Rescue 14 | ||
| 15 (1956) | 115 Shorty Ln. | Pumper 15 Pumper 51 | |||
| 16 (1969) | 3828 Hercules | Pumper 16 | Quint 16 | Rescue 16 | Decon 16 |
| 17 (1958) | 8803 Alameda | Pumper 17 | Quint 17 | Rescue 17 | |
| 18 (1958) | 7901 San Jose | Pumper 18 | Quint 18 | Medic 18 | |
| 19 (1959) | 2405 McRae | Pumper 19 | Rescue 19 | ||
| 20 (1960) | 8301 Edgemere | Pumper 20 | Quint 20 | Rescue 20 | Rehab 20 |
| 21 (1960) | 10000 Dyer | Pumper 21 | Rescue 21 Medic 21 | ||
| 22 (1960) | 6500 N. Mesa | Pumper 22 | Ladder 22 | Rescue 22 Medic 22 | Battalion 2 |
| 23 (1967) | 5315 Threadgill | Pumper 23 | Rescue 23 | Battalion 5 | |
| 24 (1975) | 1498 Lomaland | Pumper 24 | Ladder 24 | Rescue 24 | Battalion 4, Decon 24 |
| 25 (1978) | 10834 Ivanhoe | Pumper 25 | Rescue 25 | ||
| 26 (1980) | 9418 North Loop | Pumper 26 | Rescue 26 | Attack 26 | |
| 27 | 6767 Ojo De Agua | Pumper 27 | Rescue 27 | ||
| 28 | 10820 McCombs | Quint 28 | Rescue 28 | ||
| 29 (2001) | 11977 Pellicano | Pumper 29 | Rescue 29 | ||
| 30 | 4451 Loma Clara | Pumper 30 | Attack 30 | ||
| 31 | 122 Mesa Park Dr. | Quint 31 | Rescue 31 | ROC 31 | |
| 32 | El Paso International Airport 101 George Perry Blvd. | ARFF1, ARFF2, ARFF3, ARFF4 ARFF5, ARFF6 | Rescue 32 | ||
| 33 | 3475 Nolan Richardson | Pumper 33 | Rescue 33 | ROC 33 | |
| 34 | 6565 Angora Loop S. | Pumper 34 | |||
| 35 | 12230 Pine Springs Dr. | Quint 35 | Battalion 6 | ||
| 36 (2023) | 1960 North Resler Dr. | Pumper 36 | |||
| 37 (2013) | 12950 RC Poe | Quint 37 | Rescue 37 |
El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in West Texas, and the sixth-most populous city in Texas. The city has the largest Hispanic population share of main cities in the U.S. at 81%. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and had a population of 868,859 in 2020.
Alejandro Tapia y Rivera was a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, essayist and writer. Tapia is considered to be the father of Puerto Rican literature and as the person who has contributed the most to the cultural advancement of Puerto Rico's literature. In addition to his writing, he was also an abolitionist and a women's rights advocate.
Thomas Rivera Schatz is a Puerto Rican politician, legal advisor, attorney, and former prosecutor, who was the fourteenth and sixteenth President of the Senate of Puerto Rico. He is affiliated with New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico and the mainland Republican Party. On July 22, 2019, Rivera Schatz announced that he will take over as acting chair of the PNP following the resignation of Ricardo Rosselló due to the Telegramgate scandal.
KDBC-TV is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fox affiliate KFOX-TV. Both stations share studios on South Alto Mesa Drive in northwest El Paso, while KDBC-TV's transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits.
KVIA-TV is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC and The CW. Owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company, the station maintains studios on Rio Bravo Street in northwest El Paso and a transmitter atop the Franklin Mountains within the El Paso city limits.
KCOS, branded on-air as PBS El Paso, is a PBS member television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, owned by Texas Tech University. The station's offices are located on Viscount Boulevard in east El Paso, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits. Its nominal main studio is located at Texas Tech-owned KTTZ-TV in Lubbock.
Roberto A. Rivera-Soto is a former Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, U.S.A. His seven-year term expired on August 31, 2011, and he was not nominated to another term. Since leaving the court, he has resumed practicing law, as a partner with the Ballard Spahr law firm, in their Cherry Hill, New Jersey, office.
Dallas Stoudenmire was an American Old West gunfighter and lawman who gained fame for a brief gunfight that was later dubbed the "Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight." Stoudenmire had a deadly reputation in his day and was involved in several gunfights.
The Diocese of El Paso is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the El Paso Valley in Texas in the United States. It is a suffragan see of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Antonio.
Loop 375 is a beltway that partially encircles the city of El Paso, Texas. The beltway is mostly a freeway, except for its northern section, which includes at-grade intersections. The highway passes through various areas of El Paso, funneling traffic within and around the city. The road is known locally under different names, as Woodrow Bean Transmountain Drive in the northern section, Purple Heart Memorial Freeway in the northeastern section, Joe Battle Boulevard in the eastern section, the César Chávez Border Highway in the southern section, and the Border West Expressway on the southwest section.
Coronado High School in El Paso, Texas, United States is located on the west side of El Paso near the intersection of North Mesa Street and Resler Drive. It serves the southern part of west El Paso: east of Interstate 10, from the vicinity of Executive Center Boulevard north approximately three miles to around Coronado Arroyo, a normally dry stream bed running west down from the Franklin Mountains just north of Escondido Drive; and the portion of the Upper Valley which lies south of Country Club Road. Most of the Coronado attendance zone is zoned to Morehead Middle School for grades six to eight. The elementary schools in the Coronado feeder pattern include Dr. Green, L.B Johnson, Putnam, Carlos Rivera, Western Hills, and Zach White. The Upper Valley portion of the Coronado attendance area is zoned to Zach White Elementary and Lincoln Middle School, except for the Buena Vista neighborhood around Interstate 10 and West Paisano Drive, which is zoned to Johnson and Morehead. Dr. Green, L.B Johnson, Putnam, Carlos Rivera and Western Hills elementary schools all graduate into Morehead Middle School.
Raymond L. Telles Jr. was the first Mexican-American Mayor of a major American city, El Paso, Texas. He was also the first Hispanic appointed as a U.S. ambassador.
Barrio Azteca, or Los Aztecas, is a Mexican-American street and prison gang originally based in El Paso, Texas, USA and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The gang was formed in the Coffield Unit, located near Tennessee Colony, Texas by Jose "Raulio" Rivera, a prisoner from El Paso, in the early 1980s. It expanded into a transnational criminal organization that traded mainly across the US-Mexico border. Currently one of the most violent gangs in the United States, they are said to have over 3,000 members across the country in locations such as New Mexico, Texas, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania as well as at least 5,000 members in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
The Superintendent of the Puerto Rico Police is the highest-ranking officer, administrator, and director of the Puerto Rico Police, and an ex officio member of the Commission on Safety and Public Protection as well. The superintendent is appointed by the governor of Puerto Rico with advice and consent from the Senate. Superintendents have also typically being simultaneously appointed as Commissioners of Safety and Public Protection due to the nature of their job and experience.
El Paso Police Department (EPPD) is the principal law enforcement agency serving El Paso, Texas, United States. As of Fiscal Year 2014, the agency had an annual budget of more than $118 million and employed around 1,300 personnel, including approximately 1,100 officers. Greg Allen was appointed as the EPPD's chief of police in March 2008 and served until his death in January 2023.
Oscar Leeser is an American politician who has served as the 52nd mayor of El Paso, Texas since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 50th mayor from 2013 to 2017.
Dionne Mack, briefly known as Dionne Mack-Harvin, is an American librarian. She was the executive director of the Brooklyn Public Library from 2007 to 2011 and the first African-American woman to head a major library system in the state of the New York. She has been the deputy city manager of El Paso, Texas since July 2017.
On November 3, 2020 El Paso County elected the mayor of El Paso, Texas, four members of city council, two county commissioners, county sheriff, state senator, and five state representatives. El Pasoans voted for members of the House of Representatives of the United States from the 16th and 23rd districts of Texas, district attorney, United States senator, and president of the United States.
Rodney Bryant is an American law enforcement officer who served as Chief of Police of Atlanta from June 13, 2020, until June 2, 2022.
This article lists events occurring in Mexico during 2023. It lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels and will include a brief year-end summary of major social and economic issues. Cultural events, including major sporting events, are also listed.
Drozd was among 28 applicants for the top job after Chief Roberto Rivera retired in 2008...
Drozd has served as fire chief since April of 2009 and will be returning to his home State of Florida as fire chief of the Orange County Fire Rescue Department,
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)El Paso Fire Chief Otto Drozd has submitted his resignation to the City of El Paso with an effective date of Nov. 23, 2012.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)El Paso Fire Chief Sam Peña was named the new chief on March 7, 2013.
City officials said Peña's last day as El Paso's fire chief will be Dec.10.
Mario D'Agostino was named Fire Chief of the El Paso Fire Department on April 13, 2017 by El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez.
Killings, who has been serving as interim fire chief since May,...
Jonathan Killings was appointed as the City of El Paso's fire chief, the city announced Friday.
