Back row-Roy Kroll, Murl Daugherty, Jim Rogers, Paul Bender. Front row-Allan Benefield, Bur Orrick, Clan dePollard, Rod Blade, Chief Warren Hughes, Vacaville Fire department

Chief Warren Hughes and Don Powell with children at rear of fire truck - 1966

Warren Hughes, Richard Rico, Jim Coates

Vacaville Fire Department. Louie Pester, Gary Lee Bettenhouser, Warren Hughes, John Rico

Chief Hughes with garbage truck fire - year 1967

This project is a direct result of the desire of Fire Chief Robert A. Powell, the fourth paid Fire Chief of the Vacaville Fire Department, to have accumulated in one place the most accurate and complete history of the Department possible. Several sources of information were used in researching this work. The majority of the information came, however, from three sources: Vacaville's history book entitled "Vacavllle, the Herltage of a California Communlty" by Ronald H. [...]

Dixon Fire Department

Suisun, California - Spinney #14, Suisun fire engine of 1861. A hand pumper, made in Boston in 1857 and first used by the San Francisco Fire Department, Fire Chief Carol Hall, photos taken Sept 6, 1968

Vaca Fire Department list

Fire Department Tower