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Flashback: Portland’s Central Fire Station, 1953

In this 1953 Press Herald news photograph, firefighters pose with Engine 8 in front of the Central Fire Station on Congress Street in downtown Portland. The same building still serves as the city’s fire department headquarters, as seen below in a January 2013 photograph.

Posted April 4, 2016

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Portland Fire Department Engine 8, in front of central fire station on Congress Street, 1953.

In this 1953 Press Herald news photograph, firefighters pose with Engine 8 in front of the Central Fire Station on Congress Street in downtown Portland.

The same building still serves as the city’s fire department headquarters, as seen below in a January 2013 photograph.

Engine 5 rolls out on a call Friday from the Central Fire Station on Congress Street in this 2013 file photo.

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