The Extra Alarm Association is now publishishing our history of the St. Paul Fire Department.

Now you can view or download a sample chapter of "St. Paul Fire - A History" right here for FREE! The sample includes one complete chapter with photos, the Table of Contents, and one of the many maps that track the development of the St. Paul Fire Department through the years. Click this link to view the book in Acrobat Reader PDF format. If you right-click the link you can save it as a file (811k) to your hard drive and read it off-line.

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This is our second history book, the first being the widely acclaimed history of the Minneapolis Fire Department, "Mill City Firefighters", published in 1981. The "Mill City Firefighters" is no longer available, as a limited edition of 1000 books were produced, and have been long since sold out.

The St. Paul Fire Department History book is 320 pages long and will includes 350+ photographs of apparatus new and old, fire photographs both black and white, and color, as well a graphic maps depicting various stages in the development of the city of St. Paul and its fire department. The book is hard cover and library bound with archival paper used. This is a fully professional style history document. It is not a 'yearbook' styled book.

We are anticipating producing a limited edition of the St. Paul FD history, so we encourage interested parties to indicate their interest in aquiring a copy soon.

The author of the St. Paul Fire Department history is the recently deceased (March 5, 1998) Richard Heath, who was the author of the "Mill City Firefighters" as well. Dick was a true historian, (with a degree in history to prove it!). That not withstanding, his work speaks for itself. Dick published his "Historic Minneapolis Fires" series in our bimonthly newsletter, "The Extra Alarmer" and wrote for the the "Deluge", the Minneapolis firefighters union paper. He was acknowledged as 'the' expert on local fire department history. Below you will find some samples of Dick's work.

Richard Heath's article, "The Great Minneapolis Conflagration of 1893"

Richard Heath's article, "Historical Minneapolis Fires - 1895"