BFD Personnel

3/19/2025 – Updated Personnel Listings to 2025; New E17/L7 Firehouse; Collection: FLT William Tassinari; 2024 Multiple Alarm Fires;

March 19, 2025 by bostonfireuser

Personnel Listings have been updated to March 2025. Listings

Photographs and information on the new Engine 17 / Ladder 7 / District 7 firehouse at 44 Winter Street, Dorchester. New Firehouse

Collection of photographs and documents of late Fire Lieutenant William A. Tassinari. Collection

List of 2024 Multiple Alarm Fires List

4/24/2024 – Updated Personnel Listings

April 24, 2024 by bostonfireuser

4/24/2024 – The Personnel Listings have been updated to be current to April, 2024.
See Department Personnel List Since 1711 within the Personnel section.

4/18/2024: Cocoanut Grove survivor passes away; Grave sites of Line-of-Duty Deaths & Chiefs of Department – Fire Commissioners

April 21, 2024 by bostonfireuser

4/18/2024: One of the two known survivors of the Cocoanut Grove Fire, Joyce Spector Mekelburg, passed away today in Dedham, Mass., having reached her 100th birthday just two days prior. See a video of Mrs. Mekelburg on the 75th Anniversary in 2017.   Video
Now, the only known survivor is Robert L. Shumway, age 100.
Story of the Cocoanut Grove Fire        Cocoanut Grove Fire Special Section
        Cocoanut Grove Memorial Committee
The grave sites of many Line-of-Duty-Deaths (LODD) and Chiefs of Department and Fire Commissioners have been added to their respective sections with the Personnel section. More grave sites will be added shortly.

Updated Personnel Listings and 2021 Multiple Alarm Fire records

August 26, 2022 by bostonfireuser

The BFD Fire Fighting Force Personnel Listings from 1711 to Present (August 2022) have been updated. See Department Personnel List Since 1711 in the Personnel section.

Multiple Alarm Fires for 2021 have been posted. See Multiple Alarm Records in the Fire Alarm section.

Recent Additions

April 16, 2021 by bostonfireuser

The items listed below have been added to the website over the past several months:

1. Collections: A new listing within the Personnel section containing the personal papers, awards, photographs, ephemera and other items associated with individual members of the Boston Fire Department. Collections

Included in the initial listing of Collections are the following members:

Ahern, John M., Principal Fire Alarm Operator
Baumeister, George J., Lieutenant
Hogan, William T., District Fire Chief
Jones, Gilbert W., Fire Fighter (Arson Inspector)
Nolan, Walter P., Apparatus Operator
Rozanski, Charles M., Fire Captain
Williams, John, Captain

2. Apparatus photos:
Engine 46’s 1914 Robinson hose and chemical wagon, Shop # 304, at quarters, in 1914. Photo
Engine 46’s 1914 Robinson with company members, at quarters, 1914. Photo

3. 51st BFD Memorial Sunday booklet, in 1944. Booklet

4. Group photographs.
     Company members of Engine Company 12, circa 1949. Photo
     BFD members at the Training Academy, Bristol St., South End, circa 1953. Photo
     Two photos of the McCorkle & Murphy memorial plaque dedication ceremony at Engine 24, 434 Warren St., Roxbury, May 2, 1965. Photo 1   Photo 2
     Three photographs of Hoseman Salvatore DiStefano, Engine Company 14, 1946 to 1955.
Photo 1   Photo 2   Photo 3

5. 2018 and 2019 Medal, Awards and Honors Recipients. See the lists of Medal, Awards and Honors in the Personnel section.