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| '''1829''' - An engine house was built for the Friendly Fire Service, a private company.
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| '''1833''' - Town Meeting voted the sum of $365 to build an engine house on Essex Street.
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| 1855 - The town splits. North Andover gets two fire engines; Andover gets one.
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| '''1862''' - The Friendly Fire Society was renamed the Shawsheen Steam Fire Engine Company.
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| '''1882''' - A new fire station was built behind the Town Hall on Main Street
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| '''1895''' - The Ballardvale Station was relocated to the corner of Andover Street and Clark Road.
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| '''1924''' - Andover established a Fire Department with Charles Emerson appointed as the first Fire Chief. By then "horses had become a thing of the past."
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| '''1966''' - A new fire station was built in West Andover on Chandler Road.
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| '''2002''' - In September Main Street Fire Station was razed and construction was begun on a new public safety center to house both fire and police. The police station was completed first. Mello Construction was the construction company for the Safety Center.
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| '''2003''' - Construction on the Fire Station actually began in May 2003 and completed in July of 2004.
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| '''2004''' - The fire station was completed in July 2004
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| '''2006''' - There are three fire stations in Andover:
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| * Central Headquarters at 32 Main Street
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| * West Fire Substation at 200 Greenwood Road
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| * Ballardvale Fire Substation at 1 Clark Road
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| *"Two sites eyed in final Ballardvale fire station plan," ''Andover Townsman'', October 10, 2013, p. 1.
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| --[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] 15:34, August 23, 2006 (EDT) | |
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