Whitehall Fire Company - Station No. 2
N 40° 21.540 W 080° 00.001
17T E 584910 N 4468083
This substation of the Whitehall Fire Company is located at 601 Weyman Road in Whitehall Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Waymark Code: WMGKDY
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 03/16/2013
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Whitehall Fire Company - Station No. 2 - Whitehall (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania
Even before there was a Whitehall Borough, there was a Whitehall Fire Company. The company held its first meeting on November 1, 1946, fifteen months before the Borough was incorporated. By June of 1947, the company had raised enough money to purchase its first piece of apparatus, a 1930 Seagrave pumper truck. The only problem was that there was no firehouse to store the truck, so it was kept on property owned by Fire Chief Chester Sayre. Meetings were held either in Chief Sayre’s garage or at the South Hills Sportsmen’s Club. Fire calls would be taken by the Brentwood Police and relayed to the Sayre residence. Mrs. Sayre would then activate a fire siren and call the homes of two other firemen whose wives would activate sirens located at their homes as well.
A sub-station opened in 1954 near the intersection of Grove and Baptist Roads, what is now the Giant Eagle parking lot. A new firehouse was built later at its this