Call 73103 - The Beginning of the Bigfork Volunteer Fire Department
Bigfork firefighters responding to a call in 1950. (Credit – Bigfork Volunteer Fire Department)
Bigfork fire department responding to a call in 1948. (Credit – Bigfork Volunteer Fire Department)
The first fire hall with the “Old No.1 fire engine. (Credit – Bigfork Volunteer Fire Department)
Bigfork fire department Old No.1 fire engine prior to its demise. (Credit – Bigfork Volunteer Fire Department)
Bigfork fire department responding to a brush fire. (Credit – Bigfork Volunteer Fire Department)
Bigfork fire department volunteers getting ready for the Firemen’s Ball. (Credit – Bigfork Volunteer Fire Department)
The original location of the Bigfork fire hall undergoing one of several re-models. (Credit – Daily Inter Lake)
Chief Nelson and one of the engines in 1958. (Credit – Daily Inter Lake)
In the early days, during the downtown fire of 1912 for example, or the infamous Bigfork Inn fire on January 7, 1937, when it was 20 degrees below zero and all the water froze as neighbors ran their garden hoses to the fire trying to squelch the flames, Bigfork relied on an ad hoc assortment of call when needed volunteers and generally virtuous people to serve as the fire brigade. Perhaps it was that fire in 1937, or just the right group of people at the right time recognizing a community need but, on August 18, 1941, 24 residents officially came together to create the Bigfork Fire Department. ...
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