List of firefighting monuments and memorials

1891 monument in Hoboken, New Jersey

The list of firefighting monuments and memorials covers firefighters' contributions, and some memorials to other fire victims, such as the mass memorial to unknown victims of the 1871 Peshtigo fire, which caused the greatest loss of life of any fire in the United States. Several of the monuments and memorials are listed on historic registers such as, in the U.S., the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Australia

  • Firefighters' Memorial Grove or Firefighters Memorial Grove (2014), Kings Park, Western Australia[1][2]
  • Mooney Memorial Fountain (1880), Brisbane, Queensland
  • Firefighters Memorial Wall, CFA Training College, Fiskville, Victoria, access closed in 2015[3]
  • Victorian Emergency Services Memorial, Melbourne, Victoria, expected to be complete by 2019.[3]
  • Fallen Firefighter Memorial, Richmond, Victoria[4]

Canada

  • Canadian Firefighters Memorial, Ottawa, dedicated in 2012[5]
  • The Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917 involved a blast and fires which killed more than 2,000 persons. One memorial work was the Halifax Explosion Memorial Sculpture which was located at the Halifax North Memorial Library, itself another memorial to the event.
  • Ontario Firefighters Memorial, Toronto

Germany

Poland

A 1986 stamp commemorated the Warsaw Fire Guard

Portugal

  • Monumento ao Bombeiro, Sintra

United Kingdom

  • National Firefighters Memorial (1998), London
  • Statue of James Braidwood (2008), located in Parliament Square in Edinburgh, Scotland. He founded what is asserted to be the world's first municipal fire service, in Edinburgh, after the Great Fire of Edinburgh in 1824.
  • Plaque for firefighter William Rae, Hunter Street, Glasgow[6]

United States

Nebraska Firefighter & EMS Memorial, Kearney, Nebraska

See also

References

  1. ^ "Firefighters' Memorial Grove | Monument Australia". monumentaustralia.org.au.
  2. ^ "Memorial a fitting tribute to firefighters". 5 May 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Firefighters Memorial".
  4. ^ "Fallen Firefighter Memorial | Monument Australia". monumentaustralia.org.au.
  5. ^ "Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation | Canadian Firefighters Memorial".
  6. ^ "On the trail of Glasgow's fire heroes". Glasgow Times. 12 February 2013. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  7. ^ "California Firefighters Memorial". California Fire Foundation.