The Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) provides fire protection and first responder emergency medical services to the City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Honolulu. Founded on December 27, 1850, by Kamehameha III and Alexander Cartwright, the Honolulu Fire Department serves and protects the entire island of O'ahu, covering over 600 square miles (1,600 km2) of territory, home to more than 880,000 residents and over 4 million annual visitors.
1892-1893 HFD Accountant book, which recorded the date that HFD became a paid fire department, March 1, 1893.
The Prairie Queen is a mid-nineteenth-century fire apparatus. It was not actually used by the HFD; it was donated to the department in 1969. But Honolulu firefighters used similar equipment in the 1800s.
Old Engine No.1, a 1938 Seagrave, has shrapnel damage from the attacks on Hickham Field during the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
The second floor of the museum was once the dormitory of the old Kaka’ako firehouse.
Honolulu County, officially known as the City and County of Honolulu, is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The city-county includes both Urban Honolulu and the rest of the neighborhoods on the island of Oʻahu, as well as several minor outlying islands, including all of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands except Midway Atoll.
Downtown Honolulu, the city and county urban center
Honolulu Hale is the county seat, home of the County mayor and council.
The Capitol of the State of Hawaiʻi
Honolulu International Airport
