Diamond Fire Co.

Hazleton's Diamond Fire Co. at Sixth and Church streets is one of three firehouses remaining in the city. When it was founded in 1890, the company first used a shed at the rear of Otto Brien's hotel at Third and Alter streets. The Diamond Coal and Land Co. donated money, a hose cart a nozzle and 300 feet of hose for the new company that would provide fire protection in the city's new Diamond Addition. In 1890 the borough bought the Church Street parcel and a three-story wooden structure was built to serve as headquarters for the company. In 1906 construction began on a new firehouse and the original firehouse was sold and moved to the northeast corner of Ninth and Vine streets. The fire company, which had secured its own charter in 1898, held meetings at various halls and kept its apparatus in a city-owned building on North Wyoming Street and at storage sheds in the city's north side.The new building was dedicated in February 1907. The city recently made improvements to the building.