Fire Chief: Emanuel Mitchell

Fire Inspector: Garrett Graham

Address: 111 S. Reagan St., PO Box 97, West, TX 76691

Phone: 254-826-5110

*Reporting a fire or control burn contact McLennan County Sheriff’s Office 254-757-522

The West Volunteer Fire Department was established in 1894 as the West Hose Company #1. The first equipment for West Hose Co. #1 was a Hose Reel drawn by a rope tied to a volunteer’s saddle horn. In the late 1890s the equipment was upgraded to a fire wagon drawn by a black stallion. By the turn of the century a two horse “Modern Seagraves” Fire Carriage was purchased.  In 1915 the first motorized apparatus was purchased – a Cadillac Hose Truck with a 40 gallon chemical tank. The first “pumper” for the Fire Dept was a 1925 Reo with a 500 gpm (gallons per minute) pump. In 1929 a Ford Model A was added to the Fire Dept. fleet.

The fire department was originally stationed in the historic city hall, then the city garages, and  finally, was moved to its current location in 2003.