Fire Station No.4: 1218 Randolph

Rebuilt in September 1949. The original station was built in 1908. It was two stories tall and had two bays.

Engine 8 was first quartered in station 4 in the late 1940s.

Fire Station 4 responds to an average of 108 incidents per month. Their response district includes everything from residential roads to Interstate 10 and railways, doctor’s offices, two hospitals, elementary schools, and the University of Texas at El Paso.

Fire Station 4 is El Paso’s oldest active fire station. The station was originally built with two floors and two bays. In 1949 the station was remodeled and the second floor was removed.

During World War II almost everything in the United States was used for the war effort. This included everything from steel and wood to sugar and coffee. Rumor has it that at the time Fire Station 5 was being built that building materials were hard, if not impossible to get. The solution was to remove Fire Station 4’s second floor and use these materials to complete the construction of Fire Station 5.

Station 4 has seen everything from horse-drawn fire apparatus all the way to the current 2003 Pierce 1500 gpm pumper. The pumper has a state of the art Compressed Air Foam System (CAFS), Amkus Hydraulic Rescue Tool, Bullard Thermal Imager, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), Mobile Data Terminal, and most importantly it has air conditioning which is important in the hot desert of El Paso

The station is located in the historic Sunset Heights District. The station is in good company with other historic buildings in this are of the city. Some of these include:

• 1013 W. Yandell – built in 1909, this home was designed and built by its famous owner H.C. Trost.
• 323 W. Rio Grande – built in 1905, this home was used as an important meeting place in 1915 by United States General Hugh Scott and General Francisco Villa, who was a Mexican Revolutionary leader.
• 603 W. Yandell – built in 1912, this is the home of the El Paso Historic Society and is better known as the Burgess House

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