Havelock Fire Department formed so Havelock residents no longer depend on MCAS Cherry Point Fire Department and Newport Fire Department for fire response
1st station built for $5,600 for the structure of the building; $1,200 for the floor; interior completed by volunteers (Current building of the city planning department)
28 Chartered Members-all male
Military Surplus 530 and Ashford Oil Company 1200 gal. ex-fuel truck in operation
Notified of calls via telephone recall and 2 minute Civil Defense siren
1st Howe pumper purchased brand new; later sold for $1,000 (1971)
1936 Ward LaFrance purchased; sold for $600 to Sea Level Fire Department (1972)
1st Rescue Truck 1961 Ford Panel Truck donated to department in early 1970s (1972)
15 Motorola non-portable Alarm boxes and 5 Plectron Alarm boxes purchased for home notification of calls (1972)
Havelock Rescue Squad created as part of the Havelock Fire Department (1973)
1974 Ford Bean purchased for $25,000 replaced the Ward LaFrance; sold for $25,000 to Broad and Gales Creek Fire Department
1st Ambulance purchased with a grant from the Governor's Highway Safety Fund-1974 Dodge
All rescue squad members except for 9 went on strike because of a disagreement regarding the Havelock High School football game ambulance service (1974)
First Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course taught (1974)
Call volume approximately 2 per week (1974)
First paid personnel on duty; 1 per shift working 24 hours on and 48 hours off-Bill Creed, Doug Campen, Danny Willis; responded only with fire trucks, not ambulance or rescue truck (1975)
Only paid personnel allowed to spend the night at the station (1975)
May-Beta Sigma Phi Sorority donated a porta-power hydraulic ram system (1976)
May-First time the rescue squad had 5 calls in one day-showed need for additional ambulance (1976)
September-2nd ambulance purchased from Virginia; 1972 Chevrolet Suburban (1976)
1st woman to join the rescue squad-Eva Sermons; Cherrie Sanders and Betsy Olkowski were the 2nd and 3rd female members that joined shortly after Eva (1976)
Brand new Rescue Truck purchased; originally voted down by the members to purchase but was a definite need and its 1st revealing was at the Christmas Party that year, wouldn't fit in bay produced need for new station (1977)
Prestige van ambulance purchased new from Texas; created 3rd ambulance and Havelock has operated 3 ambulances since this purchase (1978)
1st Jaws of Life purchased with the assistance of Eddie Ellis and the community (1982)
1st paid fire chief-Jimmy Nobles (1982)
City of Havelock switched to the Public Safety format for emergency services (1983)
1st sworn public safety officers-Don Lilly, Jim Drum, Kenny Rhodes (1983)
Began building new facility which was designed by the man who designed the Asheboro zoo and had never stepped foot into a fire department until this one was built (1983)
Havelock Rescue Squad awarded NC State Rescue of the Year for rescuing a woman trapped in her car that was trapped under a tractor trailer filled with wood chips in a ditch filled with cold water (1992)
Call volume increases to approximately 1,000 calls per year (1992)
First off campus Paramedic class (1998)
Havelock Rescue Squad became Paramedic level certified (1999)
Staffed 2 Paramedic/Firefighters per shift working 24 hours on and 48 hours off (1999)
Paid Fire Chief, Fire Marshall, and EMT-I/Firefighter (1999)
