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The Manly Volunteer [Fire Fighting] Company was formed in June 1877 and occupied premises in Market Square. The Company was registered with the Metropolitan Fire Board in 1886 as Station No.24. The volunteers owned the premises from which the brigade operated in 1895. A new station in Sydney Road opened 25 February 1898. By 1903 Manly had partially-paid staff. (1)
The first permanent staff were appointed in 1912. A new station on the corner of Sydney Road and Thornton Street opened 17 August 1921. (2)
In 2000 the station address was 128 Sydney Road, Fairlight. (3)
In 2021 Manly Fire Station (station 024) was situated in the Metropolitan East 2 (ME2) Zone. Its address was 128 Sydney Road, Fairlight. (4)
Endnotes
1. Annual Report 1903 p.12.
2. Colin Adrian, Fighting Fire A Century of Service 1884-1984, p.253.
3. NSW Fire Brigades website: http://www.nswfb.nsw.gov.au/about/stations_all.asp?Search_string=GET+FULL+LISTING (accessed 7 August 2000). Copy on State Records File 00/384.
4. NSW Fire and Rescue, Fire Station Finder https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/page.php?id=9210&station=185 (accessed 18 August 2021).
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