List of fire department specialty facilities
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This is a list of specialty facilities of fire departments, besides fire stations, and not including fire lookout towers. Specialty functions include:
- supporting separate water systems for firefighting, distinct from the main municipal water systems of cities
- fire alarm headquarters
For buildings which include a fire stations as well as some of these functions, see list of fire stations
Notable specialized facilities include:
- in the United Kingdom
- Defence Fire Training and Development Centre
- London Fire Brigade Museum, in former London Fire Brigade headquarters
- in the United States
- Pumping Station No. 2 San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System (1912), which supports the separate firefighting water supply system in San Francisco, California
- Fire Alarm, Telegraph and Police Signaling Building, Troy, New York
- Tulsa Fire Alarm Building, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Fire Alarm Station, Tacoma, Washington
- Milwaukee Fire Department High Pressure Pumping Station (1931), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which provided high pressure water to fight fires in an industrial area, replacing use of a fireboat
- Fire Department Headquarters-Fire Alarm Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
For training, numerous, often included in fire station facilities, but sometimes separate: