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Sandy Fire recounts more than a century of service as department grows toward new Station 31
Summary
Retirees and current members told an oral history of the Sandy Fire Department’s origins and growth, highlighting volunteer roots, community-funded equipment, paramedic training, and recent expansion to 103 personnel amid construction of Fire Station 31.
Speaker 1 opened the presentation by saying the program was intended to help many new staff "realize what makes Sandy City such an outstanding place to work," and noted the department has reached 103 personnel as Fire Station 31 is being built. "We've hit a 103 people this year," Speaker 1 said, framing the oral history as context for recruitment and training.
Speakers traced the department’s earliest roots to a city hire in 1893 of a fire inspector and the formal organization of the Sandy Fire Department in 1908 with 12 members. Speaker 2 described early youth outreach through a Sandy Youth Fire Club in 1912 that taught basic firefighting skills to 12‑ to 14‑year‑olds and said…
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