History
Parque de Bombas in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is a landmark building of architectural and civic importance that served first as the main pavilion for the 1882 Exhibition Trade Fair, then from 1883 to 1990 as the city’s principal firehouse and Puerto Rico’s first fire station. Designed in 1881 by Lt. Colonel Máximo de Meana y Guridi, it was later restored as a museum preserving the history of Ponce’s firefighters through equipment, records, and photographs. Its central story is the 1899 El Polvorín fire, when seven firefighters and one civilian controlled a dangerous blaze, an act that became a lasting part of Ponce’s civic memory.
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Ponce, Puerto Rico · United States
