Editing Highland Park, Michigan (section)

====Fire Department====
The village of Highland Park's fire department was established in 1911. It was housed in the first municipal building at 20 Gerald Street, designed by Albert E. Williams and opened in 1911. Given Highland Park's rapid growth and industrialization in the 1910s and 1920s, the police and the municipal government moved to purpose-built buildings in 1917 and 1927, respectively. The first municipal building was expanded and altered several times until it became the headquarters of the Highland Park Fire Department (HPFD), established in 1917.

At its peak, the fire department employed about 84 firefighters and had four fire stations across the city.<ref>"[http://www.highlandparkcity.us/Services/FireDepartment.asp Fire Department]." ([https://archive.today/20131101075543/http://www.highlandparkcity.us/Services/FireDepartment.asp Archive]) City of Highland Park. Retrieved on November 1, 2013.</ref> One of them was Engine 4, Ladder 3 at 19–21 Sturtevant Street, near Hamilton Avenue (demolished in 2013).<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 30, 2008|title=The Ultimate Sin|url=https://www.nailhed.com/2015/02/the-ultimate-sin.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227060314/https://www.nailhed.com/2015/02/the-ultimate-sin.html|archive-date=December 27, 2017|access-date=June 11, 2020}}</ref>

Highland Park's shrinking population and tax base took its toll. In 1984 the police and fire departments were merged into a Public Safety Department. The fire department again became a separate entity in 2005. By that time, the headquarters building on Gerald Street was deemed uninhabitable. The department moved to an old, 40000 sq. ft. warehouse at 12900 Oakland Park Boulevard, near Oakland Avenue and the Davison Freeway at the edge of the city, where it remained until 2013.

A $2.7 million [[Federal Emergency Management Agency]] grant made available by the [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act]] enabled construction of a new, purpose-built station. It was built on the site of the old police headquarters, demolished in 2012, at 25 Gerald Street, across the street from the condemned Fire Department headquarters. The new fire station was opened on September 3, 2013.<ref>{{cite news|last=Stables Battaglia|first=Tammy|title=2.7M Highland Park fire station up and running.|url=http://www.freep.com/article/20130903/NEWS02/309030021/Highland-Park-Fire|access-date=November 25, 2013|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=September 3, 2013}}</ref>