Northern Nevada African American Firefighters Museum opens in Reno

The Northern Nevada African American Firefighters Museum opened on Saturday, April 23.

The museum, situated contained in the Black Springs Volunteer Fireplace Division, is on Kennedy Drive in North Reno. It is the second such museum in the USA. 

Our Story Inc., and the Reno Historic workforce, a mission of the Historic Reno Preservation Society, wrote the constructing was constructed in 1970 to accommodate the volunteer power, which was initially established in 1956 after the North Reno neighborhood misplaced a number of constructions to fires.

The volunteer division was loaned a truck by the Nevada Division of Forestry and the Workplace of Financial Alternative supplied $1,500 to construct the modest fireplace home, in line with Reno Historic. 

“Thirty volunteer neighborhood members constructed the constructing themselves out of wooden, cement block, and metal. It’s simply giant sufficient to accommodate one automobile,” Reno Historic wrote. “The six volunteer firefighters of the Black Springs division reportedly raised funds to pay for half of their security clothes whereas the Truckee Meadows Fireplace Safety District raised the opposite half.”