1837-1847 Spring Street, at South Street (w/Casco E-1). 

1837-1844 Fire Company No. 4 

February 15, 1837 – New set of Portland Fire Department Rules and Regulations adopted.  

Several “Fire Companies” were established within their respective Wards (7) to assist at fires, as outlined in the new rules and regulations.

Ward Room 4 was located.

Members were charged with chaining off streets to keep clear for the engines to be maneuvered and would enter burning buildings to save any property.  They were provided canvas bags to place any small valuables in and bed key wrenches to take apart the bed steads.

April 7, 1837 – Fire Company No. 4 organized.

May 31 – Newspaper article noted their efforts, commending their assistance and service at a fire.

July 24, 1839 – Approved purchase of “bucket carriage.”  Built locally was an iron-frame four-wheel carriage with four-tiers of leather buckets, with a capacity for 56 to 70 buckets.  Assigned to Fire Co. 4, it was housed on the Spring Street side of the South Street Engine house of Casco Engine Co. 1.

January 1, 1844 – Fire Companies 2, 4, 5 and 7 disbanded.  The bucket carriage was still brought to fires.  It moved to the Market Street Engine House in 1847, then to South Street City Stables in 1848. 

1854 – PFD annual report listed the bucket carriage not in use.  In 1861, it was disposed of.