The following articles about the Edmonds Fire Department were published in the Edmonds Tribune-Review:

March 25, 1921
Edmonds to Have Up-To-Date Chemical Engine with Ford Chassis
Apparatus Will Give Us Fire Protection Equal to Large Cities and Lower Insurance Rates

Edmonds is to have an up-to-date chemical fire engine with all practical things necessary to give us the best type of fire protection. The chassis will be here in about a week, and the tank and remainder will be ready for delivery about the same time if nothing intervenes to prevent it.

This happy conclusion has been brought about by the hard work of Fire Chief A.B. Bently, Councilman John Schmidt, Messrs. Russell Mowat, F.M. Carpenter and G.G. Evensen; Bently, Mowat and Carpenter representing the Chamber of Commerce and the others the city council. The money to pay for the equipment was secured by personal solicitation and the subscription list is as follows: Yost Auto Company $100, Edmonds Volunteer Fire Department $130, and there were many other $50, $25, $10, and $5 donations.

The chemical tank and equipment will be mounted on a Ford chassis, which has already been bought from the Yost Auto Company for $670, while the remainder of the outfit, which includes tanks mounted on a steel frame, roof ladder, extension ladder, 150 feet of hose, small extinguishers, tools, extra chemical tanks, etc., is to be purchased from the City of Seattle, where it has been in use until just recently as a horse-drawn chemical engine. It has now been replaced by motor-driven vehicles. For this reason it can be depended on to be up-to-date in every particular and practical apparatus for Edmonds for a long time to come.

The town can be congratulated on being able to secure such an outfit at such a reasonable price, and certainly owes a debt of gratitude to the able committee which has brought the matter to such an end.

May 20, 1921
New Fire Engine Given First Real Run to a Fire Friday Afternoon
Old Royal Hotel Building Saved by Prompt Work of Edmonds Volunteer Firemen

Edmonds new fire engine and apparatus was given its first real test Friday afternoon when an alarm was turned in from the Royal Hotel at the foot of Main Street. It was the work of but a few minutes to gather together the volunteer firemen, and soon the truck went tearing down the street with firemen all over it and the siren screeching away for a clear track.

On arrival at the scent of the fire, it was seen to be in the roof or upper part of the building. W.W. Womer acted as nozzle man and soon had the water going. In a very few minutes they had it under control, without the necessity of turning on the chemicals, water alone being used. The damage was confined to the second story, mostly around the roof, but water caused some damage on the first floor. Probably the total damage will run about three-hundred dollars.

It is sure that without prompt work on the part of the firemen the building would have certainly burned and probably those near it, and perhaps the whole block west of it would have gone. Too much cannot be said in praise of the new engine and the firemen.

May 27, 1921
Don't Monkey with the Fire Wagon; say Firemen After Boys Tamper With it

An urgent invitation to the boys of the town not to monkey with the new fire engine or apparatus is cordially extended by Fire Chief A.B. Bently and the rest of the crew. This edict was found necessary after the discovery recently that someone had tampered with parts of the apparatus until it would not work properly.

The firemen point out that there is no time at a fire to make adjustments and connect parts, and that the misplacing of a part or loosing of a bolt may mean the loss of someone's home or a business block.

Boys don't touch the new fire engine - we don't need it often but when we do need it we need it bad!