All-Black Fire Company, Crestas Terrace - Northeast African American Historic Places Map (sitios de interés)

Founded on August 27, 1927, the Crestas Terrace neighborhood contained the first all-black fire companies in Pennsylvania. At the time of its organization there was no fire-fighting equipment, and buckets of water had to be used to douse a fire. The company received its first hand-drawn chemical tank by Westinghouse Electric company. This represents an important establishment organized and run by blacks when there were almost no black-run fire stations in the county outside of Pittsburgh.