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America’s Most Famous Firehouse?

by | Mar 5, 2018 | Departments, Old West Saviors

If Las Vegas, New Mexico, isn’t careful, this heritage town is going to end up with the most famous firehouse in America. The E. Romero Hose & Fire Company building—New Mexico’s first volunteer firehouse, dating to 1882—is well on its way. But until nine years ago, the firehouse sat vacant and decaying, with a roof threatening to fall in. That’s when MainStreet de Las Vegas stepped in to save the building, which was reconstructed after a fire in 1909. Since then, not only the s


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