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The Young America Engine Company Number 6 firehouse at 915 Ninth Street celebrated 75-years of service in January of 1933 with a large party and a large cake. According to newspaper accounts of the event, held in what was then known as Plaza Park, the huge treat prepared for the festivities was rushed by children and park hangers-on, resulting in a flurry of frosting that flew in all directions. Organized by residents of Sacramento's third ward in June of 1855, the company and station transitioned into the first fire department west of the Mississippi in 1872 when the State Legislature voted to create a paid department manned from the ranks of the volunteer departments.
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