fire station

structure or other area where firefighters and their vehicles and equipment is housed
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fire station

Summary

fire station ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,756 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fire station is a type of building[2].
  • fire station is a type of emergency service station[3].
  • fire station is a type of garage[4].
  • fire station is a type of workshop[5].
  • fire station is a type of common room[6].
  • fire station is a type of hose tower[7].
  • fire station's Commons category is recorded as Fire stations[8].
  • fire station's occupant is recorded as firefighter[9].
  • fire station's occupant is recorded as fire department[10].
  • fire station's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fire stations[11].
  • fire station's Commons gallery is recorded as Fire station[12].
  • fire station's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=fire_station[13].
  • fire station's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as building=fire_station[14].
  • fire station's topic has template is recorded as Q26119678[15].
  • fire station's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/FireStation[16].
  • fire station's short name is recorded as FwH[17].
  • fire station's different from is recorded as unocuppied fire station[18].
  • fire station's P14541 is recorded as 39hB5g[19].
  • fire station's P14692 is recorded as fire station[20].
  • fire station's P14870 is recorded as ont00001383[21].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include building[2], emergency service station[3], garage[4], workshop[5], common room[6], and hose tower[7].

Why It Matters

fire station ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,756 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → fire station
    P14870 → ont00001383
    Environment ontology id → 03501132
    Openstreetmap tag → amenity=fire_station, building=fire_station
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P3859]]: 03501132"
  2. 6w ago · Pf0al1r · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → fire station
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P14692]]: Q123"
  3. 9w ago · Chalmd · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bbc things id → 029fe329-de30-4a8b-8a9e-f6a1ddf84cde
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1617]]: 029fe329-de30-4a8b-8a9e-f6a1ddf84cde, Adding BBC Things ID"
  4. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 39hB5g
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Fire stations
    Subclass of → —
    Topic has template → Q26119678
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|16 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 12795, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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