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Auburn New Hampshire is a community of 4700 residents occupying 1800 households and businesses over a 28 square mile area. The landscape includes 95 miles of public roads plus many miles of woodland roads and trails. 2500-acre Lake Massabesic lies mostly within Auburn and serves as the municipal water supply for the City of Manchester and surrounding communities. Four other water bodies ranging in size from 22 to 72 acres are also located within our boundaries.

The Auburn Fire Department was established in 1935 by a group of residents who organized a membership with a central fire station (literally a barn) and one fire truck. These original members responded when the local telephone operator called several of them to tell of an emergency. Family members would in turn call other firefighters to pass the word. The first member to arrive at the fire station would sound the roof siren to alert members living nearby.

Today the Auburn Fire Department consists of about 50 members including two full time fire fighters who are on duty weekdays, two fire stations and eight apparatus. Members respond to 911-calls when they are paged by Derry Fire Dispatch: something that happens about 450 times a year. Derry Fire provides Auburn with 911-dispatch and ambulance service.

Like most fire departments, Auburn Fire works cooperatively with fire departments in surrounding towns. We provide personnel and equipment for them during large-scale incidents in return for the same favor when similar events occur in Auburn. Without such “mutual aid agreements”, we would all need far more members and equipment to go it alone. Many thanks to the Derry, Manchester, Hooksett, Candia and Chester Fire Departments with whom we often work and train together.