Fire Station 55 Dallas Texas Dallas Fire Station 55 Baylor University Physics Building First Baptist Church of White Settlement Caldwell Elementary, Mc Kinney, Texas Dallas Public Library, Audelia Road Branch Community Savings, Fredricksburg Texas Churchill Way Presbyterian Church LaGrange College Library, Georgia Peoples National Bank Paris, Texas Central Christian Church Sherman Tx Community Tours Main Shelter Tours Main Back to Civil Defense Museum Main		Fire Station 55, Dallas, Texas One of the items I salvaged from the Dallas Civil Defense warehouse when it was cleaned out in 1981 was a Dallas Civil Defense Operations Plan. Included in the 1974 Operations Plan was a map of radiological monitoring stations around Dallas. The map lists some fire stations as monitoring stations with a note about which fire stations have "radiation protection." I set out one day to check out a few of these stations. I think I freaked out the firefighters at the first station I stopped by because they had no idea what I was talking about when I asked them if there was a "bomb shelter" under the station. The station was on the list but I didn't want to bug them so I tried another station. I went by Station 55 in North East Dallas and asked them the same thing and told them about this web site. The firefighter I asked said "Yeah, we got something like that here" and he headed towards the back of the station. Fallout Shelter Sign We walked back down the hall to the back of the station and he showed me the shelter. Here's the Fallout Shelter marking the shelter door in the hallway. The capacity sticker had been peeled off partially and the numbers were missing. When I left I looked at the plaque on the front of the station and it says the station was built in the early 1960s. Stairway This is the stairway down to the shelter. Obviously this little basement room is purposely built as a fallout shelter. There is no mechanical equipment or anything else in the room except for a small air ventilation unit hanging from the ceiling. The air ventilator exhausts into the hallway of the station above. Shelter Room Here is the shelter room with air ventilator. The stairs are behind the wall on the right. It was kind of hard to get a photo without a wide-angle lens. The shelter room is about 15 feet square in size. I would imagine that this room held a pretty nice stock of shelter supplies back in the day. One interesting note. The fire stations with shelters were not included on the public list in the Dallas Community Shelter Plan. I have the engineering firm report of the Dallas CSP that was done for the city and it lists these shelters and some others that were left off the plan as "sensitive facilities."