Growing out of initiatives by fire insurance companies to improve fire protection and cut insurance losses, Oklahoma was active in the firefighter professionalization movement as early as the 1894 formation of the Oklahoma Territorial Fireman's Association.

The OAMC firemanship department's class of 1940, the first in the new facility, received certificates in a two-year program.

[1][2] Construction of the Campus Fire Station was started in 1938 and finished in 1939, funded jointly by the college, the city, and the federal Public Works Administration.

It was designed by OAMC architect Philip A. Wilbur, and is located on the campus at Knoblock Street and College (now University) Avenue.

[2] The fire station has a core brick rectangular building, 77 x 82 feet and three stories high, two wings, and a five-story drill tower topped by a steeple.