In 1823, Spanish Governor Miguel De La Torre, became deeply concerned by a large fire that occurred in Ponce, on February 27, 1820.

This moved the Conde de Marisol, ruler of the island at that time, to create a new voluntary fire-fighting organization.

Finally, Puerto Rico's fire fighting force reorganized in a more permanent manner in 1883 while Maximum Meana was mayor of Ponce.

The governor of the island at the time, Rexford Guy Towell selected Raul Gandara as fire chief.

As a secondary responsibility to attend the Fire Prevention program acting as a preventive nature, as is the education of young people of school age, "Bomberito" program, guidance on areas and sites of assembly and inspection and elimination of fire hazards and research to determine the origin and causes of these.

Under Law 148 of 22 December 1994, empowering the charge for inspection services, reading and endorsement of plans as well as community education on preventive measures and use by the Fire Corps of proceeds.

This program is responsible for planning the work that will fulfill the public policy of the Fire Corps, provisions of its organic law, the Governor's executive orders and other mechanisms to safeguard life and property.

This program provides accounting, budget, procurement, audit, general services, mail, human resources, information systems, legal, public relations and transportation.

The "Division de Operaciones Especiales" (DOE) (Special Operations Division) is responsible for incidents that require specialized equipment or the emergency is one of critical levels for the population, such as large-scale fires, fuel spills or hazardous materials, landslides, searching for people in rubble, among others.

Every member is trained in fire and accident prevention, search for people in debris, use of specialized equipment, hazardous materials, among others.

The management area consists of the divisions of Finance and Budget, Purchasing and Supply, Information Systems, Property, General Services and inactive files.

With eleven (11) districts located in: San Juan, Bayamón, Carolina, Rio Piedras, Caguas, Humacao, Ponce, Guayama, Mayagüez, Aguadilla and Arecibo.

On the evening of December 31, 1986, a group of employees of the Dupont Plaza Hotel in the San Juan tourist district placed opened cans of a flammable liquid commonly used in chafing dishes in a storage room adjacent to the ballroom on the first floor of the hotel.

The Humberto Vidal explosion was a gas explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store, located in the Río Piedras area of San Juan, Puerto Rico, that killed 33 people and injured 69 others when the five-story building collapsed on February 21.

The explosion occurred around 8:35 in the morning on Thursday, November 21, 1996, in the middle of a bustling commercial center in Río Piedras.

The six-story building that housed shoe, jewelry and music stores as well as the headquarters of the Humberto Vidal Shopping Center were literally destroyed and later demolished.

The President of the United States, Bill Clinton, declared a disaster area and the victims were helped with federal resources, including the assistance of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which initiated the investigation.

On October 23, 2009, at 12:23 AM, seven oil storage tanks from the Caribbean Petroleum Corporation (CAPECO) in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, exploded causing an expansive wave from the epicenter into a five-mile radius.

Puerto Rico Fire Corps units from the towns of Bayamón, Cataño, and Guaynabo arrived at the scene 15 minutes after the explosion.