In 1901, the fire department received its first alarm and responded to deployed hoses and water more effectively than ever before.

The chemical truck was named "Old Soda Fountain" and saved multiple buildings while in service.

In early 1905, Chief Alder was sent to Kansas City to choose some recruits and a horse team, leading to the first paid fire department in Tulsa.

On October 24, 1917, two firefighters, Ross Shepard and Ben Hanes, were killed while fighting a fire at the Mayo Building when they fell through a stairwell.

On July 1, 1926, the end of the fiscal year showed that the Tulsa Fire Department had responded to 1,091 alarms.

In 1931 each man signed a contract saying they would pay the survivors of an active firefighter in the event they died on or off the job.

In 1931 the fire department had 161 men, 12 pump trucks, 4 ladders, and 3 hose carts.

In 1941, Captain J.C. Warf was thrown from an open cab Seagrave pumper truck during a collision at Pine and Rockford.

Captain Warf died at the age of 51 the next day at Hillcrest Medical Center.

In 1949 Fire Station #16 was opened and equipped with a 1949 500 gallon American La France Pumper.

The fire brought attention to the fact that firewalls weren't being built in multi-dwelling buildings such as the London Square Apartments.

In 1965 the Tulsa Fire Department started installing the microwave teletype which would replace underground cables.

Tulsa Fire Department created a 4-minute response time standard for EMS calls in 1981.

In 1982, members of the Tulsa Fire Department were called to Crutchfield Park to fill a small pool with water for the filming of The Outsiders.

In 1982, Dwight Wilson of Station 19 was awarded the Certificate of Merit by the American Red Cross for resuscitating a 15-year-old boy who was exposed to smoke.

The station had received hundreds of calls of power outages, damaged properties, civilian casualties, and the total loss of life at 60.

Ray Driskell was chosen to be the next chief of the fire department on May 2, 2012, by former Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett.

[5][6][7][8] Michael Baker started his term as chief of the fire department on June 16, 2020, by Mayor Bynum.

[9] Chief Baker has served more than thirty years in public safety, and twenty-five of those with the Tulsa Fire Department.

He's played a key role in the development of the fire department's Community Assistance, Referral, and Education Services (CARES) program.

Chief Baker stated the grant would be spread across three years and will be used to fill sixty empty positions within the department.

[12] In January 2022, Tulsa news channel KJRH reported an increase in structure fires compared to years prior.