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Black Eagle Volunteer Fire Department

The Black Eagle Fire Department is a Volunteer Fire Department Located in the Unincorporated community of Black Eagle, Montana, just outside the city limits of Great Falls.

The department was officially formed in 1972 by order of the Cascade County Commissioner's to provide fire suppression services after talk broke down with the City of Great Falls Fire Department, who up to that point had provided fire suppression services on a fee paid to them from the residents of Black Eagle. Instead of using this money to pay the City of Great Falls Fire Department, members of the Black Eagle community decided to form a Volunteer Fire Department to serve the needs of the community (Designated Rural Fire District #10).

Shortly after the Fire Department was formed, donations were raised, land was donated and apparatus were secured. The donated plot of land was now home to Black Eagle's First and only fire station, housing room for 3 apparatus, a training area, a kitchen, and an office. Firefighters were trained but not paid.

Over the course of the next several years, mutual aid agreements were signed with other departments, including the City of Great Falls Fire Department. Black Eagle, inherited a secondary district when the Cascade County Commissioner's created the Rural District Fee Service Area (Designated Rural Fire District #3) in the Northern portion of Cascade County.

After the implementation of the second district, Black Eagle Fire was technically a fire station with two different departments. One, was the City department covering Black Eagle, the other was the Rural department, covering the outlying area. It was decided at that time that all apparatus would carry the number 3 on it as to