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Day 5
Episode 5 of 1,000,000. 📸🔴
I was riding through NoDa when I spotted a firefighter standing outside the bay doors of @charlotte_engine07 Charlotte Fire Station No. 7 on North Davidson Street. I pulled over, walked up, and asked if I could upgrade his portrait.
Meet Izaiah Turner — Senior Firefighter at Station 7. He’s not on Instagram, but his station has been on North Davidson Street since 1935. That’s 90 years of showing up.
Here’s what most people don’t know about Station 7: it is one of only three pre-World War II firehouses in Charlotte still operating as an active firehouse today. It was designed by Charles Christian Hook, the same architect behind some of Charlotte’s most iconic civic buildings. When it opened, this neighborhood was a working-class mill village — Highland Park Mill, Johnston Mill, Mecklenburg Mill — and the firefighters at Station 7 were the first line of protection for thousands of families whose entire lives were built around those mills.
The mills closed. The neighborhood changed. Station 7 never left.
Through the economic decline of the 1970s, through the slow rebirth of NoDa in the 1990s, through every fire, every EMS call, every accident on a narrow street in an arts district that didn’t exist when this building was built — Station 7 has been there. The building even had a jail cell in its original design, used to hold rowdy mill workers until police arrived. That’s how essential this place was to the community.
As Charlotte Fire Chief Johnson said just last year: “It’s not just about a building surviving for 90 years. It’s about the people inside — past and present — who have committed themselves to serving this city with pride.”
Izaiah is one of those people. And oh — if you bring your dog by the station, they give out treats. 🐾
This one’s for every civil servant who shows up every day and never asks for recognition. @charlottefire @nodaclt @charlottenc @visitcharlotte @nodaarts @charlottemag @qcitymetro We see you. 🙏
Follow along for Ep 6. We’ve got 999,995 stories left to tell. Tag a first responder in the comments who deserves to be seen. ⬇️@cltgov
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