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Orono Fire Needs Assessment <br />7 | Page <br /> <br />2.0 History of Fire Service in Orono <br />Orono has contracted for fire service either formally or informally since being an independent <br />town in 1889. The City was incorporated in 1955 and the first formal fire contracts were <br />developed and implemented in the 1960s. Orono has utilized up to 4 fire departments to <br />supply coverage to the City of Orono and they were Maple Plain, Wayzata, Long Lake, Mound <br />and Excelsior. Each of these departments are over 90 years old. Orono commissioned a fire <br />response study in 1980. See Map 2 for a service boundary from the 1960s to the 1980 study. <br />