The station opened on Camp Road in 1961.

Over the past five decades, many grateful residents and businesses have been visited by the station's fireys with fires extinguished or false alarms invariably the outcome.

John Cranston, who has worked at the Broadmeadows fire station "on and off" over 30 years, remembers when his father, Frank, began working there in the 1970s. Back then, there were limited resources and a lot more grassed areas in Broadmeadows.

"There were two trucks at the station and the crew could go for many hours on end on grassfires, because Broadmeadows was in a rural type of area, near a lot of paddocks," he said.

"Then, it was the Broadmeadows City Council, and the brigade covered that whole government area.

"They had a big response area and fought a lot of grassfires which could go from 7am to 7pm in summer."

When the fire station opened in 1961, Broadmeadows was already a rapidly developing area with about 14,300 buildings serviced directly by the fire station. The station's busiest period was during the 1981-82 drought. Between November 1, 1981, and January 15 the following year, crews attended about 350 grassfires.

Mr Cranston was five when the station opened and remembers attending the annual Christmas parties to which the community and family and friends of the firefighters were invited.

He said it was great to reach the station milestone.

"It's fantastic for the community, for the city of Hume to have a station that's able to respond so promptly, not only for fire but medical responses," he said.

"Lots of things have changed over the years. Fire was our main expertise back then. It's not only about fire now; it's about community education to prevent those fires. That's the big difference from then to now."