The Columbus Division of Fire is nearly 200 years old, with 35 stations covering the city. Over the department's long history, some of those stations have garnered interesting nicknames. This led one WOSU reader to ask Curious Cbus "How did the Columbus fire stations such as the ‘River Rats' each get their unique names?" As it happens, a fire station getting a nickname or adopting a mascot is a fairly common practice across the country, and Columbus is no exception. Nearly every station in the Columbus Division of Fire has a nickname or mascot of one kind or another, including a pig, goose, bull, turtle, dragon and Tasmanian devil. Columbus Fire Station 10 is in the heart of Franklinton, a neighborhood with its own nickname: The Bottoms. That name comes from the fact that Franklinton was prone to flooding from the Scioto River before the construction of a protective flood wall.