Engine Company No. 66
Truck Company No. 20
1715 West Florence Avenue
1929 to 1932
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Source: LAFD Photo
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Engine Company No. 66
Truck Company No. 66
1715 West Florence Avenue
LATEST IN FIREMAN'S MANSIONS --
One of the city's most striking fire stations, architecturally speaking, is this one at Florence and Western avenue, opened with formal program last Saturday night. The station will aid materially in combating the fire menace in the southwest part of the city. |
ILLUSTRATED DAILY NEWS
OCTOBER 1, 1929
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Courtesy: Dee Trent, son of Fireman Dee David Trent
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Engine Company No. 66
Circa 1929
Construction Completed
Land Cost:
Building Cost:
Sq.Ft. - Station
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September 7, 1928
$ 4,000.
$41,843.
6,127
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(Engineer Dee Trent pictured seated in
the driver's seat of engine on the right.)
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Courtesy: Dee Trent, son of Fireman Dee David Trent
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Truck Company No. 20
Circa 1929
(The driver is Autofireman Chamness.) |

Courtesy: Dee Trent, son of Fireman Dee David Trent
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Truck Company No. 20
Circa 1929
"Monday Morning Checks"
Every Monday morning the drivers perform a series of apparatus checks. Here the Autofireman is shown measuring the specific gravity of the battery electrolyte. Each cell is checked using a hydrometer.
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Engine Company No. 66
Truck Company No. 20
1715 West Florence Avenue
1933 to 1989
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Source: Steve Clapper, Grandson of Auto Fireman Carl E. Clapper
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Engine Company No. 66
Truck Company No. 66
1938
Bill Cogar
"Red" Moore
Roy Singer
Dave Parrott
Walt Lister
Lawrence Powers
Chief McLaren
Clarence Vernand
Ches Clark
Harry Reeder
Malera Jacobs
Carl E. Clapper
Milo Hawkins
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Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Engine Company No. 66
September 11, 1938
"A" Platoon
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D. Dubin
T. Zumwalt
D. Trent
Capt. A. Leroux |
G. Ewers
L. Kuester
A. Wright
J. Porter
V. Hawtray |
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Source: Steve Clapper, Grandson of Auto Fireman Carl E. Clapper
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Rescue Company No. 66
1938
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Source: Steve Clapper, Grandson of Auto Fireman Carl E. Clapper
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Engine Company No. 66
Truck Company No. 66
1945
"A" Platoon
R.A. Williams
Capt. R.J. Feather, E66-A
Lowe, E66-A
Edward S. Taylor, E66-A
Frank E. Muller, E66-A
Raymond E. Hebert, E66-A
James M. Hammack, T66-A
Carl E. Clapper, Rescue & T66-A
James Sherwood, T66-A
Jack Cappetts
Henry Young
Capt. Ralph M. Stone, T66-A
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FIRE ENGINEERING
May, 1961
Los Angeles fire fighters leap for
their lives as walls of burning two
-story house collapse on March 2.
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FRONT COVER
Call it what you want--an engine man teaching two truckmen how to use a hose line--two truckmen showing an engine man how it's done--but all three agreed on one thing: it was "heads-down-hot" at the stubborn flammable liquids fire on the night of June 12 at the National Supply Company, 241 West 116th Place.
Photo shows Truck Captain Larry Schneider on the nozzle. |
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Source: Chuck Madderom Collection
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-Source: David Blaire Collection
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