31ST ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE

FIRE DEPARTMENT

OF

LOS ANGELES CAL.

 

FOR THE YEAR ENDING

JUNE 30th, 1917

 


Fire Department Report

FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30th, 1917
______________

To the Honorable, The Mayor, The City Council, The Board of
    Fire Commissioners of the city of Los Angeles, California:

Gentlemen:

RECOMMENDATIONS

  I make the following recommendation that a modern fire boat with a capacity of not less than 9000 gallons per minute be purchased, without delay, in order to give adequate fire protecton to shipping, including the eight miles of wharfage and the millions of dollars worth of property in such wharves, at Los Angeles Harbor, as the present method of fighting fires at the Harbor is entirely inadequate to cope with any serious fire, espically with the high winds that prevail there.  I would, also, reccommend that this boat be constructed of steel, that the engines be of the oil burning, internal combustion type, using the same power that propels the boat to also drive the pumps, thereby giving a lighter draught to the boat and greater economy in operation and maintenance.

 

 

Respectfully,                            
               ARCHIE J. ELEY,           
                                        Chief Engineer.

 


Thirty-Ninth

A N N U A L  R E P O R T

OF THE

FIRE DEPARTMENT

OF THE

CITY OF LOS ANGELES
CALIFORNIA


FOR THE YEAR ENDING

JUNE 3Oth, 1925
 

Fire Department

For the Year Ending, June 30, 1925
______________

To the Honorable, The Mayor, The City Council, The Board of
    Fire Commissioners of the city of Los Angeles, California.

Gentlemen:----
    I have the honor to present herewith, in compliance with the requirements of the City Charter, the Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

    After a series of delays that appeared unavoidable, contract was let to the Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corporation, located in San Pedro, for the building of the fire boat authorized by voters on May 6th, 1924, when $400,000 was voted for that purpose. The boat as determined upon by joint conference with the Fire Commission, the City Council, Harbor Board and various organizations representing the interests of the Harbor, will be built at contract price of $214,000. Now that all obstacles are overcome, the construction of the boat is proceeding rapidly, and it is hoped that before November 1st, 1925, the boat will be in service at the Harbor. I do not hesitate to say that it will represent the last word in fire boat construction, and that it will fill a most vital need in the protection of that important district. Ten thousand (10,000) feet of 3 1/2 inch hose, to be carried upon the boat, will shortly be delivered by the Pioneer Rubber Mills who secured that contract. The construction of boat house, of sufficient size to house the fire boat and its necessary crew, as well as additional supplementary engine company, is proceeding rapidly under the able direction of Mr. Charles O. Brittain, City Superintendent of Construction.

 

Respectfully,
               R. J. SCOTT,
                                        Chief Engineer.



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Source: Captain Denny Willahan Collection
Hull Number 47
Fire Boat 2 on the Ways
L.A. Shipyard (later Todd Shipyard)
October 9, 1925

Fire Boat No. 2

Los Angeles City No. 2, a state of the art fireboat with many innovations, was built in 1925 at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp. (Todd Shipyard), San Pedro. Launched October 20, 1925, the $214,000 fire boat, later renamed Fireboat 2, the Ralph J. Scott, originally was gasoline-powered and rated at 10,200 gpm.


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Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection


Fortieth

A N N U A L  R E P O R T

OF THE

FIRE DEPARTMENT

OF THE

CITY OF LOS ANGELES
CALIFORNIA


FOR THE YEAR ENDING

JUNE 3Oth, 1926
 

Fire Department

For the Year Ending, June 30, 1926
______________

To the Honorable, The Mayor, The City Council, and Board of
    Fire Commissioners of the city of Los Angeles, California.

Gentlemen:----
    Complying with the City Charter, I have the honor of presenting herewith the Fortieth Annual Report of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

    The new fire boat which was built by the Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corporation under contract, as a result of a bond issue of $400,000 voted for that purpose on May 6th, 1924, was completed and officially placed in service immediately after October 20th, the date of the launching.  Although not entirely completed at that time, it was placed in the fire service pending completion and official acceptance due to the dire need of additional fire protection at the Harbor.  I am pleased to state that the performance of the boat has been all that was anticipated, and upon the occasion of several very serious fires since its acquirement, it has abundantly proved its value to the Harbor.  The boat house at Berth 227, including quarters for the crew , is completed and occupied.  A paved street reaches the boat house from the eastern side of the channel.  With the fire boat run two tender companies by land, one being located at the fire boat quarters and the other at Engine 53, Mesa and Olivera Streets.  The purpose of these later companies is to carry hose and equipment to fires, and they are usually a very necessary adjunct to the fire boat.

 

Respectfully,
               R. J. SCOTT,
                                        Chief Engineer.



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L A U N C H E D
October 20, 1925

Source: OFFICIAL LAFD PHOTO


Source: OFFICIAL LAFD PHOTO

 

 

HUNDREDS SPRAYED
BY FIRE BOAT

Streams Wet Spectators
and Three Craft Collide in
Tests at Local Port

  Five hundred spectators on a dock and fifteen newspaper and motion-picture cameramen on an observation boat received a wetting, a water taxi had its stern cracked by a stream of water, and the City Council and other official observers narrowly escaped being tipped into the bay in a three-cornered boat collision incidental to the test of the fireboat Los Angeles No. 2 at the harbor yesterday.
    The spectators and cameramen were doused when streams from the fireboat went astray.  The official observers were shaken up when the fishing boat Perina struck the newspaper tug Bedford, which caromed into the official observation boat Pride. 
    The fireboat more than satisfied expectations.  Pumping with six engines, it threw twenty-nine steams aggregating 12,000 gallons to the minute.  A speed test showed more than seventeen miles an hour.
    Included in the official observing party were members of the Council, Fire Chief Scott, L. E. Caverly, vice-president of the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corporation, designers and builders of the boat; George Codrington, general manager of the Winton Motor Car Company, makers of the engines; Port Manager Spear and Port Warded Perry.
    After another week at the shipyard, the boat will take up temporary quarters on the east side of the main channel of the harbor.

Source: Los Angeles Times, November 6, 1925

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