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Engine Company No. 4


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  Engine Co. No. 4 
  Truck Co. A transferred in from Engine 3
    (T-A disbanded-crew assigned to WT-1)
  Water Tower No. 1 (Gorter) in service
  Water Tower No. 1 transferred to Engine 24
  Truck Co. No.1 (returned to service)
  Truck Co. No.1 transferred to Engine 10
  Truck Co. No.6 transferred in from Engine 16
  (Number change-Truck 6 changed to Truck 4)
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  Squad 4 in service
. Task Force 4,  Hazmat 4, RA4

  Hazardous Materials Task Force 4, Squad 4, RA 4, RA 804,
  EMS 1, Battalion 1

  (HAZ MAT TF4, SQ 4, RA4 & RA804 moved to FS21)
  (E-21 moved to FS4)
  ENGINE Co. No 4, RA 4, BATTALION 1
 

1888
1900
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1905
1910
1911
1917
1917
1932
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07/1978





06/13/2011
to
Present

26 Plaza Street
16th Street near Hope
227 E. Aliso Street
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800 North Main Street
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450 E. Temple Street

1888 - 1889
1889 - 1900
04/05/1900
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 1948
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12/22/1948
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12/02/2008
to
Present


Engine Company No. 4
26 Plaza Street
1888 - 1889




Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Circa 1888
Walter S. Moore Engine Co. No. 4
26 Plaza Street
Chief Walter S. Moore with trumpet.
Note: The home of Pio Pico (the last Mexican Governor of California) is on right.



Engine Company No. 4
Sixteenth Street, between Grand Avenue and Hope Street
1889 - 1900

Source: Bruce Norman Collection

Engine Company No. 4
Sixteenth Street, between Grand Avenue and Hope Street

Billy Teichman -Hoseman
Mike Naud -Driver
Sam Haskins -Hoseman
Andy Springer -Hoseman
Chas. B. Casey -Hoseman
Walter Bonner -Hoseman
Phillip Myers -Engineer
Otto Guenther -Drive
 

Engine Company No. 4    Truck Company A
227 Aliso Street
1900 - 1919



Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Date Opened

April 5, 1900

Building Cost

$ 15,000.

Source:  LAFD Illustrated 1900
Truck Company A



Source: Rodger Embury Collection


Truck Company A
Circa 1900
1881 65' Hayes Aerial, the first operational aerial in the U.S. was originally assigned as Vigilance Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1.
1896 Assigned to Engine .Co. 3 and becomes Truck Co. A.
1900 Truck Co. A transferred to Engine Co. 4.
1905 Truck Co. A disbanded and crew assigned to the new company Water Tower No. 1.

Courtesy Mrs. Bert Blake


Water Tower No. 1

Circa 1905

Water Tower 1 on a run past quarters.


Water Tower 1

Built by Henry H. Gorter at the LAFD shops and commissioned July 1, 1905.

Water Tower 1 remained at Engine Co. 4 until the opening of the new
Engine Co. 24, August 10, 1910.

PRISONERS ARE DUCKED
County Jail Is Wet Down
by Streams Form the Water Tower

The Los Angeles Evening News, May 24, 1906


Source: Fred Allen Collection



Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
 
Water Tower No. 1

Circa 1910

 Driver Jim Tanzola, Leland Davis, Happy Baker  

Source: Photo by Turk & Haelsig
1908


Engine Company 4

Source: Photo by Turk & Haelsig
1908


Water Tower No. 1

Source: Fred Allen Collection

Circa 1900


Source: Photo by Durston


'The Boys at Home with the Band'
Night of May 5, 1915
Engine 4, Truck 1

Source: Photo by Durston
Courtesy of the E. William Henry Family


Engine Company 4
Bunking-Out for a late night Run.
(Note: William F. Henry on far left)
Circa 1910

(Note: Guard rails were installed around all unprotected pole holes shortly after Truckman Walthall Fitch, Truck Co. 1 fell to his death down this pole hole on October 30, 1911.)


S
ource: Photo by Durston
Courtesy of the E. William Henry Family


Hitching Up
May 5, 1915

Engine Company 4 and Water Tower 1
(Note: William F. Henry sitting in the left seat of the Wagon)

Source: Photo by Durston


"Turning out into the night
at Engine Co. No. 4
While the city sleeps"

May 5, 1915


FIRE FIGHTERS
WANTED TO BET
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    Although in his shop when the flames started, F. A. Tennis says he does not know the origin of the fire that destroyed his upholstering establishment at Third and Geary Monday morning.  The shop had been on fire twice before.
    Tennis tried to blame the loss of the building to the slowness of the fire department, but was backed down by an offer of the fire boys to bet $100 they were there within four minutes after the alarm was turned in. The loss was $350;  partly insured.

 

The Los Angeles Record, March 19, 1906


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Circa 1911

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Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Mrs. Bert Blake

Engine Company 4  Truck Company 1
1912

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection


Hose Wagon 4

1912


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Capt. Tuttle, LAFD Retired



On The Run

The Driver is Mr. Keller

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Mrs. Bert Blake



Circa 1912

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Mrs. Bert Blake & Son
 

Engine Company 4
1912

 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Capt. Tuttle, LAFD Retired
 

On The Run
1912

Pumper from Eng. Co. 4 heading south on Los Angeles Street from Aliso Streett.

Note Fire Station 4 in background.

Driver Dan Waldschmidt Jr.
(later Assistant Chief and father of Captain Dan Waldschnidr Jr. (1938-1968)

The horse on the left of the team is Molly, the only mare used on the LAFD.

The original negative owned by Bud Nease.

 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Courtesy Mrs. Bert Blake
Engine Company 4
1912


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Truck Company No. 1
1911
Truck Company No. 1 back in service at Engine 4 with a 1910 Anderson City Service Truck.




Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Capt. Tuttle, LAFD Retired
Truck Company No. 1

Circa 1911

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THE WRATH OF ISAAC
ROTH
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    Isaac Roth, the cigar merchant, turned in a fire alarm one night early in April, because he found a hydrant leaking and filling his cellars with water.
    The fire department answered and was very wroth at Roth.
    Roth's wrath at the water department changed to wrath at himself when he found that he had violated a city ordinance, but he pleaded not guilty and threatened to fight the case.
    He changed his mind during the holidays and on Monday went into Police Judge Rose's court and pleaded guilty.  He was fined $5.

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The Los Angeles Record, June 11, 1906

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Frank Manwarren LAFD Photographer
Squad Company No. 1

1916
Lieut. E. C. Phelps
Driver E.H. Danzile
Tail Board-
Vern Howard (next to axe)
G. M Smith
   

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