Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Engine Company No. 10
Truck Company No. C
South Hill Street near Sixteenth Street

Circa 1899

Source: LAFD Illustrated 1900

Engine Company No. 10
Truck Company No. C

1900

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Howley Collection

Truck C
1898 Seagrave & Co. City Service Truck
Circa 1900



Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Howley Collection
Circa 1910
Wagon 10
Fire Extinguisher Co.
Combination Hose Wagon w/1-60 SA

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Porter's Collection
1899 La France 2nd Size SN# 12
under going Acceptance Test

Engine 10 on a Run
Circa 1910

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Mrs. Lawrence Cason
Hose Wagon 10
Driver Joe Sepulveda,  Captain Wm. Banning
Standing L-R;   ?,  P. J. Sullivan,  ?
Circa 1920

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Capt. Orra MacKillip
Engine and Hose Wagon 10
Circa 1920

1911

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Happy Baker, LAFD Ret.
Engine 10, Truck C
1906

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Fun for the Kids

    "We just wanted to see the horses run."
    This is what 12-year-old Eddie Randolph (colored) told Patrolman Leon was the reason that he (Eddie) and Pablo Wetmore, a little Mexican boy, turned in a false alarm of fire from box 24 at the corner of Alpine and Buena Vista streets, and then hurried away toward school, form which place they saw the horses come tearing down the street with the fire engine, sending a cloud of sparks and fire skyward.
    Of course there was a lot of maddened firemen when they arrived on the scene of the supposed conflagration, to discover that it was only a false alarm.  Patrolman Leon was made acquainted with the facts and he stepped over to the Castelar street school, where he soon ferreted out the mischief-makers.
    Sniffing audibly were both of the youthful law-breakers when they were marched up before Judge Chambers.
    "What made you boys turn in that false alarm?" questioned the court, glaring down at the youngsters with his fiercest frown, manufactured epically for the occasion.
    "Wa-a-a-a-a-hoo-o-o-o-o!" blubbered the frightened lads.  "We--didn't---know--wha--wha--whaat we wuz doing."
   "Didn't know what you were doing?  Boys as old as you two?  Hump!  That sort of a story didn't go worth a cent. Which one of you was it that turned in the alary?"
     "I--I--borke the glass," confessed Pablo, digging his fingers into his eyes.
    "An'--an'--nen I pulled somethin' down," explained Eddie, "An' nen purty soon we seen the horses a-coming' an' we runned, we did."
    "H-m-m-m!  And now you say you don't know what you were doing?  This looks pretty serious," and his honor looked savagely down upon the youthful offenders as though he would eat them a la ogre style.
    The mother of the Randolph boy accompanied him into court.  It appeared that her offspring had been arrested a year ago for some offense and was rapidly tobogganing downward through his malicious, mischievous pranks.
    "That boy is old enough to know better," exclaimed Judge Chambers.  "He can't make me believe he didn't know what he was doing. I am going to continue this case a week, and I want you to keep that kid out of mischief meantime or he'll suffer the penalty."
    Grimy tears were coursing down the dusky cheeks of the youngsters as they were led away.  The court will meantime investigate the previous records of both lads.

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ENGINE DRIVER IS DISMISSED
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Battalion Fire Chief
Prefers Charges of
Intoxication Against Fireman

    Driver  O. J. Lambe of engine company No. 10 was dismissed from the service by the fire commission yesterday on a charge preferred by John G. Todd, battalion chief of district No. 2.  that he was intoxicated Thursday evening.

    Complaint was made to the chief by Captain McMahon of No. 10, who claimed that Lambe reported for duty Thursday evening in an inebriated condition and that when he was notified that he was suspended from duty became boisterous and grappled with the captain, tearing his uniform shirt.

    Lambe has been before the commission on a similar charge once before, but as he has always been a good fireman he was allowed to go with a reprimand.

The Los Angeles Herald, August 18, 1906

The Los Angeles Express, March 17, 1906

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Lawrence & Stella Casin
Circa 1920

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Happy Baker, LAFD Ret.

Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Mrs. O.B. Lewis