Engine Company No. 13

The Companies		The Fire Houses
Hose Company No. 3 (Hose 3 moved to 1401 S. Central) Engine Company No. 13 . ENGINE COMPANY 13, RA 13	3/1/1900 -1904 . 1904 . Present	2669 West Pico Blvd. . . 1206 South Vermont Ave.	3/1/1900 - 1950 . . 11/9/1950 - Present

Hose Company. No. 3
Corner of Pico and El Molino Streets

Source: LAFD Illustrated 1900

Hose Company. No. 3
Corner of Pico and El Molino Streets
1900

Date Opened	March 1, 1900
Land Cost	$ 600.
Building Cost	$ 5,600.

Engine Co. No. 13
2669 West Pico Boulevard

Source: LAFD ANNUAL REPORT NUMBER 19
1904

Source: Turk & Haelsig Photo
1908

Source: LAFIRE Collection Photo by Sanford Hose Wagon 13 1912 Driver J. T. McCann NOTE: Engine House 13 in background.	Source: LAFIRE Collection Photo by Sanford Engine 13 1912 Driver L. P. Nidever Horses; Nimbo and Jumbo
Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection Howley Collection Engine Co. No. 13 1916 2669 West Pico Boulevard Driver - Logan Nidever Engineer - Mangone

Source: Fred S. Allen Post Card

FIRE ENGINE STUCK IN MUD

While on their way to a fire at 1328 Union avenue, Engine No. 13 ran into difficulties at Pico and El Molino when the apparatus became stuck in the mud between the street car tracks. For forty minutes the firemen and members of the car crew struggled to extricate the fire wagon to no avail. At last a tow was arranged to a street car and the engine ignominiously pulled onto a solid footing. The fire, incidentally, had been extinguished by neighbors through the use of pails of water.

1907

Source: LAFIRE Collection

Engine Co. 13
1911
Captain Brufiat, Lieutenant Young, Lind,
Hendrikson, Engineer Baldwin,
McCann and Knudson

Source: LAFIRE Collection

Engine Company 13
1916
Lieutenant M. Young, N. Smith, J. T. McCann,
L.P. Nidever, J. E. O'Connell, J. J. Terrel,
and C. E. Gahan

Source: LAFIRE Collection
Fred S. Allen Post Card
The Rec. Room
1916

CITIZENS OBJECT
TO BALKY HORSE
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Pico Heights has raised its voice in protest against the maintenance of a balky horse at Engine Co. 13. The residents want a horse that can be relied upon to get to fires.
Their ire was aroused by the refusal of the horse to respond to an exhibition run which Chief Lips had planned to convince the residents that their property is protected. The horse refused to leave the house. The chief's game was spoiled.
The exhibition run was planned for Wednesday afternoon. After the disclosure of the "scandal," residents made inquiries and found that the horse constitutes one reason for the failure of the department to respond to alarms in a reasonable time. They will ask the department to "fire" the horse, efforts of other dissatisfied citizens to "fire" Lips having warned them that efforts in that direction were useless.

THE LOS ANGELES RECORD, February 1, 1906