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Engine Company No. 17

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  Engine Co. 17
  Truck Co. 18 in service
  Name change: Truck 18 now Truck 17
  T17 & E17 now Task Force 17
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  TF 17, EMS 5, HMDU, BATT 1 HQ

1905
4/1/1928
1932
1971
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Present

 2100 East  Seventh Street
  (Removed for new bridge)
710 South Santa Fe Avenue
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1601 South Santa Fe Avenue

4/1/1905 - 1927
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 9/9/1927
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8/5/ 1980 to Present

Engine Company. No.  17
 2100 East Seventh Street

 Source: LAFD ANNUAL REPORT NUMBER 19
1904

Opened April 1, 1905
Land Cost $ 1,150.
Building Cost $ 8,237.


Engine Company No.  17
 2100 East Seventh Street
Circa 1910

Left to Right--Driver C.F. Schiefer,  Captain  J. G. Johnson,  Lt. A. E. Church,  L. Loebel,  F. Brush,
George E. Lewis,  Wm. Nickerl,  H. Woodhouse,  J. Sills,  Driver W. H. Augustine,  Spike Hennessey,  Engineer C.R. Campbell


Engine Co. No.  17
 2100 East Seventh Street
Circa 1906

Left to Right--
Geo Urick, Owen Lamb, Tom A. Stembridge,
Captain Balzer, Lieutenant Jom Todd and Tom Carmichael


Source: Rodger Embury Collection
Photo 17

Circa 1906

Engine 17
1904 Nott 2nd Size 700 GPM Steamer, 
Shop Number 18      Serial Number 575
Placed in service 1906.



Source: Turk & Haelsig Photo

1908

Source: LAFD Photo Album

Engine Company 17
1906

l to r - standing;  Hill, S. Dodd, Hendricks, Lee Andrews,  ?
l to r - seated;   ? , T. Carmicheal, Captain Charley Balzer,  ?

 

FIREMEN'S DOG MASCOT
MEETS END "ON DUTY"
The Tribune
November 25, 1911

Engine 17's Golden Anniversary Party
THE FIREMAN'S GRAPEVINE, MAY 1955
By Captain Robert Foster, Truck 17 B


Source: LAFD Photo Album
Engineer Hendricks Collection
Engine Company 17 on a Run
Circa 1915

Durston Photo
 17 LOS ANGELES
GALLANT CREW OF 1915
APR 10th '


Durston Photo
' NIGHT OF APR 10  1915 
No.17 CALLED OUT '
Hooking Up to the Wagon
Left to Right:  H. Woodhouse,  Engineer C.R. Campbell,
Captain  J.G. Johnson,  C.R. Hart,  J.W. Ewing (on left horse)
unidentified,  Driver C.F. Schiefer,  G.E. Lewis
unidentified,  C.S. Nottagr (on right horse)


Durston Photo		 ' IN LOS ANGELES WHEN THE HORSE
WAS KING  APR 10 - 1915 '


Source: LAFD Photo Album
Circa 1915


Source: LAFD Photo Album
Circa 1915


Source: Fred Allen Collection
Courtesy: Captain Duane Warth, LAFD Retired

"Working a 2 1/2"
Flory Hay Fire on East 7th Street
Circa 1910

Source: Fireman Henry F. McCann
Scrap Book Collection


Circa 1914

Source: Fireman Henry F. McCann
Scrap Book Collection


Circa 1914




Source: LAFD Post Card Collection

Ladder Drill

Circa 1910

Source: LAFD Photo Album

Hose Wagon 17

Circa 1915

Left to Right
Carpenter, Johnson, Tillitson, Campbell,
Schiefer and McGin

Seagrave Combination Hose Wagon
Shop Number #105
1000' -2 1/2"hose, 200' Chemical Hose,
30' Extension Ladder
Source: LAFD Photo Album


 Circa 1915



Source: LAFD Photo Album
Circa 1920

 . . . "Box 628    Hauser Packing, Smoke scare".

June 3, 1921 was the last horse drawn 
run for Engine Company No. 17.
( --Steamer No. 21 s/n 3091 and Wagon No. 43.)


Source: The Fireman's Grapevine
May 2009

In June of 1921 this 1921 Seagrave 260CH Combination Chemical & Hose Wagon, Shop Number 124 and
the 1921 106PE Straight Pumb, Ship Number 11 behind it replaced the horse drawn hose wagon and steamer.

 

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