-THE COMPANIES-
  Engine Company No. 17


  
  Truck Company No. 18 in service.
  Number change: Truck 18 now Truck 17

  Task Force 17 formed (T17 & E17)

  Engine Company 17 closed.

  ENGINE 17, HQ BATT 7
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1905



04/01/1928
12/07/1932

1971

05/21/2011

Present
-THE FIRE HOUSES-
2100 East Seventh Street
(Bld removed for new bridge)

710 South Sante Fe Avenue




1601 South Santa Fe Avenue
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04/01/1905


09/09/1927




08/05/1980
to

Present

Engine Company 17
Truck Company  18
710 South Santa Fe Avenue
1927 - 1932


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Engine Company 17
2100 East Seventh Street

Circa 1928

Date Opened:
Land Cost:
Building Cost:
Sq.Ft. Floor Area:
Total Area Site:
Poles

September 8, 1927
$ 22,780.
$ 43,995.
  8,390
10,500
2

 

 


Engine Company 17
Truck Company   17
710 South Santa Fe Avenue
1932 - 1980



Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Chas Livingstone

Engine Company 17 Truck Company 17
1933

Company Rooster

Back Row:
Kuyendall, Huffman, Parrish, Capt. Vernand, Capt. Stauch, Elliott, O'Neil, Russel
Front Row:
Clapper, Van Kuren, La Llich, Livingstone


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Chas Livingstone

Engine Company 17 Truck Company 17
1933

Wagon:
Kashire, Capt. Stauch, Pucio, Peters
Engine:
Billingsley, O'Neill, Phillips
Truck:
Harris, Clapper, Elliott, Capt. McCarbery,
Adams, Livingstone

Apparatus:
Wagon-1926 Seagrave, Shop Number 859
Pump- 1923 Seagrave, Shop Number 155
Truck- 1928 Seagrave, Shop Number 875



Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Chas Livingstone

Truck Company 17
1933

Kuyendall, Parrish, Livingstone,
La Llich, Clapper, Capt. Vernand

Apparatus:
1928 Seagrave City Service Truck
Shop Number 875



Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Neil Miscake


Circa 1933
Engine Company 17
"On The Scene"


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Captain Bob Foster Collection

Engine Company 17
Truck Company 17

"A" Platoon
July 2, 1939


Engine Co. 17
C. Reisinger
Capt. C. R. Johnson
A. Dawson
J. C. Early
G. Stone
C. Campbell

Truck Co. 17
F. West
A. Clapper
Capt. R. Feather
R. Hartshorne


Source: LAFIRE

Engine Company 17
Truck Company 17

"A" Platoon
July 2

Captain C. R. Johnson
C. Reisinger
A. Dawson
J. C. Early
G. Stone

C. Campbell
F. West
A. Clapper
R. Hartshorne
Captain R. Feather



Source: Captain Duane Warth Collection

ENGINE COMPANY No. 17
September 15, 1951

Stinson
Sullivan
Captain Janathan
Bledsoe
Bill Bennett
Waldron(?)

Circa 1950


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Captain Bob Foster Collection

The Old and The New
January 1956
The 1945 Pirsch 85' Aerial Ladder Truck,
Shop Number 909 was replaced by
the 1955 Seagrave 85' Aerial Ladder Truck
shown in the photo on the bottom.

Capt. Van Valkenburg
Auto Fireman H. Greenwood
Fireman R. N. Foster
Fireman H. Pickeral
Fireman J. Hudson
Fireman J. V. Patten


Engine 17's Golden Anniversary Party
The Fireman's Grapevine, May 1955


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Captain Bob Foster Collection


T R U C K  C O M P A N Y  N O. 17
1955
Seagrave 85' Aerial Ladder Truck
Shop Number 756

Truck Company 17 was assigned a 1955 Seagrave Aerial Ladder Truck. Powered by a Seagrave V-12 gasoline engine the Truck came with a standard compliment of ladders that include an 85-foot 2-section metal aerial ladder, 1 - 50-foot Bangor ladder, 3 - 35' extension ladders, 2 - 24',
2 - 20' and 1 - 16' straight ladders, 2 - 14' Baby Bangor extension ladders and a 16' and a 20' roof ladder.


E N G I N E  C O M P A N Y  N O. 17
1955
1938 American La-France Duplex Pump 1938 American La-France Manifold Wagon
(2) 1250 GPM Pumps Shop Number 1079

Engine Company 17 was one of four LAFD Manifold Companies, the others being Engines 3, 9 and 27's in Hollywood. A Manifold Company was a 2- piece company (a company that utilizes two apparatus) that operated with a Manifold Wagon and a Duplex Pump. The Manifold Wagon carried 3 ½" hose in a rear compartment and two 2 ½" hose lines with nozzles attached in transverse beds. The Duplex Pump did not carry hose but had two 1500 GPM 2-stage centrifugal pumps each powered by a V12 engine, one in the front and the other in the rear. The pumps could operate singly, in parallel, or series with common suctions and discharge manifolds. They had a total pumping capacity of 3000 GPM.

Manifold Companies, unique to the LAFD, were the creation of Chief Ralph Scott who foresaw traffic congestion in the downtown areas a major hinder to fire protection. Chief Scott believed one hard-hitting Engine Company could prevent a fire from growing into greater alarm proportions and raging out of control while additional companies were locked in traffic gridlock. Manifold Companies operated with a 10 man crew and, if augmented with additional manpower, could put sixteen 2 ½" hose lines and a large fireboat type wagon battery into operation. Manifold Companies remained in service until 1964.

The Fenton Fire
June 17, 1958


Auto Fireman Larry Schneider

Auto Fireman Schneider was assigned to Engine Company 17 and drove this 1938 Manifold Wagon, Shop Number 1087. Auto Firemen drove all apparatus not equipped with a fire pump. Here he is shown operating the Wagon Battery of his Manifold Wagon at the Fenton Fire, June 17, 1958. In the years before Ladder Pipes, Wagon Batteries were the primary Heavy Stream Appliance on the LAFD. Note the uniform soft cap. All drivers wore their uniform soft caps in lieu of fire helmets.


(Left to right): Emil Jonathan, Bob Rubio, Charlie Sumner, Bob Stinson, Woodrow Kastner, Deforrest Webber, Craig Drummond, Curt Cundy, Forest Shrode, Wally Dugan, Dick Acton, Frank Desparte, Bob Patterson.

Members on leave: Harry Morck, Richard Dickens, Al Loewe, Russ Evans, Larry Schneider


"I THINK THIS DAMNED HORSEPLAY IS BEGINNING TO GET A LITTLE OUT OF HAND!"


Source: Captain Robert N. Foster Collection

Truck and Engine Company 17
February 1965

Captain Robert N. Foster Collection.


Task Force 17 and Rescue 17
Circa 1975


Source: Chuck Madderom Collection

1977


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