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The Fire Houses

    1187 East 52nd Street
    Destroyed by 1933 earthquake.
    4925 Compton Avenue (Temporary Qtrs.)
.
    1187 East 52nd Street (new building)
    1192 East 51st   Street

9/01/1907
3/10/1933
1933
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12/15/1941 to 04/2008
04/2008      to  Present


Engine Company No. 21
1187 East 52nd Street
1916 to 1933


Source: Fierman John L. Banks Scrap Book Collection


Engine Company No. 21
1916

Engine Company 21 replaced its horse drawn hose wagon and horse drawn pump with a motorized hose wagon, (shown on the left) and a motorized pumping apparatus (shown in the two photographs below). This combination of two apparatus used by an Engine Company was known as a "Two-Piece Engine Company" and worked together in line laying operations, the Pump spotting to the hydrant and the Wagon laying a supply line from the Pump to the fire.


Source: Fierman John L. Banks Scrap Book Collection



1916
1916
Source: Fierman John L. Banks Scrap Book Collection
   


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
 

Engine Company No. 21
1187 East 52nd Street

Circa 1925


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
 

Engine Company No. 21
1187 East 52nd Street

Circa 1925


Source: Dale Magee Collection

Engine Company No. 21
1187 East 52nd Street

March 1933

Destroyed by the 1933 Long Beach
earthquake.  (Note the cracks)


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