Engine Company No. 21

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 . 12/15/1941 to 04/2008 04/2008 to Present

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)