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 Number change: Truck 20 now Truck 66
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 Engine 66 & Truck 66 now Task Force 66
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 Task Force 66  RA66, RA866, Div 2 HQ.

July 1, 1929
1932
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1971
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Present

1715 West Florence Ave.
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1909 West Slauson Blvd.

July 1, 1929 .
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6/18/1989
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Engine Company No. 66
Truck  Company No. 20
1715 West Florence Avenue



Source: LAFD Photo
Engine Company No. 66
Circa 1929
 

LATEST IN FIREMAN'S MANSIONS -- 
One of the city's most striking fire stations, architecturally speaking, is this one at Florence and Western avenue, opened with formal program last Saturday night.  The station will aid materially in combating the fire menace in the southwest part of the city.

 

ILLUSTRATED DAILY NEWS, 
OCTOBER 1, 1929

Construction Completed September 7, 1928
Land Cost $ 4,000.
Building Cost $41,843.
Sq.Ft.  Station 6,127
Poles 4


 

Engine Company No. 66
Circa 1929

Courtesy:
Dee Trent, son of Fireman Dee David Trent

 

Truck Company No. 20
Circa 1929

Courtesy:
Dee Trent, son of Fireman Dee David Trent

 

 



Courtesy: Dee Trent, son of Fireman Dee David Trent

Truck Company No. 20
Circa 1929
"Monday Morning Checks"
"Checking the Specific Gravity of the Batteries"

Every Monday morning the drivers perform a series of apparatus checks.  Here the Autofireman is shown measuring the specific gravity of the battery electrolyte.  Each cell us checked using a hydrometer. 

 

Engine Company No. 66  Truck  Company No. 66
1715 West Florence Avenue



Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Engine Company No. 66

September 11, 1938
"A" Platoon

D. Dubin
T. Zumwalt
D. Trent
Capt. A. Leroux  
G. Ewers
L. Kuester
A. Wright
J. Porter
V. Hawtray
 
 


History of David Dubin


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