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 Number change: Truck 20 now Truck 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
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


Courtesy:  Dee Trent, son of Fireman Dee David Trent



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

Truck Company No. 20
Circa 1929

"Monday Morning Checks"

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 is 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

FRONT COVER

Call it what you want--an engine man teaching two truckmen how to use a hose line--two truckmen showing an engine man how it's done--but all three agreed on  one thing: it was "heads-down-hot" at the stubborn flammable liquids fire on the night of June 12 at the National Supply Company, 241 West 116th Place.
Photo shows Captain Larry Schneider on the nozzle.


Source: Chuck Madderom Collection

 

1977
 

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