-THE COMPANIES-
  Engine Co. 66 in service
  Truck    Co. 20 in service

  Number change: Truck 20 now Truck 66

  Task Force 66 formed (T66 & E66)

  TASK FORCE 66, RA 66, RA 866
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09/08/1929
1930

12/07/1932

1971

06/18/1989
to Present
-THE FIRE HOUSES-
1715 W. Florence Ave.






1909 W. Slauson Blvd.
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09/08/1929






06/18/1989
to Present
Engine Company No. 66
Truck Company No. 20
1715 West Florence Avenue
1929 to 1932

Source: LAFD Photo

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

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

Courtesy: Dee Trent, son of Fireman Dee David Trent

Engine Company No. 66
Circa 1929

Construction Completed
Land Cost:
Building Cost:
Sq.Ft. - Station
Poles

September 7, 1928
$ 4,000.
$41,843.
6,127
4

(Engineer Dee Trent pictured seated in
the driver's seat of engine on the right.)

 

Courtesy: Dee Trent, son of Fireman Dee David Trent

Truck Company No. 20
Circa 1929

(The driver is Autofireman Chamness.)

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. 20
1715 West Florence Avenue
1933 to 1989


Source: Steve Clapper, Grandson of Auto Fireman Carl E. Clapper

Engine Company No. 66
Truck Company No. 66
1938

Bill Cogar
"Red" Moore
Roy Singer
Dave Parrott
Walt Lister
Lawrence Powers
Chief McLaren
Clarence Vernand
Ches Clark
Harry Reeder
Malera Jacobs
Carl E. Clapper
Milo Hawkins
          ?

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



Source: Steve Clapper, Grandson of Auto Fireman Carl E. Clapper

Rescue Company No. 66
1938

Source: Steve Clapper, Grandson of Auto Fireman Carl E. Clapper

Engine Company No. 66
Truck Company No. 66
1945

                "A" Platoon

R.A. Williams
Capt. R.J. Feather, E66-A
Lowe, E66-A
Edward S. Taylor, E66-A
Frank E. Muller, E66-A
Raymond E. Hebert, E66-A

James M. Hammack, T66-A
Carl E. Clapper, Rescue & T66-A
James Sherwood, T66-A
Jack Cappetts
Henry Young
Capt. Ralph M. Stone, T66-A
                   ?


FIRE ENGINEERING
May, 1961

Los Angeles fire fighters leap for
their lives as walls of burning two
-story house collapse on March 2.

                        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 Truck Captain Larry Schneider on the nozzle.

Source: Chuck Madderom Collection

1977

-Source: David Blaire Collection

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