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Engine Co. No. 10 Truck C
Truck Co. No. 3 in service
Truck Co. No. 1 in service
Number change: T1 now Truck 10
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Task Force 10 R.A.10
1900
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1917
1932
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1966
1615 South Hill Street
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1335 South Olive Street
1899  - 1951
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1951 to Present

Engine Company No. 10
Truck Company No. C
South Hill Street near Sixteenth Street
 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

 

Engine Company No. 10
Truck Company No. C

South Hill Street near Sixteenth Street

Circa 1899
 

Date Opened November 34, 1899
Land Cost $1,350.
Building Cost $3,645.


Source: LAFD Illustrated 1900

 

Engine Company No. 10
Truck Company No. C

1900

 


Source: LAFD Illustrated 1900

November 1900
 


Source: Los Angeles Public Library

Circa 1900
 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Howley Collection

Truck Company C

Circa 1900
Captain McDonald standing on left.
#4 from left is Arthur Dominguez
#7 from the left is Steve Querola
 


Truck Company C
1898 Seagrave & Co. City Service Truck
Circa 1900


Source: A/O Paul Gilbrook Collection
Truck Company C
(Company identification letter C changed to number 3 after 1900)
1898 Seagrave & Co. City Service Truck

"L.A. FIESTA PARADE"
1st PRIZE
1905
W.C. Bress on running board, Driver Wm.. Barry

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POLICE
        PICKUPS  

Fun for the Kids

    "We just wanted to see the horses run."
    This is what 12-year-old Eddie Randolph (colored) told Patrolman Leon was the reason that he (Eddie) and Pablo Wetmore, a little Mexican boy, turned in a false alarm of fire from box 24 at the corner of Alpine and Buena Vista streets, and then hurried away toward school, form which place they saw the horses come tearing down the street with the fire engine, sending a cloud of sparks and fire skyward.
    Of course there was a lot of maddened firemen when they arrived on the scene of the supposed conflagration, to discover that it was only a false alarm.  Patrolman Leon was made acquainted with the facts and he stepped over to the Castelar street school, where he soon ferreted out the mischief-makers.
    Sniffing audibly were both of the youthful law-breakers when they were marched up before Judge Chambers.
    "What made you boys turn in that false alarm?" questioned the court, glaring down at the youngsters with his fiercest frown, manufactured epic ally for the occasion.
    "Wa-a-a-a-a-hoo-o-o-o-o!" blubbered the frightened lads.  "We--didn't---know--wha--wha--whaat we wuz doing."
   "Didn't know what you were doing?  Boys as old as you two?  Hump!  That sort of a story didn't go worth a cent. Which one of you was it that turned in the alary?"
     "I--I--borke the glass," confessed Pablo, digging his fingers into his eyes.
    "An'--an'--nen I pulled somethin' down," explained Eddie, "An' nen purty soon we seen the horses a-coming' an' we runned, we did."
    "H-m-m-m!  And now you say you don't know what you were doing?  This looks pretty serious," and his honor looked savagely down upon the youthful offenders as though he would eat them a la ogre style.
    The mother of the Randolph boy accompanied him into court.  It appeared that her offspring had been arrested a year ago for some offense and was rapidly tobogganing downward through his malicious, mischievous pranks.
    "That boy is old enough to know better," exclaimed Judge Chambers.  "He can't make me believe he didn't know what he was doing. I am going to continue this case a week, and I want you to keep that kid out of mischief meantime or he'll suffer the penalty."
    Grimy tears were coursing down the dusky cheeks of the youngsters as they were led away.  The court will meantime investigate the previous records of both lads.

FIREMAN DISMISSED;

    L. L. Amick, driver for hose company No. 10, was tried before the board of fire commissioners today on charges of insubordination. He was found guilty and dismissed.  Amick was formerly a hoseman at $60. a month, but took the civil service examination for driver, and although he admitted to the board that he knew nothing about horses he passed and was promoted.

    After he began driving he discovered that he did not like the work and could not do it satisfactorily.  Captain M. McMahon, who preferred chargers against him, told the commissioners that whenever he criticized Amick's work, the driver retorted that he could get someone else to do it.

The Los Angeles Express, September 14, 1906

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ENGINE DRIVER IS DISMISSED
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Battalion Fire Chief
Prefers Charges of
Intoxication Against Fireman


    Driver  O. J. Lambe of engine company No. 10 was dismissed from the service by the fire commission yesterday on a charge preferred by John G. Todd, battalion chief of district No. 2.  that he was intoxicated Thursday evening.

    Complaint was made to the chief by Captain McMahon of No. 10, who claimed that Lambe reported for duty Thursday evening in an inebriated condition and that when he was notified that he was suspended from duty became boisterous and grappled with the captain, tearing his uniform shirt.

    Lambe has been before the commission on a similar charge once before, but as he has always been a good fireman he was allowed to go with a reprimand.

The Los Angeles Express, March 17, 1906

The Los Angeles Herald, August 18, 1906


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Happy Baker, LAFD Ret.
Engine 10, Truck C
1906


Source: Photo by Turk & Haelsig
Engine Company 10
1908
 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Porter's Collection


Source: Roger Embury Collection
Photo 24

 

These two photos show Engine 10,
an 1899 La France 2nd Size,
Shop Number 12
under going Acceptance Test

Circa 1910
 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Howley Collection

 

Wagon 10
Fire Extinguisher Co.
Combination Hose Wagon w/1-60 SA


 
Circa 1910
 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
 

Circa 1910


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Lawrence & Stella Cason

Bunking Out

1906

Hitching Up For A Run

1910


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Courtesy Happy Baker, LAFD Ret.
 

The Crew

Circa 1910


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
 

The Boys and Their Horses

1911


 

1911

 

 

Source: Fireman Henry F. McCann
Scrap Book Collection
Circa 1914
Source: Fireman Henry F. McCann
Scrap Book Collection
Circa 1914

 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Lawrence & Stella Cason
(Note: Stella Cason's maiden name was Sepulveda and she
may have been related to Joe Sepulveda.)
 

Captain Banning extreme right.
Joe Sepulveda 3rd from the right.

Circa 1920

 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Howley Collection
 

l to r standing
    1. Pete Moreno
    2.  Carroll
    3. 
    4.  Frank Hanscon
    5.  Joe Sepulveda
    6.
    7. 
    8. 

l to r seated
    1.  Owen Dunn
    2.  Captain McDonald
    3.  Arthur Dominguez

 


 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Capt. Orra MacKillip
 

Engine Company 10

Circa 1920


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection

Courtesy Mrs. Lawrence Cason
 

Hose Wagon 10
Driver Joe Sepulveda,  Captain Wm. Banning
Standing L-R;   ?,  P. J. Sullivan,  ?

Circa 1920

 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Orra W. McKillip

 

John Thompson standing 4th from the left.

Circa 1920

  
. . . "Telephone alarm 150 w. 21st Street., run 6 blocks, laid 400' hose, used 60 gals chemicals, worked 43 min.'s".
 

June 19, 1921 was the last horse drawn run for Engine Co. 10.
(-Steamer No. 25 s/n 128 and Wagon No. 39.)

 


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