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Engine Company No. 14


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  Chemical Engine Company 2
  Engine Company 14 in service. 

  Heavy Utility 14  
  Salvage Company 14 in service.

  Salvage 14 disbanded to form Squad 22.
  Heavy Utility 14 disbanded to form HU 3.

  
Truck Company 14 in service. (x Truck Co.30)
  Task Force 14 (Truck 14 & Engine 14)

  Light Force 14 (T14 & E214) closed.

  ENGINE COMPANY 14, RA 14, RA 814

1900
10/01/1902

1948
06/14/1949

03/1950
1960

1971
1971

07/03/2011

Present

3401 S. Central Avenue





3401 S. Central Avenue
  (new building same location)

1900





03/09/1950

to

Present


Chemical Engine Company No. 2
3401 South Central Avenue
1900 to 1902

Source: LAFD Illustrated 1900

Chemical Engine Company No. 2
3401 South Central Avenue
Corner Central Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street
1900

Date Opened: Chemical Co.   2
                          Engine    Co. 14

1900
October 1, 1902
Cost of Land $   500.
Cost of Building $5,515.
Telephone number
M-3914




Engine Company No. 14
3401 South Central Avenue
1902 to 1919



Source: Captain Duane Warth Collection
 


Source: Turk & Haelsig Photo
1908
 


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Marge Dion, Daughter of Pinky Morse

 

Bee Culture Deemed Unsuited to Firemen
By DeVere Arnold


DESPITE WARNING CRY OF GUARD MOTORMAN CUTS LINE OF FIRE HOSE

The Los Angeles Herald, January 8, 1906

DIES FOR HIS OWNER
Dog Rouses Family Asleep in Burning House Only to Perish in Flames

The Los Angeles Evening News, March 31, 1906

CAR WITHOUT WARNING SMASHES FIRE WAGON
The Los Angeles Examiner, June 29,1906


FIREMAN ROSENHEIM TO GO ON THE CARPET
The Los Angeles Express, August 24, 1906


THE HUT
The Grapevine, December, 2000


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Marge Dion, Daughter of Pinky Morse
 

Bunking Out
Circa 1915


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
 

Hitching Up
Circa 1915


 

Engine 14
Running past the Engine House
Circa 1910

USC Digital Library Collection

Part Of: California Historical Society Collection,
1860-1960
[project] USC


Source: LAFD Photo Album Collection
Courtesy Mrs. Bert Blake & Son

Wagon 14
1911

 

 

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

 

 


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