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Towel Day Is Almost Here
You need a towel.
According to Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, a towel is “about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.” You can:
- Wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta
- Lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours
- Sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon
- Use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth
- Wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat
- Wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you)
- Wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal
- Dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough
Good thing we have you covered. Donate $100 online to the Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firemen’s Fund and we’ll send you a commemorative LAFD beach towel. Your donation will go to help injured firefighters and their families.
And to celebrate Douglas Adams’ life, you can use your LAFD towel on Towel Day, May 25.
Help A Hero, Then Catch Some Rays
Like taking a dip on a hot day? You’ll need to towel off when you’re done. And if you contribute $100 or more during our May Online Donation Drive, we’ll send you a commemorative LAFD beach towel to help you do just that.
All money raised goes to the Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firemen’s Fund, which provides assistance to injured firefighters and their families.
Donate now. And spread the word. Thanks.
Saturday May 12, 2012. Visited the local fire station and museum in Hollywood for their pancake breakfast party. Had so much fun! The bottom photo is after a Jaws of Life demo.
Hey, folks. This is our charity. Read how you can score an LAFD beach towel and help a firefighter at the same time. And please reblog, tweet and share this. Thanks.
Summer is almost here. Don’t get caught at the beach or the pool without a towel. Need one? We’ve got you covered.
Donate $100 or more online during the month of May and we’ll send you a commemorative LAFD beach towel. (Just enter the address where you want the towel shipped and the word TOWEL in the tribute field on the form.)
Your generous donation will help injured firefighters and their families put food on the table, pay bills, cover health care costs and much more.
Prepare for summer. Donate online today, spread the word. And thanks for being a hero to a hero.
LAFD Fire Engine, 1929.
LAFD Air Ops #4 coming in.
Do you know Wilshire the Fire Dog? He was adopted by LAFD Fire Station 29 and has since gone on to super-stardom. He’s been on shows like The Dog Whisperer and Are Your Smarter Than A 5th Grader? and in films like Quarantine. He’s always eager to show support at all of the awesome LAFD events throughout the year and teach kids about fire safety.
Hiker & Dog Rescued
Lakeview TerraceOn December 29, 2011, seven fire companies, three helicopters, two rescue ambulances and two USAR teams responded to a hiker incident at 12001 Van Nuys Blvd. in Lakeview Terrace.
First arriving companies observed a male and a German Shepherd dog clinging onto the side of a steep cliff approximately 150’ above the ground. Due to the terrain, a hoist operation by helicopter was not a desirable option. USAR team members using a high angle rescue went over the side and stabilized the male victim and the dog. Both were extracted from the mountainside and no injuries were reported.
Photos by Mike Meadows, EPN & Rick McClure, Captain, OCD-C & Doc DeMulle’, The Foothills Paper
Awesome photoset and post about the recent Hollywood arson fires from the Tumblr of our monthly magazine, Firemen’s Grapevine.
Hollywood Arson Fires
In five days around the New Year, more than 50 fires were set, mostly in the Hollywood area, but also on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley.
At 12:23 AM, on the morning of Friday, December 30th, a series of incendiary fires began in Hollywood. By daybreak, a total of 12 fires had been confirmed in the Hollywood area, and four fires in the city of West Hollywood. These 16 intentionally set fires were located in carports under apartment buildings.
A Joint Task Force was formed between the LAFD, LAPD, LACoFD, Sheriff’s and the ATF to investigate these fires and to apprehend the suspect or suspects responsible for these heinous acts.
On New Year’s morning there were five more incidents related to this series of fires. One incident involved a vehicle fire in a carport that extended into the structure. Another fire was confined to the vehicle and was controlled prior to extending into the structure. The three additional incidents were reported as “Fire Outs.”
LA County Fire also reported two incidents in the city of West Hollywood. One of the two incidents involved several vehicles in a carport.
At 3 a.m. on January 3, 2012, a reserve sheriff’s deputy spotted a minivan in West Hollywood and pulled it over near the Sunset Strip. The driver appeared to match the identity of the number one suspect and inside his minivan, officials found fire starter sticks, police said. He was taken into custody, and the outbreak of fires came to a sudden halt.
Photos by Juan Guerra, EPN and Mike Meadows, EPN
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