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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.
If awesome firefighter food, live music and firefighter-style Muster Game competitions weren’t enough to get you to come down to the Hope for Firefighters event June 7, 2012, then how about the Beav?
Jerry Mathers of Leave It To Beaver fame will be at Hope along with his costars Tony Dow, Ken Osmond and Frank Bank. Come meet these television legends during the event, which fills Hope St. in downtown L.A., and help raise money for the Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firemen’s Fund.
Meet the Beav! And enjoy food so good, you’ll say, “Gee, Wally, that’s swell.”
Sikorsky Firehawk responding to the ‘09 “Station Fire” | Matt W.
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.
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
Our post about The Sandlot slugger and current LAFD firefighter Mike Vitar generated a lot of interest. So, here’s another LAFD member you might recognize — Jamie Walters.
The former star of Beverly Hills 90210 and The Heights had a hit with his song “How Do You Talk To An Angel.” These days, he’s an LAFD paramedic.
Fight the dragon.
Great shot of LAFD in action.
UPDATE: This image comes from a Yahoo! News piece about the recent L.A. arson attacks.
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