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This event is a blast. If you’re in L.A., come down for some incredible food and other great stuff.

wodff:

At the station, firefighters take turns cooking for each other. If they do a bad job, they never live it down. Because of that, all firefighters are awesome cooks. This Thursday, you can experience their cooking at the largest firefighter appreciation event in the nation, Hope for Firefighters in downtown Los Angeles.

Aside from absolutely stellar food, there’s also:

• Live music
• Muster games in which teams compete in firefighter-style drills
• Contests & raffles
• Wilshire the Fire Dog
• The cast of Leave It To Beaver
• And a ton of firefighters

Proceeds benefit the Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firemen’s Fund. Don’t miss this opportunity to have a great time for a great cause. Bring a friend or your whole office.

firemensgrapevine:

Gasoline Tanker Fire
Ventura Freeway

The collision of a sedan and gasoline tanker led to a spectacular blaze on the Ventura Freeway near Glendale late in the evening on April 7, 2012, bringing the response of more than 150 firefighters from the LAFD as well as automatic aid from the Burbank, Glendale and Bob Hope Airport Fire Departments.

Firefighters arrived to find a semi-truck tanker with a twin tank trailer, carrying a capacity load of 9,000 gallons of gasoline, fully enveloped in fire. Despite the inferno and a long trail of flames, both drivers were able to flee their vehicles without injury.
Firefighters labored for 70 minutes to fully extinguish the flames and dike the flow of as much as 3,000 gallons of unburned gasoline, to prevent it from igniting or entering storm drains.

Photos by Mike Meadows, EPN and Rick McClure, EPN

Awesome photoset and post about the recent Hollywood arson fires from the Tumblr of our monthly magazine, Firemen’s Grapevine.

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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