The FIRE WARDEN
The Los Angeles County Fire Museum’s newsletter is called the Fire Warden. The name reminds us of the history of the Department with every issue. The LACoFD started out with the Forester and Fire Warden in charge with his crew putting out fires in our wildlands. Through the years, the Department became more sophisticated and morphed into the multi-divisional world class Fire Department we know today.
Every issue of the newsletter is written by our team at the Museum, as well as active and retired Firefighters. We print and mail a beautiful glossy print magazine for our members.
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The Fire Warden welcomes and accepts articles from Firefighters everywhere. If you have stories and photos you would like to share, please email them to the Fire Warden using the Contact form on the left below the Current Issue. You will be contacted upon your submission.
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If you have a question on any article in our Fire Wardens, if you have a story to tell, or maybe some photographs to share, please contact us via this contact form. A Fire Warden Team member will be in touch with you shortly. If you wish to submit photographs, you will be provided more information in the reply.
Thank you, The Fire Warden Team.
Fire Warden
PAST ISSUES
Past issues are only available as PDFs
There are a few recent and current print issues that are only available at the Museum
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There are many links and certain information that will not be relevant in the older archive issues
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3) From the President
5) Facilities
6) A Bad Day for Engine 164
12) The Hog Lives On
14) More About Home Gardens
22) Call for Retiree Support
23) 1937 ULH Harley Davidson
26) The Shop – Engine 51
33) The Shop – 1903 American Steam
38) First Station Number One
40) Harley: An Ambulance Cycle?
41) Harley: A Siren?
45) Flak Jackets?
46) Not Only Engines Get Caught
47) Tech & Media
48) Call for Docents
49) War Surplus
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3) From the President
5) Facilities
6) Random Shot
7) The Long Road to Dept. Historian
8) Vernon Goes County
15) LACoFD Inventions
16) Station 17’s Pump House Fire
18) Super Scooper
23) Simple By Design – PBX
26) Pumper J
29) E51
30) 1928 Mack
31) 1925 Stutz
33) Waterous Steamer
36) 1915 Model T
38) 1903 American Steamer
40) Good Old Days – Battalion 6
42) Engine 41’s Dalmatian
45) Chief Bragdon & the Fire Pact
48) Change of Watch
49) Tech & Media
50) Estate Planning
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3) From the President
5) Facilities
6) A Bad Day for Engine 164
12) The Hog Lives On
14) More About Home Gardens
22) Call for Retiree Support
23) 1937 ULH Harley Davidson
26) The Shop – Engine 51
33) The Shop – 1903 American Steam
38) First Station Number One
40) Harley: An Ambulance Cycle?
41) Harley: A Siren?
45) Flak Jackets?
46) Not Only Engines Get Caught
47) Tech & Media
48) Call for Docents
49) War Surplus
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3) From the President
5) Facilities
6) Museum Honors Two Stars: Cinader & Norell
7) Robert A. Cinader
10) EMERGENCY! A visit with “Captain Stanley”
18) Homegardens Station 15
23) Plan an Event at the Mayne
24) Old Engine 15
26) From the Shop
31) Calling All LACoFD Retirees
33) Fireman James Michelli – We Will Never Forget
36) Call for Docents
37) When is the Department’s Birthday
39) “Junkyard” Treasure … wow
40) Transition – Callmen & Paid – 1948
42) Fire Camps
44) Transitions – Merger Master
44) White Motor Company
45) Engine 51 Ladders Are Back
45) Corrections
46) From the Archives: Seagrave Presents the new Quad
52) Tech & Media & Website Update
54) Legacy Donation Information
- New Partner: Powerbuilt
- Random Shot
- Museum Facilities
- Crown Apparatus Number One
- Photo from Universal Studios
- From the Shop
- Completing a Story – Station 42
- Fire Antique Swap Meet
- Call for Docents
- 50 Years EMS Celebration
- Dispatch Frequencies
- Unintended Midnight Visitor
- When Musters Were Us
- Tech & Media: archives and sharing
- A Dedicated Firefighter
- April 1950 Fire Engineering Archive
- Traveling Canteen
- New Museum & Grand Opening Day
- Meet the Board of Directors
- Docent Meeting
- 1951 Factory Photo
- Box Alarm
- EMS 50 Years and 1971 Dodge Mobile Aid Truck
- Squad 51 Plates
- When FS 27 Was New
- Crown F1001
- Haphazard Early Days
- 1929 Getty Oil Fire
- Rose Parade
- Crown Parts for a Friend
- New Photo Identity System
- 1953 International Coast Engine.
- Grand Opening Announcement
- Station History 18’s
- Street Alarms
- LACoFD FSA Program
- Indian Fire Pump
- American La France Engines
- New” Enclosed Crew Cabs
- Photographs and Preservation
- Celebrating Jeff Langley
- Higgins & Langley Memorial Awards.
- The New Museum Building Progress – Our Future
- Random Shot
- Blast From the Past
- From the Shop
- Retired Chief Houts
- A Ghost That Galloped
- Donated Collection – R. Dale Magee
- Sharing our Collection – Fire Engineering Magazine
- Station 42
- Fire Chief Keith E. Klinger’s Retirement Invitation
- Engine 1/3
- Fighting Fire With Fire
- Pumper J Restoration
- Visit by Jorden Pearl, past Museum Director
- Engine 41’s “Dalmation”
- History Maker – Legacy of T. F. Schneider
- Random Shot
- Pumper A Comes Home
- R. Dale Magee
- Bellflower Facility Sprucing
- From the Shop
- Diamond in the Rough
- Volunteer Fire Companies of LA County
- What Was That?
- Museum’s 21st Anniversary
- Celebrating Purchase of Bellflower Building
- Make A Wish – Noah Cohen
- Random Shot
- Museum Experiences
- Cold Case Murder
- Blast From the Past
- Firehouse Dogs – Big Al the Kiddies Pal
- Discovery on Oat Mountain
- History – It’s What We Do
- 1923 Ford Model TT
- Treasures Found at South Gate
V 24 – ISSUES 1- 4 – SUMMER 2014
- Breaking Ground
- E51 Restoration Photos
- Random Shot
- Restoration Report
- New Home vote
- Boot Is Back
- LACoFD Badge History
- James O. Page 1936-2004
- The 51’s
- Celebrating FFS J. Littlefield
- Knott’s Berry Farm’s Waterous Steamer
- Firefighter Stories: Walter Walker
- Pioneers of Paramedicine
- Celebrating Ken Jury – Treasurer for Life
- Random Shot
- Restoration Report
- Squad 51 In Las Vegas
- Firefighter Stories: Bernard Dickey
- Mecum Auctions
- From the Archives
- Historian Dave Boucher honored by LACoFD
- Boot the Firedog
- Restoration Report
- Random Shot
- Squad 51 Responding to EMS
- Lunch in Hollywood
- March 10th, 1933 EARTHQUAKE!
- King Family donates 1922 REO
- Firehouse Terminology #3 – Baby Banger
- Guest Firefighter Stories: Lon Myers
- 1956 CJ5 FIRE JEEP
- EMERGENCY! The Little Show that Just Won’t Die
- Random Shot
- From the Shop
- Guest Firefighter’s Story: Scott Franklin, Old Engine 7
- So Many Engines, So Little Time
- Fire Game Warden Forestry Department Badge
- Firehouse Terminology #2: Bugles
- Kevin Tighe & Randolph Mantooth bestowed as Honorary Fire Chiefs
- 100 Years of Family Service
- Random Shot
- Return of Engine 7
- Firehouse Terminology #1 – Run
- EMERGENCY! Collections Donated
- LACoFM Hosts a Car Show
- Denver Trip
- Make A Wish
- Fred Earl
- LACoFD Firefighters Military History
- May Madness
- US Army Vets Job Fair
- Heroes Night
- Emergency Artifacts
- Disney Animator Ward Kimball
- Restoration Progress Report
- Autographed T shirts
- The Silsby Rides Again
- Ward Kimball and His Fire Engines
- Merry Christmas
- Honor Them Always
- Old Engine 12
- Random Shot
- A Very Special Luncheon
- Engine 51 Restored and Reunited
- From the Shop
- 51 In Quarters
- Event Photographs
- LACoFD History – Men and Their Machines
- 1941 Ford
- Open house photos
- 1903 American Metropolitan Restoration
- Filming of the Pioneers of Paramedicine Documentary
- Pioneers of Paramedicine Event
- Kathy St. Amant joins the Museum Team
- Iconic Paramedic Backboard
- Photos of Big Smiles and Good Times
- Tributes to Captain Ted Hall & Firefighter Specialist Arnie Quinones
- Museum expansion feasibility study
- BBQ for a badly burned boy due to child abuse
- Building fund for investors
- Return of Engine 51 from Yosemite (Ward LaFrance)
- Goodbye honor for Firefighter and Museum pioneer Tom Aplanalp
- Update on the Museum’s ‘Starter Home” which is now “The Shop”
- Highlight review photos
V 15 – ISSUE 3 – Winter 2006-2007
- Remembering the Great Earthquake and Fire 1906-2006
- Announcing the 200th Paramedic Graduation and reunion
- LA County Board hails Museum for the SF event
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2) Mantooth Raises $20K for Museum
3) LACoFD Explorer Banquet
4) Fire Hydrant Pulled from WTC
6) Fan Letters
7) Dear Chief Freeman
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2) Road Trips
3) Selman Chevy Steps Up
4) Saving Engine 69
6) Biography: James O. Page Pt 3
7) New Board of Directors
V 14 – ISSUE 1 & 2 – Summer 2005
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1) Mantooth Promotes Museum
3) Recovering FF Tom Barilla
4) Paramedic History
6) Selman Chevy
8) New Museum Facility
9) Firefighter Museum
10) Biography: James O. Page Pt 2
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1) Goodbye to James O. Page
6) Biography: James O. Page Pt 1
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1) Protectors of Signal Hill
2) Actor Lends Star Power
3) Biography: Chief Richard Houts
6) Flashback: Ronald Regan’s Effect on CA
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1) Squad 51 in the Hall of Flame
2) TV Firefighters by Yokley
3) 59 Years Ago
4) From the Shop
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1) Mantooth Promotes Museum
3) Recovering FF Tom Barilla
4) Paramedic History
6) Selman Chevy
8) New Museum Facility
9) Firefighter Museum
10) Biography: James O. Page Pt 2
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1) Museum Raises Funds for FDNY
2) Parade Rest
2) Q&A Dave Boucher
3) Corn Fields to Fireground
4) Wide Open Spaces
6) Flashback: 1924 Parade of Rest
7) Master Plan
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1) Museum Leaders Share Expertise
2) Museum Sponsors 9/11 Flag Cases
2) Off to Oz
3) Biogtaphy: Larry Hoerner
4) From the Shop
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1) Master Plan
2) Open House Notes
4) From the Shop: ’37 Seagrave
6) Flashback; Station 7
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1) Squad 51 at Petersen Museum
3) Biography: Chief Pilot Rick Cearley
4) From the Shop: ’55 Crown
6) Flashback; Camp 9 Open House
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1) Squad 51 Returns from DC
3) Biography: Roland Percey
4) From the Shop: Amish Wheelwright
6) Wishlist: Harley Davidson