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Long Beach Fire Department
Glen Goodrich
出版Arcadia Publishing, 2005
主題History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
ISBN07385300189780738530017
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RJqTppRyVbUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Long Beach Fire Department's adaptability has been tested by a wide variety of disasters that have marked it as a unique firefighting force on the West Coast. Thousands of residents and others have owed their very lives to the
department since its 1897 formation. The LBFD moved into action during the devastating 1933 Long Beach earthquake, in which its own Fire House No. 1 was reduced to rubble. Its
firefighters have quelled oilfield blazes through the 20th century, and its fireboats have poured water onto flames engulfing the docks and warehouses of the bustling port. Other duties have included such side excursions as working
standby during Howard Hughes's 1947 flight of the Spruce Goose and taking care of Sam the cat, a Station 6 mainstay who slid down the fire pole to the delight of television audiences.