The above Dash Plaque from this year's Spring Pump-In is still available and may be purchased at upcoming club meetings. See photos from the 2008 Pump-In below.
ANTIQUE FIRE APPARATUS CONVENTION
to be HOSTED BY CFE
in Pomona, CA - February 25-28, 2009
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Historic Fire Service Videos Online Feature Classic LAFD Apparatus from the 1920s - 1950s
www.archive.org has a wealth of vintage fire service films, many from LAFD and FDNY. Check them out for a real "blast from the past" (most are 15-30 min long):
"Your Fire Department" (1949) is broken into part 1 and part 2 and is a "detailed treatment of the Los Angeles Fire Department, its equipment, personnel and activities." There are cool shots of working LAFD rigs of the era, including a 1937 ALF duplex pumper, 1938 Seagrave manifold/battery wagon, Fireboat 2 (still painted in WWII gray colors) and the 1938 ALF water tower.
"Company Response" is an 1949 LAFD training film for company captains and features a Kenworth pumper in the opening shot. The station house has a 1949 Seagrave triple (as the Wagon), a late 1920s Seagrave Pump, and a 1937 American La France tillered City Service Truck. We also see some more 1939 Seagrave pumpers, a 1937 ALF sedan cab triple, a 1920s Seagrave tillered ladder with a wooden aerial, a Mack Wagon and Pump, the 1948 Kenworth Heavy Utility, the 1938 ALF water tower, and an L.A. Railway (Yellow Cars) Emergency Response truck.
The 1939 film "More Dangerous Than Dynamite" warns housewives about the effects of cleaning clothes with gasoline! At about 18 minutes into the film (towards the end) there is an LAFD task force with a 1937 American La France triple combination sedan-cab (running as the Wagon), 1926 Seagrave (running as the Pump) and a 1923 Seagrave tillered ladder truck. The Receiving Hospital ambulance shown is a Auburn built by CROWN COACH!
There are several Seagrave, Macks, and early Crowns, as well as an LAFD Cadillac ambulance in "Our Obligation" made in 1960. "An amazing work of melodrama for PTAs and school boards, the film tells the story of a school fire, the panic that developed and the loss of life that occurred." The 1951 film "Fire! Patty Learns What to Do," is set around the area of the Chatsworth fire of 1947 in the San Fernando Valley, at a time when many parts of the Valley were still farming communities. The film takes the point of view of a child whose family farm is threatened by the fire.
In "Patty Learns to Stop, Look and Listen," the same girl carelessly runs onto a crowded highway and is hit by a car. The details of her treatment and recovery are shown.
2009 CONVENTION PLANNING MEETING - MAY 17 
