Long Beach Firefighters Museum

There is an extensive collection of firefighting tools and equipment and the walls are lined with pictures tools and a 100 year old life net.

Long beach firefighters museum. 90813 hours of operation. If you like museums and enjoy the history of firefighting you won t be disappointed. Long beach firefighter s museum long beach california. We do this by taking apparatus to community events like safety fairs school carnivals fire department static displays and driving in local parades.

Museum is open for tours call for an appointment. In 1980 herb bramley and several other volunteers organized the long beach fireman s historical society all of whom had the common goal to preserve and display the rich history of the long beach fire department. We feel that it is important to get out into the community. T he museum is completely staffed by dedicated volunteers who come from all walks of life.

747 likes 284 were here. On september 24 2002 after 3 decades of tireless work the city of long beach voted unanimously to dedicate the lbfd museum as the herb bramley lbfd museum. California law requires that there must be four firefighters on scene before a unit can deploy personnel into a fire. Wednesdays 7 30 11 45 am the second saturday of the month 10 00 am 3 00 pm phone.

Welcome to the long beach fire department s website. Museum board of directors. There are run log books from over 70 years ago. The collection started with a 1926 ahrens fox pumper a few tools and borrowed space.

The museum is housed in the old long beach fire department station 10 which is a designated historical building. The long beach firefighters are especially concerned about a city proposal to cut staffing onboard firefighting units from four to three since this will cause completely unnecessary life threatening delays. While we were out in the field our crew decided to look into some older technology high tech at the time used by long beach s first responders. The mission of our museum is to collect preserve and display the.

A postcard from the field. The museum has over 14 vehicles on display dating back to 1890 most were in service with the lbfd. Long beach has thoughtfully saved many pieces of fire apparatus over the years and they are now on display at the museum with helmets badges nozzles hose and an amazing amount of other firefighting memorabilia. If a unit arrives with only three firefighters it has to wait for.

Chief robert leslie gave permission to herb bramley in 1980 to use the building known as old station 10 for the restoration of antique fire apparatus and the museum was formed. We have tracked our volunteer hours over the past few years and recently logged over 600 hours for december of 2006. The long beach firefighter s museum nbc news in friday s all new dateline 21st century tracking technology plays a pivotal role in the search for clues.