• This website is inspired by and dedicated to the firefighters of the Los Angeles County Fire Dept., "Past, Present and In Memoriam"
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This website is provided, and paid for by: Retired Fire Captain, Dewitt Morgan, who served with the Los Angeles County Fire Department from March 1957 to 1992.
This website was inspired by a website developed by: Battalion Chief, James O. Page.
Jim has passed, but he left us with a very strong legacy.

Retired and Active FireFighters of The Los Angeles County Fire Department

From our first days as Los Angeles County Fire Department, recruit firefighters, we knew we were part of a very special organization. The people we worked with were proud to be L.A. County FireFighters, and they expected us to be proud too - and grateful for the opportunity to join the organization. You could hear guys complain about things (after all, it's a fire department). But those same guys often could be heard saying, "This is a great job." Most important, nobody ever seemed to quit unless they were killed, injured or retired. A lot of the guys that did leave the job to try something else, were often reapplying to get back on the job.

After retirement we were at odds end as to how to contact all our retired friends. We did have area breakfasts, mostly in the battalion or division that we worked in. They were held once a month, and if you forgot, you missed out until the next one.

WebSite Membership: There is a members section that will give you the name, e-mail address, and telephone number, of those members who allow their information to be posted, so you can contact old pals. We will also accept, and publish your content that is of interest to most of our members.

Please visit the Memorial page which pays tribute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, that of their life in the line of duty.

LACoFD Retired Firemen's Mail List

Cyberstreams Mail List: CyberStreams Mail List is the first, and the best of our retirees e-mailing lists. CyberStreams requires family-oriented standards of propriety. There is an archive of messages to peruse also. It pretty-much follows the firehouse, Manual of Operations, as we knew it with regards to religious, and political discussions - they're just simply NOT allowed. Swearing, and off color jokes, are not allowed. We have many widows, and most of the retired Chaplains on our list. Many of the Fire Fighters wives read CyberStreams too.

Anything Goes! (...almost)

[SmokeShowing] is a Moderated & Restricted list for Active and Retired firemen (firewomen, too) who work/worked for L.A. County Fire Department. It is a list where the issues may be discussed openly and frankly - with some reasonable standards of propriety being observed.

For the most part, it is an "anything goes" list as long as the posts are signed by their authors. It was started by retired Captain, Steve, "Firebat" Johnson, on December 16, 1998.

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Since the Los Angeles County Fire Department was first formed in 1924, it has been an organization most notable for its people. There has never been a time since 1924 that the department wasn’t growing. That growth was built on the foundation laid by the pioneers.

The following seniority list from 1949, includes the names of men who were employed by the County’s fire districts

The Lakewood Plan, it came along in the early 1950's. Without this plan you would probably not be reading this. Yes, that is really true. In the very early 1950's the incorporated cities in Los Angeles County began to look at the unincorporated area of the county as dollars. That is correct, tax dollars. If they annexed the adjacent county areas into their incorporated city, they would then get the tax dollars. This caused some furious jurisdictional battles, some for, and some against.

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