Fire Station 15 with a fire engine in front, ca.1890 

Two horse-drawn fire engines from Station 12, Los Angeles, ca.1890 

Los Angels Fire Department's Company 14 horse-drawn fire engine, ca.1910 

Composite photograph labeled "Fire Department -- early days" which shows two portraits and a horse-drawn engine, [s.d.] 

Portrait of fire fighters and their engine posed on and in front of a brick building on the southeast corner of First Street and Main Street, ca.1885 

Fire fighters and steam-powered fire engines in action on Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1914 

Early fire engine pulled by large muscular horses, up a hill on First Street, ca.1900 

Fire station at Spring Street and Ninth Street, Los Angeles, ca.1887 

Portrait of members of the Monrovia fire department standing in front of the local fire engine, 1909 

Fire fighters putting out a fire in a walnut grove, [s.d.] 

Monrovia's first automated fire engine, 1909 

Exterior view of Maryland Hotel in Pasadena after fire, ca. 1915 

Los Angeles Fire Department's float in the Fiesta de Los Angeles parade, ca.1915 

Portrait of Charles E. Miles, Los Angeles's last volunteer fire chief, ca.1870-1879 

Horse-drawn fire wagon speeding down the Fifth Street looking west from Broadway, Los Angeles, ca.1900 

Exterior view of Maryland Hotel in Pasadena after fire, ca. 1915 

Exterior view of Maryland Hotel in Pasadena after fire, ca. 1915 

Exterior view of Maryland Hotel in Pasadena after fire, ca.1915 

Exterior view of Maryland Hotel in Pasadena after fire, ca. 1915 

New street signs for Bronson Avenue and Beverly Boulevard outside a fire station, 1936