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On October 27th,
1993, a brush fire that started above Kinneloa Mesa in Pasadena
and L.A. County, began to burn toward Sierra Madre. The fire
burned into town behind the Retreat House and the Department
was ready. The Retreat House was saved by 100 fire personnel
working under Operations, Arcadia Battalion Chief and former
Department member, Rich Brown. Cheif Tracy was Incident Commander,
Tony Lerner was Plans Chief and Bob Spears and Roger Lowe
were Division Chiefs.
The closest call on the first day was when Captain Mike Delgatto
had to make a stand behind the parking lot overlooking Bailey
Canyon. The big oak trees were in the fire's path, but Mike
and his crew; Eric Peterson, Pat Ferguson and Rich Synder,
made a stand and turned the fire north. This was the beginning
of the plan to move the fire to the Northeast and have it
avoid the town.
The plan worked, not a single home was lost.
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On December 6,
1989 at 11:35 a.m., a fire raced through the attic of a row
of stores in Sierra Madre's downtown business district. First-in
engine companies found stores fully involved with flames coming
out of the front and back of two stores. A second alarm was
called and companies from Arcadia, Monrovia and El Monte responded.
Because of the age of some of the buildings (circa 1910) and
because of the construction, it took a third alarm and over
two hours to extinguish the blaze. Six businesses were badly
damaged. 38 members of the Department and a total of 91 firefighters
worked on this fire, including 10 engines, 3 trucks, 3 rescues,
a salvage and a mobile air compressor.
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The Department
enters the Sierra Madre Pioneer Days Parade in 1947. Left
to right: Bill Estes, Ray Penn, Charlie Brown (driving car)
and Bobby Clark.
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On November
11, 1994, the Department responded to a mutual aid call in
Arcadia. On arrival the engine company found a house that
was burning from the basement to the attic. Sierra Madre was
assigned to vent the roof. Seen here are Rich Snyder, Eric
Peterson and Chuck Moore.
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