Signs of pride: The logos of LBFD’s firehouses

Long Beach Fire Department’s 21 firehouses are scattered throughout the city, often tucked into cozy neighborhoods. And, wherever they are, says firefighter-paramedic and department spokesman Brian Fisk, they’re expected to have the nicest lawn on the block. The crews at each station follow the same maintenance regimen each week with a day for lawns and landscaping, days for polishing wood and brass, days for checking the lighting. The crews at each station, too, have an intense pride in their firehouse and the work they do, and that pride is perhaps best typified in the logos they choose to represent them. The chosen logos appear on the various engines, trucks and other apparatus, on the walls of the station, on patches and, perhaps most visibly, on T-shirts worn by crew members. Some are well known, like Zeep the Sheep at Station 2 on Third Street, and the “up all night” Batman on Loma Avenue and Fourth Street in Belmont Heights. Others are less well-known to the city at large. Here are some of the more interesting LBFD […]

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