Douglas Aircraft Fire Department

== About ==
The Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant was an aircraft manufacturing facility located on a 200-acre site on the northwest corner of Daugherty Field/Long Beach Airport in the City of Long Beach, Los Angeles County, Southern California. Originally opened in 1941, it consisted of an 11-building facility encompassing approximately 1.42 million square feet of windowless covered work space for the wartime production of military aircraft, from bombers to cargo planes. Additional space for production, administration, engineering and product development was added in later years. This was situated off Lakewood Boulevard on the south side of the airport, and at the southwest corner of Lakewood Boulevard and Carson Street, in addition to an office facility built directly across the street.
===Mutual Aid===
The Douglas, and later McDonnell Douglas, Aircraft Fire Department at the Long Beach Plant had a mutual aid agreement with the Long Beach Fire Department. 
==Department Profile==
Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF), structural firefighting, emergency medical services, technical rescue, fire prevention and inspection for the Douglas Long Beach Plant facility was provided by the Douglas Aircraft Fire Department, originally formed in 1941, and and, when dissolved, consisted of 22 career industrial firefighters. Following the merge with Boeing in 1997, fire protection for the plant was taken over by the Boeing Long Beach Fire Department.
==History==
The Douglas Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor originally based in Southern California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. and had facilities at Santa Monica, El Segundo, Long Beach, and Torrance, California, Tulsa and Midwest City, Oklahoma, and Chicago, Illinois. In 1967, Douglas merged with McDonnell Aircraft to form McDonnell Douglas. The merged company was headquarter based at McDonnell's facility in St. Louis, Missouri, with the Douglas Aircraft Company continuing on as a wholly owned subsidiary of McDonnell Douglas. In 1997, McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing with the latter merging Douglas Aircraft into the Long Beach Division of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, thereby retiring the Douglas Aircraft name after 76 years. The last Long Beach-built commercial aircraft, the Boeing 717 (third generation version of the Douglas DC-9), ceased production in May 2006. By 2011, the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III was the last aircraft being assembled at the Long Beach facility; the final C-17 was assembled in late 2015. The Douglas' former logo is preserved on the facility though no longer used by Boeing. 
===Fire Stations===
Station	Address 	In Service	Notes
1 	3855 Lakewood Boulevard Building 6 	 	Closed
2 	3855 Lakewood Boulevard Building 44	 	Closed and demolished
3 	3855 Lakewood Boulevard Building 81	 	Closed and demolished
==Apparatus==
:1992 GMC/ Fire-Bann ARFF (300/180/20F/500 lbs. PK) (Ex-Crash 2)
:1990 GMC / Indiana Fire Apparatus (250/250/20F) (Ex-Engine 3)
:1989 GMC / Indiana Fire Apparatus (250/250/20F) (Ex-Engine 8)
:1988 GMC / Indiana Fire Apparatus (250/250/20F) (Ex-Engine 1)
:1988 Chevrolet van (Ex-Rescue 1)
:1987 Ford Econoline (Ex-Rescue 2)
:1986 GMC / Indiana Fire Apparatus (250/250/20F) (Ex-Reserve Engine)
:1986 GMC / Indiana Fire Apparatus (250/250/20F) (Ex-Engine 4)
:1982 Ford (500 lbs. Halotron/500 lbs. PK/52' Calavar aerial work platform) (Ex-Squad 18)
: 1959 Willys Jeep CJ5 / Crown mini-pumper (150/?) (SN#F1147)
: 1957 Willys Jeep CJ5 4x4 / Crown mini-pumper (150/?) (SN#F1083)
:1957 Willys Jeep CJ5 / Crown mini-pumper (150/?) (SN#F1084)
:1955 FWD 6x6 / Yankee ARFF (750/1500/220LW) (Ex-Crash 1) 
Category:Defunct Industrial Fire Departments (California)
Category:Former operators of Crown apparatus
Category:Former operators of Fire-Bann apparatus
Category:Former operators of Indiana apparatus
Category:Former operators of Yankee apparatus