Description: The Long Beach Fire Museum is a working museum that many retires and active Long Beach firefighters are in the process of restoring. Every Wednesday, retired and active Long Beach firefighters volunteer their time to work at the museum and give tours. The hours are quite early but when you have a son who loves fire trucks and all that entails you make it work.
The hours are:
Wednesdays 7:30- 11:45 AM
The second Saturday of the month 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
The tour itself is free but they take donations, this is what helps them be able to restore what they have.
The station and tour was great. They had so much stuff from years and years of service. You could see how the oxygen masks have evolved over the years. There was a wall of Fire helmets from many in service and from different years they were used. Of course there are tons of pictures and stories. There was actually so much stuff I could not even tell you it all. However I can tell you that we had a great tour guide we were the only ones there so we had him all to our self. He answered any questions we had, told us lots of stories and gave tons of explanations of everything. They showed us an old video with fire trucks that they had restored in their museum. They had several old classic fire trucks, a few that they actually still use for parades and stuff.
My son was able to get in one or two of the fire trucks and ring the bell and play like he was a fireman. When we were done there we got to go over to the station that is now functioning and see the modern day turnout gear, fire pole and equipment that they use now day. We were unfortunate in that the fire trucks were all out on calls, but we still got to see the other stuff.
This place was defiantly a hit with our son and allowed us to get an early and inexpensive start to the day.
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