Stations Plan Open Houses for Fire Service Recognition Day

Local firehouses will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in observation of Fire Service Recognition Day. Visitors are invited to meet firefighters, receive information on fire safety and earthquake preparedness and view fire equipment.

Special activities are planned at two Torrance fire stations. Station 1, at 1701 Crenshaw Blvd., will have displays of the latest hazardous-material equipment and other special fire service programs. Station 2, at 25135 Douglas Way, the location of the airport training tower, will feature live-action displays of firefighters climbing ladders, using the “jaws of life” to cut open cars and operating the aerial ladder truck. The display will take place from 1 to 3 p.m.

The Los Angeles County Fire Museum, at 1320 N. Eastern Ave., Los Angeles, also will participate in Fire Service Day with displays of antique fire apparatus and equipment.

All Los Angeles County firehouses will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. In the South Bay, they are located in Carson, Lawndale, Lomita, Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills and Rolling Hills Estates. For information, call 267-2411.

Torrance firehouses will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 618-2910.

Redondo Beach will open firehouses from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For information, call 318-0663.

El Segundo firehouses will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 322-4311.

Sparky the Fire Dog will greet visitors to the Hawthorne Fire Department, which will hold open house from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tours, light refreshments, coloring books for children and information on earthquake preparedness will be offered. Earthquake kits will be on display, and a paramedic van will be available for viewing. For information, call 970-7968.

Inglewood will hold open house at stations 1, 3 and 4, and at its fire training center, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. For information, call 412-5350.

Gardena and Manhattan Beach fire departments will not hold open houses Saturday, but will do so in the fall during Fire Prevention Week.