Los Angeles City Firefighter Needs Assistance

Yesterday, Susan Bankhead shared on her blog, "Susan's Genealogy Blog" about a request from her son Tim, the Los Angeles City firefighter.

Her son wrote:

I am a firefighter in the City of Los Angeles and over the years of our existence a number of great men have lost their lives in the line of duty. We have a hall at our training center that has photos of them all with the exception of just a few. I am wondering how genealogy, record searches, and the internet can help us find a photo of these great men so that we may give them the honor they are due.

Susan would like to know "where you would start and what process you would use to find these fallen fire fighters."

To help out, please head over to "Susan's Genealogy Blog" and leave your advice in a comment.

I would like to point out that the The Los Angeles Times historical archives online at ProQuest contain digitized article images from December 4, 1881 to December 31, 1984. If anyone has access to this collection (I don't), perhaps a search would be in order. They note in the FAQs, however, that "certain photographs and articles" are omitted due to copyright concerns. Hopefully photos of firefighters who died in the line of duty would not be among those.

Thanks for any help (and peace of mind) you can give to these folks.

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Information from "Susan's Genealogy Blog" shared with permission.
Firefighter photo from Microsoft Clip Art, and is not Tim or any of the others mentioned in the article.

Copyright © by Elizabeth O'Neal

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