Thursday Event: DEDICATION OF THE COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT'S P. MICHAEL FREEMAN COMMAND AND CONTROL FACILITY

 

 

 

      

MEDIA ADVISORY

Contact:  Tony Bell, Communications Deputy Office:     (213) 974-5555  Cell: (213) 215-5176 E-mail:     tbell@bos.lacounty.gov

       

           December 14, 2010                                                                                  For Immediate Release

 

DEDICATION OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT’S P. MICHAEL FREEMAN COMMAND AND CONTROL FACILITY

 

WHAT:   Dedication ceremony of the P. Michael Freeman Command and Control Facility. 

 

The former Fire Command and Control Facility will be renamed in honor of retiring Fire Chief P. Michael Freeman, the second-longest serving Fire Chief in the Department’s 87-year history. 

 

Freeman’s visionary leadership initiated several specialized emergency response programs including the Urban Search and Rescue, Swiftwater Rescue and Canine Search Programs; the merger of the County’s Lifeguard and Health Hazardous Materials operations; and the use of expanded air attack for wildland firefighting operations.

 

WHO:          Michael D. Antonovich, Mayor of Los Angeles County (5^th District)

Don Knabe, Los Angeles County Supervisor (4^th District)

Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department

                   

WHEN:        Thursday, December 16, 2010, at 11:00 a.m.

 

WHERE:     Los Angeles County Fire Department,

1320 North Eastern Avenue

                    Los Angeles, CA 90063 (Thomas Guide 595 F-3).

                               

 

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