{"id":15972,"date":"2014-04-06T03:18:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T10:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15972"},"modified":"2014-04-06T03:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T10:20:44","slug":"county-of-la-fire-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/county-of-la-fire-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"County of LA Fire Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bellflr.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos: Museum volunteer\u00a0Asher Luna (left) and \u00a0Fire Captain Paul Schneider (right)<\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Bellflower, CA &#8212; Many lives have undoubtedly been saved because of the 1970s hit NBC TV series, &#8220;Emergency,&#8221; which helped pioneer the concept of paramedics. For 7 seasons, the show was based on the exploits of two fictitious Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics. Paul Schneider, a Fire Captain and President of the County of Los Angeles Fire Museum in Bellflower, said his department served as technical advisers for the popular show. Their experiences dealing with emergencies were the inspiration for many of the scenes shot on film.\u00a0Tourists from around the globe continue to be inspired by a 40-year-old production, seeking out LA County Fire Museum&#8217;s 1972 Dodge D300 and Engine 51 used in filming. The museum is hosting a special Open House and Swap Meet May 3, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/bellflower-la-fire-museum.html\">\u00a0Read more<\/a>&#8230;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/emer.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo of the actors from &#8220;Emergency&#8221; and other memorabilia are on display at the fire museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: Museum volunteer\u00a0Asher Luna (left) and \u00a0Fire Captain Paul Schneider (right) By C. MacDonald Bellflower, CA &#8212; Many lives have undoubtedly been saved because of the 1970s hit NBC TV series, &#8220;Emergency,&#8221; which helped pioneer the concept of paramedics. For 7 seasons, the show was based on the exploits of two fictitious Los Angeles County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}