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Plan your visit around limited hours: Open Wednesdays 9am-12pm and 2pm, plus the 2nd Saturday of each month. Call ahead to confirm and check the website, as hours are restrictive.
Visitor tip
Volunteer firefighters provide tours on-site—ask them to explain the vintage fire alarm code machine and the historical wooden water pipe, as these are the most interesting artifacts and volunteers bring them to life with context.
Visitor tip
Don't miss the vintage black and white film showing old Long Beach fire trucks in action—it's a unique educational highlight that brings the museum's collection to life.
What visitors say
We absolutely love this museum. There is always someone around that can give you a tour and I, at 60, learned something cool from this visit. Only open Wednesday 9-12 & 2nd Saturday of each month but it's totally worth working around…
We love this place Glen is amazing along with his guys
I don't have a thing for firefighters or firefighting equipment but I have a friend who does, so I end up visiting these kinds of museums across the country whenever we travel together. This museum is probably the second smallest with…
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Did You Know?
- The museum features a vintage black and white film showing historic fire trucks actively patrolling the streets of Long Beach, providing a unique visual record of the city's firefighting history
- The museum operates with extremely limited hours - only Wednesdays 9am-12pm and the 2nd Saturday of each month - and is run entirely by volunteer firefighters
- The museum houses a historic wooden water pipe artifact and an antique decoder machine used by firefighters to decipher emergency call locations from fire box codes
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