Phone Ring Tones - Trains Magazine

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Not always, but that is the way to the state highway...

And why did they always back into the station? It had bay doors on the back as well.

Can't help you there - but I will answer the question with another question, the answer of which may help.

Why did Roy Desoto always drive?

It had nothing to do with seniority or any unmentioned qualification.

It was solely because on the day(s) they were shooting the "stock shots," he drove.  Thus, for most of the rest of the series, Johnny Gage (named after series advisor Jim Page, a legend in EMS) always rode shotgun.

It could be because while there was access at the rear of the station, there really wasn't room to turn an engine around.  Now there's an aerial there, and that definitely wouldn't make the turn.  Odds are that backing into the station, even for just the squad, was the stock shot of "returning to the station."

The station (LACoFD Station 127, re-lettered for the show - look carefully at the front of the station on the show - you can see that the lettering has been altered) is at N 33.82434 W 118.23838 on your favorite map program.

The station is dedicated to Robert Cinader, producer of "Emergency."

Today's LACoFD Station 51 is on the lot of Universal Studios.  Both the squad and the Ward LaFrance Ambassador pumper have been preserved.

I had the pleasure of hearing Randolph Mantooth speak a few years ago.  He also autographed my model of Squad 51.