About[]
Hollywood Burbank Airport is a public airport located three miles northwest of downtown Burbank, in Los Angeles County, California. The airport serves the cities of Burbank, Hollywood (LA City) and the northern Greater Los Angeles area, which include the cities of Glendale and Pasadena, as well as the San Fernando Valley. The airport is owned by the Burbank–Glendale–Pasadena Airport Authority and controlled by the governments of those cities. The Airport Authority contracts with TBI Airport Management, Inc., to operate the airport, which has its own police and fire departments, the Hollywood Burbank Airport Police Department and the Hollywood Burbank Airport Fire Department.
Mutual Aid[]
The Hollywood Burbank Airport Fire Department has mutual aid agreements with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the Los Angeles Fire Department and, through Verdugo Fire Communications Services, with the Alhambra Fire Department, the Arcadia Fire Department, the Burbank Fire Department, the Glendale Fire Department, Monrovia Fire & Rescue, the Montebello Fire Department, the Monterey Park Fire Department. the Pasadena Fire Department, the San Gabriel Fire Department, the San Marino Fire Department, the Sierra Madre Fire Department and the South Pasadena Fire Department.
Department Profile[]
Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) and emergency medical services for Hollywood Burbank Airport are provided by the Hollywood Burbank Airport Fire Department, housed in a hangar/fire station in the northwest quadrant of the airport, with a minimum staffing level of five firefighters and one fire captain.
Dispatch[]
The Hollywood Burbank Airport Fire Department is part of a regional fire and emergency services delivery system referred to as the Verdugo Communications System/Unified Response, located in the City of Glendale, which provides dispatch services for 13 local agencies in the San Gabriel Valley and outside. As a participating agency, the Hollywood Burbank Airport Fire Department has agreed, along with the 12 other member jurisdictions, to eliminate jurisdictional borders for fire resource responses.
History[]
United Airport was dedicated on Memorial Day weekend (May 30 - June 1), 1930 as the largest commercial airport in the Los Angeles area until it was eclipsed in 1946 by the Los Angeles Airport in Westchester when that facility (formerly Mines Field, then Los Angeles Municipal Airport) commenced scheduled airline operations. The Burbank facility remained United Airport until 1934 when it was renamed Union Air Terminal until aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Corporation bought the airport in 1940 and renamed it Lockheed Air Terminal. In 1967 Lockheed renamed the facility Hollywood–Burbank Airport. The facility remained Hollywood–Burbank Airport for more than a decade until 1978 when Lockheed sold it to the Burbank–Glendale–Pasadena Airport Authority. The airport then got its fifth name: Burbank–Glendale–Pasadena Airport. On November 6, 2003, the airport authority voted to change the name to Bob Hope Airport in honor of comedian Bob Hope, a longtime resident of nearby Toluca Lake, who had died earlier that year and who had kept his personal airplane at the airfield. The new name was unveiled on December 17, 2003, on the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903, the year that Bob Hope was born. In 2017 it was rebranded as Hollywood Burbank Airport due to the lack of recognition of Bob Hope Airport's geographic region. Originally the entire airport was within the Burbank city limits, but the north end of Runway 15/33 has been extended into the City of Los Angeles.
Apparatus Roster[]
- All pump/tank measurements are in US gallons.
- California license plate denoted by CA#.
Fire Station 17 - Hangar 35, 2627 North Hollywood Way, Burbank[]
- Engine 17 - 2010 Pierce Impel (1500/500)
- Rescue 17 - 2018 Ford F-450 4x4 / EVI walk-around (SN#2758)
- Utility 17 - 2009 Ford F-450 Crew Cab DRW 4x4 / Knapheide (CA#1094920)
- ARFF 117 - 2023 Oshkosh Striker 1500 4x4 crash tender (1500/1585/222AFFF/550 lbs. DC)
- ARFF 217 - 2015 Rosenbauer Panther 4x4 crash tender (1850/1500/200AFFF/CAFS/500 lbs. DC) (CA#1227394) (Ex-Crash 2)
- ARFF 317 - 2021 Rosenbauer Panther 4x4 crash tender (2200/1500/200AFFF/500 lbs. DC) (CA#1386789)
- ARFF 417 (Reserve) - 2011 Rosenbauer Panther 4x4 crash tender (1850/1500/200AFFF/CAFS/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-Crash 4)
- Squad 17 - 2024 Ford F-350 4x4
Retired Apparatus[]
- 2007 Rosenbauer Panther 4x4 crash tender (1850/1500/200AFFF/CAFS/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-ARFF 117, ex-Crash 1)
- 2004 Oshkosh Striker 1500 4x4 crash tender (1500/1500/210AFFF/500 lbs. DC) (Ex-ARFF 317, ex-Crash 3) (Donated to Oxnard Airport Fire Rescue)
- 199? Chevrolet DRW 4x4 walk-around / Rosenbauer walk-around (CA#445897) (Ex-Rescue 17)
- 1998 Oshkosh T-1500 4x4 crash tender (1500/1000/195AFFF/900 lbs. DC) (Ex-Reserve ARFF unit, ex-Crash 4)