Living With Fire at Big Bear Lake – Part 4, The 1940’s and 1950’s | Big Bear History Site

Our four part series of “Living With Fire” looks at how the Big Bear Lake communities have dealt with the threat of fire over the last 100 years.  This Part 4 episode takes a quick look at how the Big Bear Valley Fire Departments evolved since the 1940’s.

The images for this video were provided by the recently published “Vanishing Big Bear-2”, and from the historical collections of Rick Keppler, and Mark Durban. “Vanishing Big Bear-2” is a hardbound 8.5” x 11” book. It is available at Butchers Block and other retailers in Big Bear Valley, and online at FascinatingBigBear.com and at Amazon.com.