The city’s first motorized fire engine was restored over 15 years by the Huntington Beach Firefighters’ Association.

Rufer got to take a ride in a refurbished 1922 Seagrave, the Huntington Beach Fire Department’s first motorized fire engine, ...

A 102-year-old Orange County woman met her mechanical match this week: a fully restored fire engine that’s just as old as she is. Lois Rufer, 102-and-a-half by her count, took a ceremonial ride aboard ...

The wording of the plaque has thrown Huntington Beach — an Orange County surf town with 192,000 residents that’s about 30 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles — into the national spotlight.