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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Bob Pool / The Bulletin
November 29, 2010
LOS ANGELES — For 70 years Arnett Hartsfield has been called a rookie.
And for most of that time, the truth behind the nickname haunted him.
He was the 80th black man to join the Los Angeles Fire Department when he signed up in 1940. At the time he was a UCLA student aiming for an engineering....
