{"id":26953,"date":"2022-10-27T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000022931"},"modified":"2022-10-21T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:43:10","slug":"fire-station-12-haunted-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/news\/fire-station-12-haunted-long-beach","title":{"rendered":"Explore Long Beach&#8217;s most haunted places: Today, Fire Station 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re rolling out all of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/tag\/haunted-long-beach\">Haunted Long Beach series<\/a> videos ahead of Sunday\u2019s debut of our newest edition: A tour of the historic Bembridge House in Drake Park.<\/p>\n<p>But first, we revisit the legend of the former Fire Station 12\u2014now a City Council field office\u2014which is so notorious for its ghost that it landed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firerescue1.com\/history\/articles\/10-of-americas-most-haunted-fire-stations-o89SwrVNKYFOpku2\/\">a list<\/a>\u00a0of the nation\u2019s 10 most haunted firehouses.<\/p>\n<p>John Makemson, a firefighter known as \u201cSmokey\u201d who died of natural causes in 1988, has never quite left the building. 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