Fire Department

Contains 239 photos

Fillmore & Fell
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Fillmore & Fell

[Firemen ascending ladders in four-alarm blaze here in which four persons died, 17 were hurt, some 16 persons were carried to safety down ladders. 200 firemen fought the blaze.]

Lower Haight
Bush & Taylor
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Bush & Taylor

View northeast across Bush to ruins of Engine Company No. 38 fire house, later site of Dennis T. Sullivan Memorial Fire Chief's Home. Ruins of Fairmont Hotel and Flood Mansion in distance left. To right of Fairmont is the San Francisco Institute of Art (Formerly the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art) building, opened in 1907, and later replaced by the Mark Hopkins Hotel. A large new apartment building is behind the fire house

Lower Nob Hill
2nd & Townsend
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2nd & Townsend

Northwest corner of 2nd Street and Townsend, the building still stands as the headquarters of SF Fire Department. [Pumping station 1, 2nd & Townsend dpwbook3 dpw515]

South Beach
Ashbury Heights Tank
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Ashbury Heights Tank

Clayton near 17th Street (opposite Carmel), Ashbury Heights High Pressure Tank [dpwbook4 dpw698]

19th Ave near Rivera
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19th Ave near Rivera

Chemical Engine Company Firehouse No. 12 - 2156 19th Avenue near Rivera [dpwbook5 dpw1408]

Golden Gate Heights
Jefferson Square
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Jefferson Square

View south to building of Central Fire Alarm Station (SW corner, Turk & Octavia) [dpwbook9 dpw1903]

Cathedral Hill
Jefferson Square
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Jefferson Square

Central Alarm Station under construction. [dpwbook9 dpw1923]

Cathedral Hill
Jefferson Square
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Jefferson Square

View south across Turk to Central Fire Alarm nearly complete [dpwbook9 dpw1951]

Cathedral Hill
45th Ave near Judah
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45th Ave near Judah

45th Avenue between Irving & Judah. SF Fire Department Chemical Engine Company number 12, 1348 45th Avenue. The building has been replaced by a more modern station. [dpwbook10 dpw2186]

Sunset Outer
Jefferson Square
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Jefferson Square

Central Fire Alarm Jefferson Square [dpwbook11 dpw2204]

Cathedral Hill
Jefferson Square
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Jefferson Square

Central Fire Alarm Jefferson Square [dpwbook11 dpw2332]

Cathedral Hill
Jefferson Square
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Jefferson Square

Central Fire Alarm Jefferson Square [dpwbook11 dpw2333]

Cathedral Hill
Stockton & Francisco
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Stockton & Francisco

View toward southwest corner of Stockton and Francisco. SF Fire Department storage and repair shops. Now the site of the playground of Francisco Middle School. (2021) [dpwbook13 dpw2614]

North Beach
Stockton near Broadway
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Stockton near Broadway

1235 Stockton between Broadway and Pacific. Engine Company 5 Buildings on either side still stand. [dpwbook13 dpw2687]

Chinatown
Pacific near Polk
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Pacific near Polk

View north to SFFD Engine Co. No. 8 Firehouse, 1648 Pacific, opened 1917[dpwbook18 dpw3957]

Polk Gulch