Firemen

Contains 51 photos

Bayshore Factory Fire
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Bayshore Factory Fire

Aerial view of 4 alarm fire at Kunst Bros. Paint Factory 419 Bayshore, near Cortland

Bernal Heights
Bayshore Factory Fire
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Bayshore Factory Fire

Aerial view of 4 alarm fire at Kunst Bros. Paint Factory 419 Bayshore, near Cortland

Bernal Heights
Bayshore Factory Fire
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Bayshore Factory Fire

Aerial view of 4 alarm fire at Kunst Bros. Paint Factory 419 Bayshore, near Cortland, Goodman Lumber at bottom

Bernal Heights
Bayshore Factory Fire
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Bayshore Factory Fire

Aerial view of 4 alarm fire at Kunst Bros. Paint Factory 419 Bayshore, near Cortland, US101 freeway construction at bottom

Bernal Heights
Clay Theater Fire
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Clay Theater Fire

Clay & Fillmore, Market Street Railway truck 112 used as auxiliary fire apparatus. Hob Nob Creamery, 2257 Fillmore , to right of theater entrance. The Owl Cleaners and Dyers

Pacific Heights
Ellis near Powell
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Ellis near Powell

View west from center of Ellis near Powell to group of firefighters in front of Capitol Theater (built 1911 as Cort Theater, demolished 1941). Hotel Willard, Golden State Hotel, St. Germain Restaurant, Germain Hotel, The Danube restaurant. Flood Building at far left. Wright's Billiards, Pasadena Hotel, Rialto Bowling. [Capitol Theater Fire 48624]

Downtown / Union Square
Fire on Treasure Island
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Fire on Treasure Island

California Building burned, San Francisco Building to right, looking east from Lake of the Nations

SF Bay
Civic Center
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Civic Center

[8734] Fire Engines on Fulton Street at Civic Center. City Hall in background, Main Library at right.

Civic Center
Fell near Divisadero
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Fell near Divisadero

View northeast across Fell to building fire with firefighter on ladder at 3rd story window and another watching from the street. This building still stands in 2023. Fell Boulevard Fruit & Vegetable Market, Piggly Wiggly. Queen Anne drug store building in distance at Divisadero corner built 1888-1889 as Theodore Green Apothecary, Samuel Newsom architect. It is San Francisco Landmark #182. [Fire- Fell & Divisadero 48030]

Panhandle
Daly City, CA
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Daly City, CA

Firefighters pouring water on collapsed and burning house (73 Alexander Avenue between Roosevelt and Templeton Avenues). Army fighter plane crash and fire. Negative 4 of 10 from event.

Outside SF
Daly City, CA
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Daly City, CA

Army fighter plane crash and fire. 73 Alexander Avenue collapsed and on fire between Roosevelt and Templeton Avenues. Firefighters hosing down wreckage while others examine debris from explosion. Negative 5 out of 10 from event.

Outside SF
Daly City, CA
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Daly City, CA

Army fighter plane crash and fire. Northeasterly view of first block of Alexander Avenue between Roosevelt and Templeton Avenues. Firefighters hosing down 73 Alexander Avenue house. Negative 7 of 10 from event.

Outside SF
Daly City, CA
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Daly City, CA

Army fighter plane crash and fire. Westerly view of first block of Alexander Avenue between Roosevelt and Templeton Avenues. 73 Alexander Avenue collapsed and still smoldering. Military personnel searching debris for unexploded ammunition. Negative 8 of 10 from event.

Outside SF
Unknown Location
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Unknown Location

1906 Earthquake and Fire, Fire pump/firemen; horse and wagon, Wood & Co. in ruins, fire approaching, Mahoney political sign

Clayton & Carl
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Clayton & Carl

View north toward a fire at 889 Clayton Street, between Carl and Parnassus [1 of 12 fires, at the latest report, that have caused danage exceeeding $100,000 here today (5/8) is shown being brought under control by 150 firemen and over a dozen pieces of equipment. This three-alarmer almost completely destroyed one three-story home and caused considerable damage to one on either side...]

Cole Valley