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Materials Relating to the San Francisco Fire Department: Fire horses : farewell, good and faithful servants
Author | : Frederick J. Bowlen |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
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Genre | : Engine companies |
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Typescript (carbon) narratives on various aspects of the history of the San Francisco Fire Department written and compiled by Frederick J. Bowlen, who served the S.F.F.D. as Battalion Chief and Department Historian.
The Exempt Firemen of San Francisco
Author | : Exempt Fire Company, San Francisco |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Fire fighters |
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Everything Took Time
Author | : Bill Koenig |
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Release | : 2020-08-18 |
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ISBN | : 9781949478532 |
8.5 x 11 Hardcover with Dust Jacket256 pages including 32 color pagesAt 5:12 on the morning of April 18, 1906, a mild foreshock shook San Francisco. Twenty-five seconds later, the Great Earthquake, lasting almost a minute, devastated the City. In San Francisco, this historic event is more often referred to as the Great Fire.Within the first hours, 52 fires spread across the City. The quake destroyed the central fire alarm and telephone systems; thus, no alarms sounded to the 584 members of the Fire Department. The department was without any means of communication; every company was on its own.The engine companies responded to visible fires but discovered the quake had broken most of the water mains. As firefighters searched desperately for working hydrants, small-unchecked building fires merged into large, uncontrolled fires. Before long, the conflagration engulfed 4.7 square miles of the City.Despite these setbacks and challenges, the San Francisco Fire Department fought on, day and night until, late in the evening on April 20th, they extinguished the fire and saved the City.Everything Took Time transports you to those three eventful days in April 1906 to experience the heroic battle of the San Francisco firefighters. Author Bill Koenig gives the events immediacy citing contemporary newspaper articles and takes you behind the scenes with previously unpublished officers' reports. Leave your 21st-century viewpoints behind and read how the department managed a disaster of this magnitude without the tools we have today.
Black Fire
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Publisher | : Crown Pub |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030772056X |
Traces the lesser-known story of a volunteer fireman, marine engineer and poker buddy of Mark Twain who inspired the character of Tom Sawyer, describing his pivotal contributions to the hunt for a serial arsonist in 1850s San Francisco. 30,000 first printing.
The Exempt Firemen of San Francisco :their Unique and Gallant Record, with a Resume of the San Francisco Fire Department and Its Personnel; Historical, Biographical
Author | : Exempt Fire Company, San Francisco |
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Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 1900 |
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The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Of 1906
Author | : Louise Chipley Slavicek |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Earthquakes |
ISBN | : 1438118163 |
Examines the devastating earthquake that struck San Francisco in 1906 and the resulting fires that destroyed a large section of the city.
San Francisco is Burning
Author | : Dennis Smith |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
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"At 5:12 A.M. on the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by one of the worst earthquakes ever recorded, a disaster that instantly killed hundreds and leveled large sections of the city. The quake has become a watershed event in American history, yet with the passage of time its drama has overshadowed the even greater calamity to which it gave rise: the fires that broke out as the result of toppling chimneys, broken flues, and severed gas lines. These blazes burned for days and were ultimately responsible for the deaths of as many as three thousand people, the destruction of more than five hundred blocks and twenty-eight thousand buildings, and the dislocation of some two hundred thousand residents." "In San Francisco Is Burning, Dennis Smith recounts the three terrible days of the tragedy with an almost cinematic immediacy, tracing the drama through the experiences of a number of people who lived it: a valiant naval officer who helped save the city's piers and wharves, the corrupt mayor, a firefighter who witnessed firsthand the staggering intensity of the fires, a woman who ran a shelter in Chinatown, and the army general who took command of the city and inadvertently placed the city and its people at even greater risk." "Above all, San Francisco Is Burning is a compelling and timely account of how a city copes with catastrophe - how it prepares for such contingencies and how effectively it deals with them when they occur. Smith reveals how San Francisco's corrupt municipal government had paid little heed to the warnings of its fire chief about the inadequacies of the public water system, a failing that would leave the city particularly vulnerable to spreading blazes. Once the fires began, a number of decisions made by the emergency leadership not only proved ineffective hut actually exacerbated the situation. Dynamiting to create firebreaks became, in the hands of amateurs, a dangerous incendiary, while the enforced evacuation of many of the city's neighborhoods deprived them of a volunteer fire brigade, desperate to save their own homes. But the most drastic measure - the declaration of martial law and posting of militia with shoot-to-kill orders against looters - turned out to be the most damaging of all as it led to senseless deaths and the demoralizing of an already overwhelmed populace."--BOOK JACKET.
The Progress of the Fire in San Francisco April 18th-21st, 1906
Author | : Lawrence Joseph Kennedy |
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Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Earthquakes |
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