The Firehorses of San Francisco
Author | : Natlee Kenoyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Draft horses |
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Author | : Natlee Kenoyer |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Draft horses |
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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.
Author | : Exempt Fire Company, San Francisco |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Fire fighters |
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Author | : Bill Koenig |
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Total Pages | : |
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.
Author | : |
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.
Author | : Exempt Fire Company, San Francisco |
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Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 1900 |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Fire fighters |
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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.
Author | : Lawrence Joseph Kennedy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Earthquakes |
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Author | : Charles A. Fracchia |
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Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Associations, institutions, etc |
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The first half is a pictorial history of San Francisco; the second half describes many businesses and institutions that enrich San Francisco.