San Francisco Fire Department

San Francisco Fire Department
Operational area
Country  United States
State  California
City San Francisco
Agency overview[1]
Established 1866
Annual calls 135,091 (2015)
Employees 1,449 (2012)
Annual budget $326,072,813 (2012)
Staffing Career
Fire chief Joanne Hayes-White
EMS level ALS & BLS
IAFF 798
Facilities and equipment[2]
Divisions 2
Battalions 9
Stations 45
Engines 44
Trucks 20
Ambulances 16 ALS
Tenders 1
HAZMAT 1
USAR 1
Airport crash 4
Wildland 4 - Mini-Pumpers
Fireboats 3
Website
Official website
IAFF website

The San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) provides fire and emergency medical services to the City and County of San Francisco, California.[3][4] The San Francisco Fire Department, along with the San Francisco Police Department and San Francisco Sheriff's Department, serves an estimated population of 1.4 million people, which includes the approximately 850,000 citizens residing in the 47.5 square miles (123 km2) of San Francisco (including Treasure Island, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, the San Francisco International Airport, and the Presidio of San Francisco/Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

History

Volunteer companies were first formed in the city in 1850, and a paid staff established in 1866. In 1906, the department was considered on a par with those of the larger cities on the East Coast, but found itself reduced to fighting the fire of 1906 in the quake aftermath with axes and shovels, as most of the city's water mains were broken and cisterns drained. Fire Chief Dennis T. Sullivan suffered mortal wounds in his home by a falling chimney early in the disaster and subsequently died in the hospital.

Operations

Fireboats

The Phoenix docked at Pier ​22 1⁄2.

The SFFD has three fireboats that are docked at Pier ​22 1⁄2. Fireboat 1, the Phoenix, was constructed in 1954 and is fitted with three deck monitors, a water town and two under pier monitors.[5] Fireboat 2, the Guardian, was constructed in 1950 and is the oldest fireboat in the fleet.[6] Both boats are 89-foot (27 m) and outfitted with two 500 horsepower (370 kW) engines giving them top speeds of 12.5 knots (14.4 mph; 23.2 km/h) (Guardian) and 15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h) (Phoenix). A third new 85-foot fireboat (Fireboat 3) was christened the St. Francis in October 2016.[7][8][9]

Fire Stations and Apparatus

Fireboat Guardian stands on alert status near the Bay Bridge.
SFFD Truck 3 operating at a fire in the Tenderloin.
The former Fire Station # 1, located on Howard Street
SFFD Engine 16, quartered in the Marina District
Two SFFD truck companies at the scene of a 4th-alarm fire on 41st Ave. in the Sunset District

Below is a full listing of all fire station and company locations in the City & County of San Francisco according to division and battalion.[10]

There are also three SFFD-operated fire stations located at the San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County.

Fire Station Neighborhood Engine Company Truck Company Special Unit Chief Bat. Div.
1 South of MarketEngine 1Truck 1Rescue Squad 123
2 ChinatownEngine 2Truck 2Battalion 112
3 TenderloinEngine 3Truck 343
4 Mission BayEngine 4Truck 433
5 Fillmore District52
6 CastroEngine 6, Engine 5Truck 6Decon 123
7 Mission DistrictEngine 7Truck 7Rescue Squad 2, Light Rescue 7Division 363
8 South BeachEngine 8Truck 8Battalion 333
9 Bernal HeightsEngine 9Truck 9Battalion 10103
10 Presidio HeightsEngine 10Truck 10

Truck 16

CBRNE 152
11 Noe ValleyEngine 11Truck 11Battalion 6, Rescue Captain 363
12 Haight-AshburyEngine 12Truck 1252
13 Financial DistrictEngine 13Truck 13CO2 Unit 1, Mobile Command 1Rescue Captain 112
14 Outer RichmondEngine 14Truck 1472
15 InglesideEngine 15Truck 15Battalion 993
16 Marina District, Marina Green
Fort Mason		Rescue Boat 1, Rescue Water Craft 1, Rescue Water Craft 2 (Kept at San Francisco Marina Craft Harbor)42
17 Bayview-Hunters PointEngine 17Truck 17Portable Hydrant Tender 17103
18 Outer ParksideEngine 18Truck 18Coastal Rescue Unit 1 (Surf Rescue)82
19 Stonestown Galleria
Fort Funston		Engine 19Truck 19Haz-Mat. Assist Trailer92
20 Laguna Honda ReservoirEngine 20Mobile Air Unit 1, Mobile Air Unit 2, Pollution Control Unit, Mobile Air Support Trailer 182
21 PanhandleEngine 21Attack Hose Tender 21, Utility Unit 1Battalion 553
22 Golden Gate ParkEngine 22Portable Hydrant Tender 2272
23 Sunset DistrictEngine 2382
24 Dolores HeightsEngine 2463
25 Dog PatchEngine 25Mini-Pumper 25, Multi-Casualty Unit 1103
26 Glen ParkEngine 2663
28 North BeachEngine 2812
29 Design DistrictEngine 29Decon. Unit 223
31 Inner RichmondEngine 31Battalion 7, Rescue Captain 272
32 College HillEngine 32Mini-Pumper 3263
33 OceanviewEngine 3393
34 Lands EndEngine 34Coastal Rescue Unit 2 (Cliff Rescue)72
35 Pier ​22 1⁄2Engine 35Fireboat 1 Phoenix, Fireboat 2 Guardian, Fireboat 3 St. Francis33
36 Civic CenterEngine 36Haz-Mat. 1, Haz-Mat. 2Battalion 223
37 Potrero HillEngine 37103
38 Pacific HeightsEngine 38Truck 5 Light Rescue 5Battalion 4

Division 2

42
39 Forest HillEngine 39Multi-Casualty Unit 293
40 Inner ParksideEngine 40Battalion 882
41 Nob HillEngine 4112
42 PortolaEngine 42Portable Hydrant Tender 42103
43 ExcelsiorEngine 43Mini-Pumper 43, OES Unit 24893
44 Visitacion ValleyEngine 44Mini-Pumper 44103
48 Treasure IslandEngine 48Truck 48Rescue Ambulance 48, Hose Tender 48, Portable Hydrant Tender 4833
49 India BasinALS Medic Units, BioMed Unit, Arson Unit, Logistics Units, Supply UnitsRescue Captain 4103
51 Presidio of San FranciscoEngine 51

Engine 16

42

SFO Stations

All apparatus at SFO go by the 'Rescue' call sign, whether Engine, Truck, ARFF Crash, Medic Unit, or Command SUV.

Location Engine Truck Medic ARFF Crash Command Other
1 West End of airportRescue 56Rescue 47, Rescue 44 (relief)Rescue 91Rescue 10, Rescue 37 (Relief)Rescue 67-Rescue Captain (Paramedic Supervisor)
2 Intersection of
four runways		Rescue 11, Rescue 9,Rescue 40 (Relief)Rescue 61 (Utility), Airboat 51, RHIB, Rescue 55 (40' long Firefighting/Rescue Boat)
3 South End of airportRescue 33Rescue 93Rescue 12, Rescue 49 (relief), Rescue 41 (relief)Rescue 65 (Batt Chief)

Disbanded fire companies

Throughout the history of the San Francisco Fire Department there have been several fire companies which have been closed due to budget cuts and the restructuring of engine company numbers in 1972–1973.

  • Engine Company 27 (356 7th St.): Disbanded July 1, 1976
  • Engine Company 30 (1300 4th St.): Disbanded July 1, 1976
  • Engine Company 45 (1348 45th Ave.): Disbanded September 26, 1972
  • Engine Company 46 (441 12th Ave.): Disbanded May 16, 1972
  • Engine Company 47 (499 41st Ave.): Disbanded May 25, 1973
  • Engine Company 49 (2155 18th Ave.): Disbanded July 20, 1972
  • Truck Company 20 (285 Olympia Way: Disbanded September 30, 1980
  • Division 1 (530 Sansome St.): Disbanded January 2, 2002
  • Battalion 5 (1443 Grove St.): August 30, 2003, Reinstated January 4, 2017
  • Battalion 11 (798 Wisconsin St.): Disbanded July 1, 1970
  • Salvage Company 1 (356 7th St.): Disbanded 1980
  • Salvage Company 2 (115 Drumm St.): Disbanded 1975
  • Salvage Company 3 (441 12th Ave.): Disbanded 1977
  • Salvage Company 4 (299 Vermont St.): Disbanded 1986
San Francisco Fire Station 12 fire truck with Grateful Dead–inspired logo sticker
  • The SFFD was the responding fire department to a major high-rise fire disaster in the 1974 film, The Towering Inferno. The film cast many actual firefighters from the department and used many actual SFFD fire trucks during the filming. Fire Station 38 was also shown in the filming. The exterior shots were done at the Bank of America Building, 555 California.
  • Actor Steve McQueen was given a San Francisco Fire Department Honorary Battalion Chief badge #33 with ID in recognition for his accurate portrayal of San Francisco Battalion Fire Chief Mike O'Halloran.
  • The SFFD was also used in the Dirty Harry film series, particularly Rescue Squad 2 in Dirty Harry.
  • When a veteran SFFD firefighter is killed and Adrian Monk is blinded in a mysterious attack at a firehouse in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk Can't See a Thing", Monk must rely on his other senses to solve the bizarre case. In the course of the episode, he finds that the killer came to the firehouse to steal a fireman's coat and even finds that the man who blinded him had just beforehand killed a woman a few blocks away and set fire to her house (that fire was the one the engine company had been responding to when the murder at the firehouse took place). The depicted fire station, Fire Station 53, is a fictitious station. The exterior of the station was represented by Fire Station 1 of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
  • In the Monk novel series by Lee Goldberg, Joe Cochran, Natalie Teeger's occasional lover, is an SFFD firefighter, making appearances in the novels Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse, Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, and Mr. Monk in Outer Space.
  • The SFFD was featured in two Emergency! television movies in 1978 and 1979, where L.A. County firefighter/paramedics Gage and DeSoto run calls with the firefighters of Rescue Squad 2.
  • The NBC Television show Trauma followed the fictional lives of SFFD paramedics, EMTs and flight medics.
  • The department is featured in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill. After San Francisco City Hall is set ablaze by the villainous Max Zorin in an attempt to kill Bond, the SFFD arrives on scene and assists Roger Moore's character in escaping the burning building and then ultimately "borrows" a SFFD ladder truck in order to outrun the police officers chasing him on the suspicion that his character set the blaze.
  • The CBS television series Rescue 911's episode #107 the 4th segment featured the San Francisco Fire Department responding to an apartment fire and in one of the scenes, sparks shoot over a firetruck from a broken wire from a powerline. The station was Station #9, built in 1915.

References

  1. ↑ "Annual Report 2012-2013 (FY)". San Francisco Fire Derpartment. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Apparatus Inventory" (PDF). San Francisco Fire Department. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Fire Department -". www.sf-fire.org. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "About Us - Fire Department". www.sf-fire.org. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "San Francisco Fire Department Apparatus Inventory" (PDF). San Francisco Fire Department - Fireboat Phoenix. Division of Training. pp. 84–85. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "San Francisco Fire Department Apparatus Inventory" (PDF). San Francisco Fire Department. Division of Training. pp. 83–84. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "New Fire Boat Joins San Francisco's Department". Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  8. ↑ "Media Advisories & PSAs | Fire Department". sf-fire.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  9. ↑ Nolte, Carl (October 17, 2016). "SF welcomes new fireboat to fleet on anniversary of Loma Prieta". San Francisco Chronicle.
  10. ↑ "Fire Station Locations - Fire Department". www.sf-fire.org. Retrieved 21 April 2018.

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