San Francisco Fire Department |
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Established | 1866 |
Staffing | Career |
Strength | 1,700 |
Stations | 44 |
Engines | 42 |
Trucks | 19 |
Rescues | 2 |
Fireboats | 2 |
EMS Units | 45 |
EMS Level | ALS & BLS |
Fire chief | Joanne Hayes-White |
Commissioner | Paul Conroy Stephen Nakajo George Lau Victor Makras Clementine Clarke |
The San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) provides fire and emergency medical services to the City and County of San Francisco, California.
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, the daytime-commuter population, and the thousands of other visitors, tourists, and others present in the city every day) with approximately 1,700 firefighting and emergency medical field personnel. The department responds to, on average, approximately 73,000 emergency calls annually, with over 80% being emergency medical calls.
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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 Sullivan was killed in his home by a falling chimney early in the disaster.
Operations
Fire Apparatus Profile
- 44 Fire Stations[1]
- 42 Engine Companies
- 19 Truck Companies
- 45 ALS Ambulances(Variable staffing based on time of day)
- 2 Rescue Squads
- 2 Divisions(Division: 2, 3)
- 9 Battalions(Battalion: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
- 2 Fireboats (Fireboat: Phoenix, Guardian)
- 4 Rescue Captain Units
- 1 CO2 Unit
- 2 Mobile Air Units
- 1 Cliff Rescue Unit
- 1 Swift-Water/Surf Rescue Unit
- 1 CBRNE USAR Rescue Unit
- 1 Hazardous Materials(Haz-Mat.) Unit
- 2 Decon. Units
- 2 Mass Casualty Units
- 1 Pollution Control Unit
- 4 Wildland/Brush Mini-Pumpers
- 2 Attack Hose Tenders
- 3 Hose Tenders
- 1 High-Pressure Battery Unit
- 1 Light Tower Unit
- 1 Fuel Truck
- 1 Utility Unit
- 2 Mobile Air Support Units
- 1 Tow Unit
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Fire station locations
Engine Company | Truck Company | Rescue Squad Company | Special Unit | Command Unit | Address |
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Engine 1 | Truck 1 | Rescue Squad 1 | 676 Howard St. | ||
Engine 2 | Truck 2 | Battalion 1 | 1340 Powell St. | ||
Engine 3 | Truck 3 | 1067 Post St. | |||
Engine 5 | Truck 5 | Light Rescue 5 | Division 2 | 1301 Turk St. | |
Engine 6 | Truck 6 | 135 Sanchez St. | |||
Engine 7 | Truck 7 | Rescue Squad 2 | Light Rescue 7 | Division 3 | 2300 Folsom St. |
Engine 8 | Truck 8 | Battalion 3 | 36 Bluxome St. | ||
Engine 9 | Truck 9 | Hose Tender 9 | Battalion 10 | 2245 Jerrold Ave. | |
Engine 10 | Truck 10 | CBRNE 1, Decon. Unit 1 | 655 Presidio Ave. | ||
Engine 11 | Truck 11 | Rescue Captain 3 | Battalion 6 | 3380 26th St. | |
Engine 12 | Truck 12 | 1145 Stanyan St. | |||
Engine 13 | Truck 13 | Rescue Captain 1, Attack Hose Tender 13, CO2 Unit, Light Tower Unit | 530 Sansome St. | ||
Engine 14 | Truck 14 | 551 26th Ave. | |||
Engine 15 | Truck 15 | Battalion 9 | 1000 Ocean Ave. | ||
Engine 16 | Truck 16 | Jet Ski Units, Rescue Boat | 2251 Greenwich St. | ||
Engine 17 | Truck 17 | High-Pressure Battery Unit | 1295 Shafter St. | ||
Engine 18 | Truck 18 | Surf Rescue 1 | 1935 32nd Ave. | ||
Engine 19 | Truck 19 | 390 Buckingham Way | |||
Engine 20 | Mobile Air 1, Mobile Air 2, Pollution Control Unit | 285 Olympia Way | |||
Engine 21 | Rescue 21, Attack Hose Tender 21 | 1443 Grove St. | |||
Engine 22 | Hose Tender 22 | 1290 16th Ave. | |||
Engine 23 | 1348 45th Ave. | ||||
Engine 24 | 100 Hoffman Ave. | ||||
Engine 25 | Mini-Pumper 25, Mass Casualty Unit 1 | 3305 3rd St. | |||
Engine 26 | 80 Digby St. | ||||
Engine 28 | 1814 Stockton St. | ||||
Engine 29 | Decon. Unit 2 | 299 Vermont St. | |||
Engine 31 | Rescue Captain 2 | Battalion 7 | 441 12th Ave. | ||
Engine 32 | Mini-Pumper 32 | 194 Park St. | |||
Engine 33 | 8 Capital Ave. | ||||
Engine 34 | Cliff Rescue 1 | 499 41st Ave. | |||
Fireboat 1, Fireboat 2 | Pier 22½, The Embarcadero | ||||
Engine 36 | Haz-Mat. 1 | Battalion 2 | 109 Oak St. | ||
Engine 37 | 798 Wisconsin St. | ||||
Engine 38 | Mobile Command 1 | Battalion 4 | 2150 California St. | ||
Engine 39 | Mass Casualty Unit 2 | 1091 Portola Dr. | |||
Engine 40 | Battalion 8 | 2155 18th Ave. | |||
Engine 41 | 1325 Leavenworth St. | ||||
Engine 42 | 2430 San Bruno Ave. | ||||
Engine 43 | Mini-Pumper 43 | 720 Moscow St. | |||
Engine 44 | Mini-Pumper 44 | 1298 Girard St. | |||
Engine 48 | Truck 48 | Rescue Ambulance 48, Hose Tender 48 | Bldg. 157, Avenue D, Treasure Island | ||
Station 49 | Medic Units, Rescue Captain 4, Logistics Center | 1415 Evans St. | |||
Engine 51 | 218 Lincoln Ave., Presidio of San Francisco (Part of National Park Service and GGNRA) |
Closed Fire Companies/Locations
- Engine 4, Truck 4 - 1648 Pacific Ave., Nob Hill - Closed 1979 (New Station 4 Currently Under Construction in Mission Bay Scheduled Completion Summer 2014)
- Engine 27 - 356 7th St., South of Market - Closed 1980
- Engine 30 - 1300 4th St., Mission Rock - Closed 1976
- Engine 35 - Pier 22 1/2 w/Fireboat, South of Market - Moved to 530 Sansome St., Financial District(Engine 13/Truck 13) - Closed 2009
- Engine 45 - 1348 45th Ave., Ocean Beach - Closed 1972
- Engine 46 - 441 12th Ave., Inner Richmond - Closed 1972
- Engine 47 - 499 41st Ave., Bayview - Closed 1973
- Engine 49 - 2155 18th Ave., Parkside - Closed 1972
- Truck 20 - 285 Olympia Wy., Golen Gate Heights(Engine 23) - Closed 1980
- Battalion 5 - 1443 Grove St., Haight(Engine 21) - Closed 2003
- Battalion 11 - 798 Wisconsin St., , Potrero Hill(Engine 48 - Formerly) - Closed 1970
- Division 1 - Pier 22 1/2 w/Fireboat, Downtown(Engine 35) - Closed 2002
Response Guidelines
- Box/1st Alarm Assignment:
- 3 Engines
- 2 Trucks
- 1 Rescue Squad
- 2 Battalion Chiefs
- 1 Division Chief
- 1 Medic Unit
- Working Fire/Full Box Assignment:
- 1 Engine(R.I.T.)
- 1 Rescue Captain
- 2nd Alarm Assignment:
- 4 Engines
- 1 Truck
- 1 Battalion Chief
- 1 Medic Unit
- 1 Rescue Captain
- 1 Mobile Air Unit
- 3rd Alarm Assignment:
- 4 Engines
- 2 Trucks
- 1 Battalion Chief
- 1 Medic Unit
- Fire Reserve Activated
- Chief and Deputy Chiefs of Dept. Notified
- 4th Alarm Assignment:
- 4 Engines
- 1 Truck
- 1 Battalion Chief
- 1 Medic Unit
- 5th Alarm Assignment:
- 4 Engines
- 1 Truck
- 1 Battalion Chief
- 1 Medic Unit
In popular culture
- 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.
- 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 (said 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 fiction lives of SFFD paramedics, EMTs and flight medics.
References
- ^ "City & County of San Francisco". Sfgov.org. http://www.sfgov.org/site/fire_index.asp. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
External links
- San Francisco Fire Department Official Website
- San Francisco Fire Museum
- History of the San Francisco Fire Department at the SF Museum
- SFFD Fire Reserve Website