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Notice: Important Meeting to Form a Fire Department 1849 The First Six Great Fires 1849-1851 Eyewitness to the Sixth Great Fire 1851 First Fire Companies Organized 1850-1854 San Franciscos Pioneer Steam Fire-Engine 1856 End of the Volunteer Department 1866 The Departments Early History, by Chief Frederick F. Postel How the Fire Department Telegraph is Worked 1877 Daniel Hayes and the Hayes Ladder Truck 1900 History of the Departments Leather Helmets Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 Includes Official Company Officers Reports Death of Chief Dennis T. Sullivan 1906 New Water Supply for Earthquakes 1908 New Central Fire Alarm Station for San Francisco 1912 Evolution of the Department 1866-1918 End of the Steam Era 1922 The Departments Response to the 1923 Berkeley Conflagration A New Home for Fire Chiefs 1923 House of Alarm Bells - Central Fire Alarm Station 1937 The 1989 Earthquake Complete Department Report The 1991 Oakland Firestorm Complete Department Report
See: San Franciso Fire Index for more.