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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 Francisco’s Pioneer Steam Fire-Engine — 1856 End of the Volunteer Department — 1866 The Department’s 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 Department’s 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 Department’s 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.