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Framed Ephemera From The San Francisco Fire DepartmentBiblio.com

Ephemera From The San Francisco Fire Department

1914ref. A38792San Francisco CA: San Francisco Fire Department. Very Good. 1914. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a large framed group of ephemera - with information to be used by firemen in the course of their duties. The latest date on this material is July 1914. The frame is in very nice clean condition and is somewhat unusual in it's makeup - with screws and slats on the rear so it can be opened basically this frame is in the manor of a bulletin board which can be updated without too much difficulty . Inside the frame are five sheets of paper which have been notated with different tables including: SFFD Preliminary Comp. Calls & S. G. Signals Tapping & Clearance Drills for Various Taps Diameters of Drills Powers & Roots of Numbers SFFD Names and Locations of Apparatuses Standard Telegraph Code information and two sheets underneath which aren't really visible. "On July 11 1912 a unique contest was conducted in the presence of Chief Murphy the Fire Commissioners the Fire Committee of the Board of Supervisors and a large attending crowd. A newly designed motor drawn apparatus the Nott Motor Engine was to be pitted against the finest horse drawn rig in the Department. The object of the contest was to determine the swiftest and most efficient of the two. The start of the race was from Second Avenue & Clement Street the old house of Twenty-six Engine. At the sound of the gong the horses leaped into their collars and charged out the door smoke already belching from the steamer. The driver of the Nott Motor Engine cranked his machine and was quickly in pursuit. His objective was the hydrant at Thirteenth and Lake Streets. He made it in 2 minutes and 20 seconds and the crew had water out the nozzle in a total elapsed time of 3 minutes and 40 seconds. The foam flecked horses drew up to their hydrant at Eleventh and Lake in 3 minutes and 55 seconds with water flowing in 5 minutes and 6 seconds. Everyone knew what the results meant. The days of the horses had passed and after this time none were purchased for Fire Department use. In 1903 the first electric auto had been purchased for the Chief and three more were bought in 1905 but they proved unreliable and none were in service at the time of the Fire. The first motor driven apparatus was installed in Chemical Company No. 3 on Bush Street in 1912. In March of the next year the first auto-driven steam engine was installed at Engine Company Twenty-eight Stockton and Greenwich Streets." from the SFFD historical page . San Francisco Fire Department hardcover

S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB) · United States$250.00≈ €223.35

Staten Island Ferry Terminal FireABAA

Emergency Response to the St. George Ferry Terminal Fire Staten Island NY- 1946

1946ref. 234361946. Photographs documenting the emergency response to the nine-alarm fire that destroyed the St. George ferry and railway terminal on Staten Island in June 1946 recording fire apparatus a hospital ambulance crew and rescue workers amid the smoking wreckage. The fire began at 2:30 in the afternoon of June 25 1946 under a car and spread to the terminal's wooden support pilings. Nine alarms were transmitted within half an hour summoning fifty land companies and six fireboats; three civilians were killed and more than 250 firemen and 30 civilians were injured or overcome by smoke. Photo archive of 8 silver gelatin snapshot photographs approximately 5 x 3 inches Staten Island New York with the original mailing envelope inscribed in ink "Martha Staten Island Ferry Terminal burnt down June 1947." One image centers a panel-body ambulance lettered "St. Vincent's Hospital" and "Staten Island" parked beside an open rear ambulance where attendants in white tend a patient. Another shows workmen uniformed officers and helmeted firemen clustered around the rescue vehicles below the gutted upper story. Several frames show pairs of wooden and steel rapid transit cars standing scorched on the rails beneath the twisted collapsed ribs of the train shed windows blown out and roofs caved in. A trackside view captures fire engines lined nose to tail along the roadway. The nine alarms transmitted within thirty minutes the fifty land companies and the Manhattan units racing through the Holland Tunnel show standard FDNY multi-borough mutual aid working at full stretch recorded by a bystander close enough to walk the platforms. The St. George fire ranks among the worst in Staten Island history and FDNY commanders called it one of the most stubborn blazes they had faced the burning rooted deep in the terminal's wooden pilings over the water. The destroyed structure was replaced by an entirely new $21 million terminal that opened in 1951. Overall in very good condition. A direct on-the-ground record of a multi-borough emergency response to a fatal nine-alarm fire that erased a major New York transit terminal. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · United States$450.00≈ €402.04

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