index | by subject | by year | biographies | books | SF Activities | shop museum | contact -- Select a Major Online Exhibit -- United Nations Special Projects 1849 California Gold Rush History of the San Francisco Fire Department Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 “Who Perished” List of Dead from the 1906 Earthquake 1906 Earthquake Photographs San Franciscans Survive Titanic Sinking Construction of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges 1989 San Francisco Earthquake San Francisco’s Response to the Oakland Firestorm Chronology of San Francisco World War II Events Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965-1969

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.