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Download or read book Firehouse Food written by George Dolese and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firefighters are famous for their great food and it's no wonder since they cook their own meals seven days a week! "Firehouse Food" showcases the brave denizens of the firehouse and more than 100 of their best recipes. 80 photos.
Download or read book Fighting Fire written by Caroline Paul and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline Paul, one of the first women in the San Francisco Fire Department, writes about what it's like to be a firefighter: the daily routine of the fire house, and the dangers and thrills of risking one's life fighting this elemental force. In remarkably gripping prose she shows readers what life is like for a woman in what has traditionally been a man's world. Caroline was named one of "People" magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1998. Martin's Press.
Book Synopsis San Francisco Fire Department by : John Garvey
Download or read book San Francisco Fire Department written by John Garvey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In San Francisco, history is as close as the sound of the fire engines and trucks racing by, sirens wailing. The San Francisco Fire Department took shape, as did the city, from the ashes and embers of the Great Fire of 1906. In the tumultuous seaport full of those seeking California's newly found gold, volunteer fire companies had to adapt to a teeming city full of canvas tents, wood shacks, kerosene lanterns, ocean breezes, and hilly winding streets. From a force that initially pulled hand-operated pumps and competed to be the first at a fire, traveling in horse-drawn equipment, the department has grown from a volunteer contingent of a few hundred to a company 1,800 strong and equipped to protect a city of 49 square miles, surrounded on three sides by salt water. The historic photographs of this volume document the establishment of the volunteer department on Christmas Eve 1849 and the inception of the paid force in 1866, as well as such colorful characters as Lily Hitchcock Coit, a belle who battled many a blaze with the volunteers and a portion of whose estate went to build the 210-foot Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. Striking images, many never before published, illustrate how the fire department was affected not only by the well-known inferno of 1906 but by the six blazes that leveled the waterfront in the 1850s and a number of other fires throughout the city's history.
Book Synopsis Everything Took Time by : Bill Koenig
Download or read book Everything Took Time written by Bill Koenig and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8.5 x 11 Hardcover with Dust Jacket256 pages including 32 color pagesAt 5:12 on the morning of April 18, 1906, a mild foreshock shook San Francisco. Twenty-five seconds later, the Great Earthquake, lasting almost a minute, devastated the City. In San Francisco, this historic event is more often referred to as the Great Fire.Within the first hours, 52 fires spread across the City. The quake destroyed the central fire alarm and telephone systems; thus, no alarms sounded to the 584 members of the Fire Department. The department was without any means of communication; every company was on its own.The engine companies responded to visible fires but discovered the quake had broken most of the water mains. As firefighters searched desperately for working hydrants, small-unchecked building fires merged into large, uncontrolled fires. Before long, the conflagration engulfed 4.7 square miles of the City.Despite these setbacks and challenges, the San Francisco Fire Department fought on, day and night until, late in the evening on April 20th, they extinguished the fire and saved the City.Everything Took Time transports you to those three eventful days in April 1906 to experience the heroic battle of the San Francisco firefighters. Author Bill Koenig gives the events immediacy citing contemporary newspaper articles and takes you behind the scenes with previously unpublished officers' reports. Leave your 21st-century viewpoints behind and read how the department managed a disaster of this magnitude without the tools we have today.
Download or read book Working Fire written by George Hall and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Fire written by Robert Graysmith and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer, told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco. When San Francisco Daily Morning Call reporter Mark Twain met Tom Sawyer in 1863, he was seeking a subject for his first novel. He learned that Sawyer was a volunteer firefighter, local hero, and a former “Torch Boy,” racing ahead of hand-drawn fire engines at night carrying torches to light the way. When a mysterious serial arsonist known as “The Lightkeeper” was in the process of burning San Francisco to the ground, Sawyer played a key role in stopping him, helping to contain what is now considered the most disastrous and costly series of fires ever experienced by an American metropolis. By chronicling how Sawyer took it upon himself to investigate, expose, and stop the arsonist, Black Fire details Sawyer’s remarkable life and illustrates why Twain would later feel compelled to name his iconic character after him when writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. A vivid portrayal of the gritty, corrupt, and violent world of the Gold Rush-era West, Black Fire is the most vibrant and thorough account of Sawyer’s relationship with Mark Twain, and of the devastating fires that baptized San Francisco.
Author :San Francisco (Calif.). Office of the Controller. City Services Auditor Division Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :10 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (858 download)
Book Synopsis San Francisco Fire Department by : San Francisco (Calif.). Office of the Controller. City Services Auditor Division
Download or read book San Francisco Fire Department written by San Francisco (Calif.). Office of the Controller. City Services Auditor Division and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disaster! written by Dan Kurzman and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The George Polk Memorial Award-winning historian investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, bringing to life this horrible natural disaster--registering 8.3 on the Richter scale--and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble killing ten thousand people. Reprint.
Book Synopsis Cause for Alarm by : Amy S. Greenberg
Download or read book Cause for Alarm written by Amy S. Greenberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though central to the social, political, and cultural life of the nineteenth-century city, the urban volunteer fire department has nevertheless been largely ignored by historians. Redressing this neglect, Amy Greenberg reveals the meaning of this central institution by comparing the fire departments of Baltimore, St. Louis, and San Francisco from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Volunteer fire companies protected highly flammable cities from fire and provided many men with friendship, brotherhood, and a way to prove their civic virtue. While other scholars have claimed that fire companies were primarily working class, Greenberg shows that they were actually mixed social groups: merchants and working men, immigrants and native-born--all found a common identity as firemen. Cause for Alarm presents a new vision of urban culture, one defined not by class but by gender. Volunteer firefighting united men in a shared masculine celebration of strength and bravery, skill and appearance. In an otherwise alienating environment, fire companies provided men from all walks of life with status, community, and an outlet for competition, which sometimes even led to elaborate brawls. While this culture was fully respected in the early nineteenth century, changing social norms eventually demonized the firemen's vision of masculinity. Greenberg assesses the legitimacy of accusations of violence and political corruption against the firemen in each city, and places the municipalization of firefighting in the context of urban social change, new ideals of citizenship, the rapid spread of fire insurance, and new firefighting technologies. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Entrapment in Garage Kills One Firefighter; San Francisco, California by :
Download or read book Entrapment in Garage Kills One Firefighter; San Francisco, California written by and published by FEMA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Legal Considerations for Fire and Emergency Services, 3rd Edition by : J. Curtis Varone
Download or read book Legal Considerations for Fire and Emergency Services, 3rd Edition written by J. Curtis Varone and published by Fire Engineering Books. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of Legal Considerations for Fire & Emergency Services is a reader-friendly guide to the challenging legal issues that firefighters and emergency service personnel encounter. Written by J. Curtis Varone, a practicing attorney as well as an experienced firefighter, this book explores such key topics as fire department liability, search and seizure, sovereign immunity, overtime laws, collective bargaining, OSHA compliance, workers’ compensation, physical abilities testing, medical examinations, drug testing, discrimination, and sexual harassment. It is a perfect textbook for any course on fire service law as well as an indispensable desk reference for day-to-day fire department administration. Features of the new 3rd Edition: • Updated cases on several topics including residency requirements, employment discrimination, and more • Expanded treatment of hot topics such as digital imagery, social media, and electronic surveillance • Meets the latest requirements for FESHE’s Legal Aspects of the Fire Service curriculum • Many new photos and graphics to help connect cases to day-to-day issues in the fire service • Coverage of recent changes to search and seizure law, use of digital photos and social media by emergency personnel, and fire department liability
Book Synopsis San Francisco Fire Department by : John Garvey
Download or read book San Francisco Fire Department written by John Garvey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In San Francisco, history is as close as the sound of the fire engines and trucks racing by, sirens wailing. The San Francisco Fire Department took shape, as did the city, from the ashes and embers of the Great Fire of 1906. In the tumultuous seaport full of those seeking California's newly found gold, volunteer fire companies had to adapt to a teeming city full of canvas tents, wood shacks, kerosene lanterns, ocean breezes, and hilly winding streets. From a force that initially pulled hand-operated pumps and competed to be the first at a fire, traveling in horse-drawn equipment, the department has grown from a volunteer contingent of a few hundred to a company 1,800 strong and equipped to protect a city of 49 square miles, surrounded on three sides by salt water. The historic photographs of this volume document the establishment of the volunteer department on Christmas Eve 1849 and the inception of the paid force in 1866, as well as such colorful characters as Lily Hitchcock Coit, a belle who battled many a blaze with the volunteers and a portion of whose estate went to build the 210-foot Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. Striking images, many never before published, illustrate how the fire department was affected not only by the well-known inferno of 1906 but by the six blazes that leveled the waterfront in the 1850s and a number of other fires throughout the city's history.
Book Synopsis San Francisco Fire Department Historical Yearbook 2015 by : San Francisco Fire Department
Download or read book San Francisco Fire Department Historical Yearbook 2015 written by San Francisco Fire Department and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DetailsThe San Francisco Firefighters Union Local 798 and M.T. Publishing, Inc. have joining forces to create a new full color pictorial- style history/yearbook paying tribute to the men and women of the Department. This hardcover book includes action, historical and firehouse images as well as a brief history of the department. Only a limited number of books have been printed. Do not delay in ordering yours. This book is a 9" x 12" coffee table edition with deluxe hardbound cover and high-gloss, double coated paper for superior photo reproduction. 152 all color pages, indexed.
Book Synopsis Reports on an Auxilary Water Supply System for Fire Protection for San Francisco, California by : San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Public Works
Download or read book Reports on an Auxilary Water Supply System for Fire Protection for San Francisco, California written by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis San Francisco is Burning by : Dennis Smith
Download or read book San Francisco is Burning written by Dennis Smith and published by Plume. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former New York City firefighter, Smith details the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco and reveals little known details through the stories of those who lived through the terrible days.
Book Synopsis Report of the Board of Fire Commissioners and Chief Engineer of the San Francisco Paid Fire Department by : San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Fire Commissioners
Download or read book Report of the Board of Fire Commissioners and Chief Engineer of the San Francisco Paid Fire Department written by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Fire Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Board of Fire Commissioners, Chief Engineer and Fire Alarm Superintendent of the San Francisco Fire Department; 1895 by : San Francisco (Calif ) Fire Dept
Download or read book Report of the Board of Fire Commissioners, Chief Engineer and Fire Alarm Superintendent of the San Francisco Fire Department; 1895 written by San Francisco (Calif ) Fire Dept and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
