San Francisco Fire Department

[Aaronw]

Fageol tank wagon.

 

Fageol was another SF Bay Area based truck builder. The company went bankrupt in during the depression and its assets were purchased by what later became Peterbilt.

 

 

[Aaronw]

SF has its own shop for building fire equipment. This is a department built horsedrawn Gorter monitor, many of these were later remounted on early motorized apparatus.

 

 

[Aaronw]

One of the early hand pumpers named for a well known local character Emperor Norton.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton

 

 

[Aaronw]

Mack hose tender / high pressure battery. It carries a large quantity of 5" hose in the bed. Originally ordered as a pumper and later converted into a hose tender by the department shops. This truck was still in service in 1989 and was used during the Loma Prieta earthquake.

[DaveYoung]

Awesome pics! Love seeing these rigs and the history associated with them.

[Aaronw]

Mack city service truck

 

 

[Aaronw]

1928 Kleiber 75 foot water tower. This water tower was originally built as a horse drawn unit in 1902. It remained in service as a special call apparatus into the 1970s.

 

 

 

 

[Aaronw]

It still works too.

 

 

[Aaronw]

1927 Mack with a 35 foot Gorter water tower. The SFFD still has two of these smaller Mack water towers which remained in use until 1971. 

 

 

 

[Aaronw]

1928 Ahrens Fox pumper

 

 

[wdho]

The very stealth Arson unit of SFFD

[wdho]

36 engine from yesterdays 2nd alarm, in front of fire building

[wdho]

3 engine up on the rack at Central Shops

[Guest]

 

San Francisco FD E43

 

Shot this while they were attending LAFD FF Glenn Allen's funeral in Feb. '11.

[Aaronw]

1914 American LaFrance High Pressure Battery / Hose tender

 

 

[Aaronw]

1940s American LaFrance high pressure battery / hose tender

 

 

[Aaronw]

Seagrave Rescue truck

These carried a small pump and tank in addition to rescue tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Aaronw]

1960 American LaFrance Turbo Chief, one of 3(?) built with a turbine engine. Converted to a conventional gasoline engine after only a few years of service. The museum put the original chrome stack back on for appearances, but as far as I know it is still running the gas engine, not the turbine. 

 

 

[Aaronw]

1965 Ford Chief's car

 

 

[Aaronw]

Ex SFFD Kenworth Steeldraulics pumper. This engine was transferred to the San Francisco Water Department for hydrant testing.