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On October 22, 1904 the Berkeley City Hall was destroyed by a fire and shortly thereafter a paid department was formed. [8] In 1914, the Berkeley Fire Department became the first department west of the Mississippi to be fully motorized. [9] In 1923, over 600 homes and businesses were destroyed by the 1923 Berkeley, California fire. [10]
The official name of this incident by Cal Fire is the Tunnel Fire. [3] It is also commonly referred to as the Oakland Hills firestorm or the East Bay Hills fire. The fire ultimately killed 25 people and injured 150 others. The 1,520 acres (620 ha) destroyed included 2,843 single-family dwellings and 437 apartment and condominium units.
The following month, the city of Berkeley decided to create a paid, professional fire department and James Kenney was chosen as its first fire chief. Under Kenney's leadership, the department was mechanized by 1914, the first west of the Mississippi, and Berkeley was the second fire department in the United States to adopt the two platoon ...
Responding agencies include Pine Ridge Fire Department, C&B Fire Department, Central Berkeley Fire Department, Caromi Fire, Summerville Fire, Berkeley County EMS, and Berkeley County Sheriff’s ...
The Berkeley Fire Department responded to the complex and notified the University of California Police Department that it was “attempting life-saving measures” on the student, Gilmore said. By ...
The 1923 Berkeley, California, fire was a conflagration that consumed some 640 structures, including 584 houses in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, California, on September 17, 1923.
Berkeley Fire Department alerted campus police that they were "attempting life-saving measures" on the student, the statement said. Soon after, police pronounced him dead.
This is a list of fire departments in Pennsylvania organized by county. ... Berkeley Hills VFD, Station 247 [103] Perrysville VFD, Station 248;