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The Alameda County Fire Department (ACFD) provides all-risk emergency services to the unincorporated areas of Alameda County, California (excluding Fairview), the cities of San Leandro, Dublin, Newark, Union City and Emeryville, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. With 28 fire stations and ...
Ruins of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ferry pier, 2015 1948 map of Ferry Point, labeled here as Point Richmond. Ferry Point is a cape on the San Francisco Bay in western Richmond, California, United States. Once the Northern California terminal for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the area has been developed as a regional ...
Central Pacific ferry El Capitan was the largest ferry on San Francisco Bay when built in 1868. [5] Ferry Berkeley (served 1898–1958) at the San Diego Maritime Museum. The first railroad ferries on San Francisco Bay were established by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad and the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad (SF&A), which were taken over by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in 1870 ...
The Los Angeles Fire Department on the scene of a fire in the Bradbury Building, Downtown Los Angeles in 1947 The Newport Beach Fire Department's Engine 63 at the training facility in Newport Beach Fire Station#1 of the Riverside Fire Department, circa 1910, at the corner of 8th and Lime Streets (8th Street is now University Avenue) The San Francisco Fire Department's Fireboat Guardian stands ...
The Santa Fe's original Northern California terminal was Ferry Point. Construction of a high-quality depot was one of the conditions set forth by the city for the ATSF to build through Oakland. [3] It opened on May 16, 1904. [3] Passenger service was cut back to Richmond after June 15, 1958, ending service at the station. [4]
In May 1933, an explosion and the ensuing fire destroyed the station building, 500 yards (460 m) of pier, the ferry Peralta, and 14 cars. [12] [15] The cause of the fire remains a mystery. [9] The Key System received a $1.1-million insurance settlement for the disaster ($25.9 million in 2023 adjusted for inflation). [9]
In October 2023, following a fire at a different battery plant owned by another company, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill mandating battery storage facilities to implement safety and ...
In 2001 the Fire Department had commissioned a vessel named the Big Jim LeMoine, an older style fireboat, with an open cockpit, not well suited to countering chemical threats. [6] In September, 2012, when the Deanna Jo was ordered, Action Alameda News reported that Alameda had recently relied on San Francisco 's Phoenix because Alameda's ...