Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 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.
Great River Fire Department; Long Beach Fire Department (New York) Mount Sinai Fire Department; New York City Fire Department; Oceanic H&L Company No. 1; Plandome Fire Department; Rescue Hook and Ladder Co.1 Haverstraw NY; Richmond Engine Co. 1; Sayville Fire Department; Schenectady Fire Department; Wantagh Fire Department; Yonkers Fire Department
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 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.
On Oct. 19, 1991, a smoldering grass fire that was not completely extinguished reignited and burned out of control in the Oakland and Berkeley hills for days, killing 25 people, injuring 150 ...
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 ...
Berkeley has one of the highest rates of bicycle and pedestrian commuting in the nation. Berkeley is the safest city of its size in California for pedestrians and cyclists, considering the number of injuries per pedestrian and cyclist, rather than per capita. [99] A street closed off into two dead ends by traffic calming barriers.