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The IAFF Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial is a permanent remembrance of IAFF members and emergency medical services personnel who have lost their lives in the line of duty. An annual Fallen Firefighters memorial ceremony is held each year in September in Colorado Springs, Colorado (with the exception of 2020 and 2021 due to the Coronavirus (Covid ...
San Francisco Fire Department; Operational area; Country United States State California City: San Francisco: Agency overview [1]; Established: 12/25/1849-Volunteer Department 03/02/1866-Paid Department
The Twin Peaks Reservoir is the backbone of the AWSS system and is located at the top of San Francisco's Twin Peaks hilltop. It is made up of a 10.5-million-U.S.-gallon (40-million-liter) storage reservoir made out of 6-inch-thick (150 mm) reinforced-concrete slabs. Two 750-US-gallon-per-minute (2,800 L/min) centrifugal pumps deliver fresh ...
California firefighters made significant progress Sunday to tame a wind-driven wildfire that scorched thousands of acres 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Francisco, burned down a home and ...
Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in support of the ban and is expected to do the same during a final vote. Once in effect, the law would give the city’s fire ...
California's largest wildfire so far this year was significantly surrounded Monday after blackening a swath of hilly grasslands between San Francisco Bay and the Central Valley. The Corral Fire ...
After the riots of 1968, an effort to coordinate the response of the fire services, especially minority firefighters, began to merge. In 1969, the IABPFF formed, [ 2 ] a national organization of black fire professionals who felt that active recruitment of youth to jobs in fire service would lead to a solution in fire prevention and end the ...
In 1982, Whitehead was elected as full-time secretary-treasurer of the IAFF, in which role he established a line-item budget, and averted a potential bankruptcy of the union. In 1988, he was instead elected as president of the union, defeating incumbent leader Jack Gannon. [1] [2] He also served as a vice-president of the AFL-CIO. In 2000, he ...