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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 East Bay Hills Fire: A Multi-Agency Review of the October 1991 Fire in the Oakland/Berkeley Hills. East Bay Hills Fire Operations Review Group, State of California, Governor's Office of Emergency Services, February 27, 1992; The East Bay Hills Fire: Oakland-Berkeley, California Archived May 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, U.S. Fire ...
James J. Kenney (1869 – March 23, 1916) was the first fire chief in the city of Berkeley, California. He oversaw the mechanization of the department in 1914, the first in the United States west of Mississippi .
Shortly after Berkeley was incorporated in 1878, a town marshal and constables were elected to provide law enforcement. August Vollmer had been the town marshal since 1905, and was appointed to be the first chief of police in 1909. [1]
The Berkeley Police Department was in turmoil Thursday following the leak of text messages that allegedly show the president of the police officers union making racially charged remarks and ...
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 ...
A man was arrested in connection with a firebombing attack on a UC Berkeley police vehicle and three other arson attacks on campus, authorities said.
Category: Government of Berkeley, California. ... Berkeley Fire Department; M. Malcolm X Day This page was last edited on 30 December 2013, at 21:29 ...