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The Oakland Fire Department was initially started in the 1860s as a volunteer fire department and was officially formed on March 13, 1869, when its first fire station was built. [5] In 1908 the department bought their first motorized fire engine and in the 1920s, the department became one of the first in the nation to hire African American ...
Museum of the City of SF—San Francisco Fire Department Responses to the Oakland Fire; 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
Oakland Long Wharf bought by Central Pacific Railroad. 1869 Railway begins operating. [6] Lake Merritt Wild-Fowl Sanctuary [6] and Oakland Fire Department established. Oakland Long Wharf becomes the western terminus of the First transcontinental railroad. [7] 1871 – Mills Seminary relocates to Oakland. 1872 Brooklyn becomes part of Oakland.
Video released by the Oakland Fire Department on social media platform X earlier Friday showed firefighters hosing down a smoldering front lawn and flames showing from the roof of a home.
The history of Oakland, a city in the county of Alameda, California, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement by Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon in the 19th century. The area now known as Oakland had seen human occupation for thousands of years, but significant growth in the settlements that are now incorporated into ...
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 ...
Marin County Fire Department; Oakland Fire Department; Orange City Fire Department; Orange County Fire Authority; Presidio Fire Department; Riverside Fire Department; Sacramento Fire Department; San Bernardino County Fire Department; San Diego Fire-Rescue Department; San Francisco Fire Department; San Jose Fire Department; San Luis Obispo ...
A Bloomingdale man is charged with setting fire to two Optimum service vans at the phone company's store in Oakland, authorities said.