There is more to the story that I wrote about last night (link). In this last budget cycle, the FD asked for $14 million to purchase rigs for the fleet…they got $300k. You and I both know that $300k doesn’t ...
Read More »S.F. unable to help fight wildfire near L.A.
150,000 acres burn in Los Angeles and San Fransisco is unable to help? Read below. For the first time in memory, San Francisco had to say “no” last week when the state put out a call for help to fight ...
Read More »Two Big Fires in San Francisco
San Francisco firefighters found themselves battling two mutli-alarm fires today. One involving four apartment buildings in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and another involving several warehouses in the Bayview District. The Bayview fire went to four alarms while the Haight-Ashbury fire went ...
Read More »4-Alarm Fire Rages At South San Francisco Food Factory
From CBS5.com Firefighters continued to battle a four-alarm structure fire at the Columbus Food manufacturing plant in South San Francisco Thursday morning. The fire was first was reported at a warehouse at 465 Cabot Road just after 2 a.m., the ...
Read More »Rolling Brownouts, Firehouse Roulette, Firehouse Closures, Layoffs…
Call it what you will, but I call it poor management. The three highest priorities in any jurisdiction should be: Public Safety Education Refuse Collection Those are in no particular order. Those are the necessities. PERIOD. Over the last 5 ...
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