For over 150 years, brave firefighters have battled to preserve the lives and property of the citizens of Oakland. Beginning in 1853, volunteer engine and hook and ladder companies organized and the Oakland Fire Department formed in 1869. Until 1922, teams of magnificent horses pulled steamers belching black smoke and embers, with firemen holding on for dear life. These gallant fire horses were as much firefighters as the rugged men of Oakland who extinguished blazes with leather hoses and brass nozzles. After waging an internal battle of racial integration a 35-year struggle that began in 1920 the Oakland Fire Department became one of the first in the nation to hire women firefighters beginning in 1980.
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Author Geoffrey Hunter, a captain in the Oakland Fire Department, has searched for the best and most dramatic images to illuminate this inspiring and authoritative history of the Oakland Fire Department, from the days of horse-drawn carts on dusty downtown streets, to the modern era of gleaming high-rise buildings and thermal imaging cameras.
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The book is very interesting. It came very quick. I gave this to a young man who was just hired at the Oakland Fire Department so that he would have some history of his new place of employment.
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The Oakland Fire Department began with the volunteer fire companies that dotted the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in the mid-1800s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Port of Oakland, San Francisco, Courtesy of the Oakland Tribune, West Oakland, Courtesy of the Oakland Library, East Oakland, Lake Merritt, Caldecott Tunnel, Chief Lutkey, Fish Ranch Road Fire, Courtesy of Danny Barlogio, Oakland Army Base New!
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The Oakland Fire Department began with the volunteer fire companies that dotted the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in the mid-1800s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Port of Oakland, San Francisco, Courtesy of the Oakland Tribune, West Oakland, Courtesy of the Oakland Library, East Oakland, Lake Merritt, Caldecott Tunnel, Chief Lutkey, Fish Ranch Road Fire, Courtesy of Danny Barlogio, Oakland Army Base New!
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- Thanksgiving Day by Gail Gibbons on page 101
- American Red Cross by Turner Publishing on page 95
- Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos that Reshaped America by Peter Hoffer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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