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Tag: Fire House

  • Underwriters Fire Patrol

    147 Natoma SOMA/Financial District According to the History Department of the SFFD: On May 24, 1875, the City’s insurance companies joined together to organize and fund the Underwriters Fire Patrol.  The UFP was like a fire department; it had its own firehouses, alarm system and firemen whose only task was salvage practices.  The patrol worked…