Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Fire Department

A ladder truck in front of Ingleside Station #15, near Holloway. Photo: Local Buzz

SFFD Vetoes ‘Slow Street’ on Holloway

By Roger Rudick | May 7, 2020 | No Comments

Apparently, the San Francisco Fire Department can't navigate a truck around a traffic cone

An SFFD truck parked on a bike lane in Mission Bay. Photo taken around noon on Dec. 15, 2017, by Streetsblog/Rudick

Firefighters Try to Hose Vision Zero

By Roger Rudick | Feb 8, 2018 | 15 Comments

Safe-streets advocates were outraged today to read that some San Francisco firefighters are still vying to veto Vision Zero projects. According to a story in yesterday’s SF Examiner, Firefighters Local 798 sent a questionnaire to all the mayoral candidates which included: “Do you support giving the SFFD Fire Marshall more discretion and the ability to reject any Vision Zero […]