San Francisco Fire Department is sending 18 firefighters on one task force of four type-6 fire engines, one type-1 fire engine and one supervisor. This task force of 18 SFFD firefighters is going to the Thompson fire in Northern California on an immediate need request under the California mutual aid system. @cal_oes | San Francisco Fire Department

The San Francisco Fire Department was proud to host FIRESCOPE this week in San Francisco. FIRESCOPE is an organization that was developed to enhance the ability of firefighting agencies to allocate and manage fire suppression resources in California. This group of dedicated public servants from across California meets regularly to ensure that the needs of their individual communities and the capabilities of each community’s resources are sufficient to provide safety responses when needed. Repres

San Francisco Fire Department utilizes ladders on structure fires daily in San Francisco, which means we train daily on these ladders, whether wooden ground ladders or aerial ladders we train, so we are better prepared for you when you need us. | San Francisco Fire Department

At 4:33pm this afternoon San Francisco Fire Department responded to the Shell Gas station, located at the corner or 16th Street and Guerrero, in the Mission District A Working Fire was declared within a few moments of arrival flowing out of a massive hole in the ground. A Construction excavator hit one of the tanks creating a spark causing the underground exposed tank to catch fire. We were able to evacuate the building next-door to the incident immediately. Placing those occupants in a safe loc