San Francisco Guardian Fireboat No 2
by Bonnie Follett
Title
San Francisco Guardian Fireboat No 2
Artist
Bonnie Follett
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
San Francisco Guardian Fireboat No 2 is a photograph of a fireboat moored on the San Francisco waterfront at SFFD's station 35. It was built in 1951 and first served in Vancouver, B.C. Canada before coming to San Francisco.
The Guardian was a gift to the people of San Francisco from two anonymous and very generous donors from the Marina district who gave $300,000 towards the purchase of the vessel shortly after the earthquake of October 17, 1989. It was their way of saying "thank you" for a job well done by the Phoenix, which pumped water from the St. Francis Yacht Harbor into the S.F.F.D.'s Portable Water System to the conflagration at Beach and Divisadero Streets. Without the water supplied by the Phoenix, many more Marina residents would have lost their homes. Guardian, a fine boat with exceptional firefighting capacity, and had previously served as a fireboat for the city of Vancouver, B.C. She had been declared surplus and was in the hands of a salvage dealer waiting to be dismantled and sold for scrap. Time was running out, but fortunately through the interest and perseverance of Fire Commissioner Sharon Bretz, the way was quickly cleared for her purchase.
See more info on this boat at: http://guardiansofthecity.org/sffd/fireboats/guardian.html
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September 15th, 2016
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