The San Francisco call., 1910-01-15
FIRE PROTECTION
GREATLY IMPROVED
Mission Promotion Committee
Secures Better Service
for District

In report to the Mission promotion
association on what has been accom-
plished through its efforts during the
year 1909, the committee on water sup
ply for domestic use and fire purposes
of the association makes showing OF
unusual progress.
For the protection of the Ingleside,
Lakeview, sunnyside and Excelsior
homestead districts, an engine house
was procured at San Jose and Ocean
avenues during 1906 and in the course
OF the year just past light combination
chemicals and hose wagons were in
stalled in these quarters as well as In
engine company 33 located at Broad
and Plymouth avenues in the Ocean
View section.
FIRE HOUSES IMPROVED
An addition to the engine house at
Seventeenth and Division streets is now
being built In order to provide for a
monitor battery for the protection OF
the factory and business districts of the
Mission. In the western and southern
portions of the mission protection VIII
be afforded by engine company 1S.
which will be quartered in the house
now being erected at Duncan and
Church streets, for which an appro-
priation of $1,000 was obtained.
The Eureka valley and Ashbury
heights district is afforded protection
by the firehouse at Ashbury and Car
mel streets, for which the committee
obtained an appropriation of $1,000.
In the Excelsior homestead section the
committee recommended that a lot be
purchased at Brazil avenue near Athens
street, and the recommendation was ap-
proved by Fire Chief Shaughnessy. The
land has been purchased by the city
and chemical engine will be insta He'd
on the site as soon chemical engine
house l3 has been completed. At San
Bruno avenue and Silliman street. also,
lot has been purchased and engine
house AZ will be built thereon as soon
as an appropriation is made for the
purpose by the board of supervisors.
BIG APPROPRIATION
The latest success of the committee
is the securing of an appropriation TO
repair the dorniitory of engine company
13 at Valencia and Twenty fifth streets.
The committee also secured an appro-
priation of $1s,6T5 to construct COM
bfnation chemical engine and hose cart
building at Noe and Twenty second
streets, particularly for the protection
of the Liberty hill section between
Eighteenth and Twenty-second, Church
and Castro streets
The committee, in it's report which
will be submitted to the association at
Monday evenings meeting, acknowl-
edges the active and consistent support
given by p. II. Shaughnessy, chief engi-
neer of the San Francisco fire depart
ment.
IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED
Among the projects which the COM
mittee pledges itself to work for during
the year 1910 are the securing of ade-
quate fire protection for the Peralta
heights and vicinity district and for
the Louis and Levy tracts, recently ap-
portioned into lots, which are adjacent
to the Excelsior homestead district
east of the Mission road and south of
Russia avenue. Recommendations are
made to the association, also, that Po-
trero avenue, Folsom and Eighteenth
streets be repaired at once, SO that fire
apparatus may more safely and expe-
ditiously travel to fires liable to occur
in these vicinities. A recommendation
is also made that Fifteenth avenue
South be repaired at once, SO that the
district contiguous to San Bruno and
Railroad avenues may be afforded pro-
lection. The report alleges that the
main OF the Spring Valley water COM
pany on Fifteenth avenue is uncov-
cred and exposed to breakage by We
hicles passing over this thoroughfare.