Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Fire Department

== Area Served ==
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (HPNS), formerly the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, California. It was located on 638 acres of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast corner of the city on a peninsula that extends into the San Francisco Bay. It closed permanently in 1994. Originally built in 1870 as a civilian shipyard, at the start of World War II the Navy recognized the need for greatly increased naval shipbuilding and repair facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in 1940 acquired the property from the private owners, naming it Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The main naval base in the area at the time was at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, but the continuous silting in the area made Mare Island only suitable for relatively shallow-draft ships. 
== Department Profile ==
Structure firefighting, shipboard firefighting, emergency medical services, fire prevention and inspection for Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was provided by the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Fire Department, comprised of civilian career firefighters.
== History ==
Originally, Hunters Point was a commercial shipyard established in 1870, consisting of two graving docks. It was purchased and built up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century by the Union Iron Works company, later owned by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company and named Hunters Point Drydocks, located at Potrero Point. Known as "The World's Greatest Shipping Yard", President Theodore Roosevelt trusted his Great White Fleet of battleships to be serviced at Hunters Point in 1907 according to historical records. The shipyard was purchased by the US Navy in 1940, a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It began operations the next year as the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, and operated until 1974 when it was deactivated and renamed Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Used commercially for a time, in 1986 it was taken over by the Navy again as the home port of the USS Missouri battlegroup, under the name Treasure Island Naval Station Hunters Point Annex. The base was classified as 'redundant' as part of the Base Realignment and Closure effort in 1991, and was closed permanently in 1994. Since then the site has been part of a superfund cleanup effort to remediate the leftovers of decades of industrial and radiological use. Parcels have been sold off as they were cleaned up, mostly for condominium development.
== Apparatus ==
: 1988 Pierce Arrow (1000/750/100) (SN#E4158-08) (Ex-Engine 3)
: 1978 Seagrave MB-23098 (1000/500/30) (SN#H-95208) (Ex-Reserve Engine 3) 
Category:Defunct fire departments of San Francisco County
Category:Defunct US Navy Fire Departments
Category:Defunct Military Fire Departments (California)
Category:Former Military operators of Pierce apparatus
Category:Former operators of Seagrave apparatus