. The Exempt firemen of San Francisco; their unique and gallant record. o. 5 wasorganized in November, 1892. Theoriginal members of the company wereP. Fleming, engineer; T. Arnold, driver;A. Flynn, hoseman ; and E. Ward,steward. It was formerly located at Pa-cific and Leavenworth streets, and thenmoved to Stockton street, between Green-wich and Lombard streets, and finally toits present location at 627 captain of the company is W. , who was born in Pittsburg, Pa.,November 16, 1848, and came to Cali-fornia as a child. He joined the fire de-partment as truckman in Truck No
. The Exempt firemen of San Francisco; their unique and gallant record. o. 5 wasorganized in November, 1892. Theoriginal members of the company wereP. Fleming, engineer; T. Arnold, driver;A. Flynn, hoseman ; and E. Ward,steward. It was formerly located at Pa-cific and Leavenworth streets, and thenmoved to Stockton street, between Green-wich and Lombard streets, and finally toits present location at 627 captain of the company is W. , who was born in Pittsburg, Pa.,November 16, 1848, and came to Cali-fornia as a child. He joined the fire de-partment as truckman in Truck No. 3 in1880, and after seven or eight years ser-vice resigned to take a position in thesheriffs oftke. In February, 1896, here-joined the department as hoseman inEngine No. 24, and after several transferswas finally promoted captain of ChemicalEngine Company No. 5. Captain Gal-latin has to his credit the feat of helpingto rescue a woman from a fire in BartlettAlley, with Battalion Chief Wills. The company has a praiseworthy record andabout two years ago, together with. CAPT. W. E. GALLATIN Chemical Engine Company No. 3, carriedout five Chinamen from a burning build-ing on Commercial street. Second Assist-ant Chief Shaughnessy and Captain
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