[Fireboat fighting a fire on a pier of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge]

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Local identifier: AAD-2147
Title: [Fireboat fighting a fire on a pier of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge]
Date: 1936 Apr. 6
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Bridges-Bay-Disasters
On back: "ACME NEWSPICTURES SAN FRANCISCO BUREAU SF 11476. FIREBOATS BATTLE FLAMING BRIDGE FIRE - A spectacular fire that started from a white hot rivet dropped on creosote soaked piling forced twelve workmen on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, longest in the world, to jump into San Francisco Bay but did little actual damage to the great span. It was the bridge's first fire, and likely to be its last, bridge officials said, inasmuch as the bridge is constructed entirely of steel. Photo shows a fireboat battling the blaze while dense clouds of smoke roll from the bridge pier fender. (BUREAUS) 4-6-36".
"Acme Newspictures Inc."
Negative #10031
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Fireboats
Fires--California
Bibliographic Number: .b10269691
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:141965