Day 46 – SF earthquake and fire follow-up

Submitted by Carl Breckenridge

Two weeks ago, on April 18 specifically, we ran an account for the centenary of the Great SF earthquake here on the pages of This is Reno. An investigation or two is normal, expected and welcome, but when you extract a piece of ten “What if?” and how you do?” As he did this, I have to think I haven’t seen the story enough.

Most of the questions about this account were, “What did San Francisco do to mitigate this devastation from happening again?” Just question …

Most of the damage to the city was caused by the fires, and the fire burned unabated by the lack of water that could be fought. To this end, within a few years after the earthquake, the water network will be rebuilt.

Tanks are built – large cabinets. Johns Street and the Ashbury Reservoir are in the range of half a million gallons. And they take advantage of the city’s terrain – they are both at least more than three hundred feet above the taps they serve. They don’t rely on pumps, gravity boosts its flow in style.

Both tanks are fed by the massive Twin Peaks Reservoir – ten and a half million gallons, approximately 800 feet above the bay. Well, how do we get seawater to this height? If you’ve sat at Buena Vista Cafe enjoying a great breakfast and Irish coffee, or have taken a tour of the Maritime Museum or Hyde Street Pier, you have seen the pumping station and you don’t know it.

The San Francisco pumping station feeds the Twin Peaks reservoir. Photo: Carl Breckenridge

In a small building that was built in San Francisco-style Mission Architecture, overlooking the left in the green vegetation of Fort Mason just behind the Beltline train tunnel, are huge kettles to create steam to divert the massive generator, with the “New York Electricity Company Schenectady” On its huge plate is brass. The firefighter who ran the station for many years and befriended him for years – now retired – proudly polished that the brass per week so that almost no one could see him, to get to the building since 9/11 had been severely curtailed (ornate letters the “fire department pump station in San Francisco No. 2 “Unfortunately at the time. Indoor photography of the building was banned.)

Electricity powers the massive Stone-Webster pump that raises seawater 765 feet high into the Twin Peaks tank (the system does not rely on energy from PG&E). The pressure of the water weight in the pipes is so great that no human operated valve can tip over, so the water pressure itself is used, with a small handle the size of a light turn switch directed to the plumbing in order to make the huge valve under the building’s floor open or closed.

Everything in the small building is huge – valve handles, the electric knife – switches, a ten-foot-tall plate of round copper counters, controls for the three massive boilers. The visitor will not be surprised to see Captain Nemo of Nautilus Jules Furnace walk into the main room of the station. Old timers remember a building smoke pile in the southwest corner of the building – this was removed when a diesel generator was inserted to generate the energy needed to raise water to Twin Peaks. But to satisfy fundamentalists like me the 1909 “look” interior was preserved.

Sea water faucet in San Francisco. Photo: Carl Breckenridge

Well, we have tanks and a way to keep them full (water is transported into the system weekly to prevent sediment formation). But it is sea water, i.e. salt water. The last thing the engineer wants in the water system is salt.

Therefore – water taps that distribute water are distinguished from this system. The next time you are in The City, if you see a tap with a black, blue, or red cap on it in the seawater system, it takes its water from the Ashbury or Jones Street tanks. Firefighters will use it, but after the fire, they need to pump fresh water through their device system to remove salt residue.

This Renault reader may have extended to another major component of preparedness for the city after the earthquake – the tanks, which are often seen in the more remote parts of the city – the Richmond and sunset regions. Groundwater tanks – fresh or salt – are laid out for firefighters by a brick circle around the intersection, which tells firefighters that water is available for dredging – if their devices contain traction equipment like most of them – in the absence of a nearby tap or involved in a fire.

Underground tank in San Francisco. Photo: Carl Breckenridge

The cover is over a secondary tank made of wood, so that in the event of a complete failure of the usual system, a street drill rig can be used to put traction equipment directly into the tank.

But the pride of the fire service is the phoenix – a nineteenth-century extinguishing boat that firefighters proudly use to welcome other boats at the SF port – cruise ships and sailing ships of all flags – on their opening visits to the bay. But – with her relatively new sister, Saint Francis – she serves Yeoman in fire protection, from the old docks lining the Embarcadero and in increasing the water pressure available to firefighters, by attaching their hoses to many fireboat connections along the waterfront.

These links are perfectly visible in the Marina Green area, and you can have fun watching the firefighters’ exercises on land caravans on the ground with motor boats. In major fires – like a two-day apartment under construction near a giant baseball park – AT&T? inspiration? – I assume that the boats were operating and connecting the system and that the generators and pumps at Station 2 were hot and ready.

The city learned a lot in 1906 and its hills and topography are well prepared. Now, if they can prevent another earthquake …

Captain Breckenridge discovered a warning warning on the plate of his laptop, thus announcing MayDay tomorrow, dropping the gear and requesting a quick pass to the Great Basin Factory runway in Sparks, winding the emergency device …

Senior Officer Judy is now responsible for this column here and rumors say she will take you all to Coney Island, not the bar with the great Beacons and Ravioli, but the turn of the century park across the Lincoln Highway. So get the bathing clothes and the rubber duck, but, be safe, huh?

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Carl Breckenridge is slowly going nuts. So he decided to help this is Renault by writing a daily column out of his mind throughout the closing of the coronavirus. Carl grew up in the valley and has stories from the region dating back to 1945. He has written 32 years locally and loves to wake up with friends … Now he sits six feet away.

Day 46 – SF earthquake and fire follow-up

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Day 34 – SF earthquake

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Day 33 – Pizza!

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Day 31 – Sacramento

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Day 30 – pancakes

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Day 29 – Wells Trench Avenue

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Day 28 – Easter

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Day 23 – Bruce Thompson’s return

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