try City Hall
LMFAO... I ve always heard Van Buren was the place. Don t know where else you can look.
Ask Amare Stoudemire
Sheriff Joe has arrested them.
Van buren by the airport
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
San Francisco fire of 1906? -
What time specifically did the fire start?
It would have been very soon after the earthquake - as gas lines were ruptured from the quake.The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck at 5:15 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906.As damaging as the earthquake and its aftershocks were, the fires that burned out of control afterward were even more destructive.http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.htmlhttp://www.zpub.com/sf/history/1906earth��http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Fr��
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francisco fire 1906.jpg|right|thumb|center|550px| Not in history has a modern imperial city been so completely destroyed. San Francisco is gone. �C Jack London after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake and fire.?At 5:12 AM on the morning of April 18 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and northern California. As buildings collapsed from the shaking, ruptured gas lines ignited fires that would spread across the city and burn out of control for several days. With water mains out of service, the Presidio Artillery Corps attempted to contain the inferno by dynamiting blocks of buildings to create firebreaks.? More than three-quarters of the city lay in ruins, including almost all of the downtown core. Contemporary accounts reported that 498 people lost their lives, though modern estimates put the number in the several thousands. More than half the city s population of 400,000 were left homeless. Refugees settled temporarily in makeshift tent villages in Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, on the beaches, and elsewhere. Many fled permanently to the East Bay.On the night of April 17th in 1906, the world-famous tenor Enrico Caruso wowed San Franciscans at the Tivoli Opera House with his performance in Carmen. The next day would �C unfortunately �C prove much more memorable for San Francisco. That Wednesday morning, at twelve minutes past five, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7,8 on the Richter scale struck the Bay Area.The quake lasted 42 seconds, causing severe damage. Ruptured gas lines (and the scarcity of water due to ruptures in those lines) caused city-wide fires that eventually were responsible for up to 90% of the total destruction. Additionally, since the insurance companies didn��t refund the actual quake damage, many people set fire to their own homes. The fires raged for four days and nights. By that time, 80% of the city was destroyed. Estimates of the damage range from $500 million to as high as $1 billion (equivalent to as much as $300 billion in 2005 money).The army was brought in to control the fires (which they did with dynamite and even artillery barrages) and stop the looting. In all, 500 presumed looters were shot. Some destruction and loss of life occurred outside San Francisco, but the bulk of the 3.000 casualties were to be regretted in the Golden Gate city itself. Three quarters of its population of 400.000 were made homeless. Half of those fled across the Bay to Oakland and Berkeley, others took up residence in massive camps of shacks and tents at Golden Gate Park and the Presidio, among other places.Some of those camps were still open in 1908, indicating the slowness of the rebuilding effort (the city wouldn��t be considered ��rebuilt�� until the Exposition of 1915). Up until then, San Francisco had been the undisputed economic centre of the West Coast. Los Angeles profited from the diversion of trade, industry and population, and eventually overtook its rival to the north.This map (found here) was drawn by H.M. Pettit for Leslie��s Weekly, a famous American illustrated news magazine founded in 1852 and operating well into the 20th century, when some of its covers were drawn by Norman Rockwell. As befits a news weekly founded by an engraver, (Frank) Leslie��s Weekly featured a fair share of maps, illuminating a contemporary news story. This map��s title and subtitle are of a charming, old school length and descriptiveness:Destruction of One of the Greatest Modern Cities. Bird��s-Eye view of Stricken San Francisco, Showing the Burned District, Covering Twenty-Five Square Miles, With the Most Prominent Places and Buildings Carefully Indicated.Oriented to the southwest, the map surrounds the Burned District with a dotted line, from the Union Iron Works at the left side of the map up to Twin Peaks in the centre of the peninsula, and then along Van Ness Avenue almost to the Bay, taking a right on Greenwich Street via Telegraph Hill to the water, sparing the area around Fisherman��s Wharf. In total, about 500 city blocks were destroyed. Some significant locations are spelled out on the map:? Examiner Building. Collapsed.? Call Building. Badly Damaged.? Valencia Hotel. Collapsed, 17 Killed.? Mechanics Pavillion. Used As Morgue and Refuge for Injured. Building Burned, Injured Removed, 200 Bodies Left Were Cremated.? Presidio Reservation. Where 50.000 people Are Encamped.? South San Francisco. Burning In Spots.The Wikipedia entry for the Great San Francisco Quake of 1906, on which much of this article was based, mentions Caruso��s traumatic exit from San Francisco: ��Clutching an autographed photo of President Theodore Roosevelt, (he) made an effort to get out of the city, first by boat and then by train, and vowed never to return to San Francisco. He kept his word.��-------------Also, glad your cat will be ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I m glad I could help you!!!!!!!!!!! TC!!!!!!!!!, Julia
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