The San Francisco (CA) Fire Department’s Fireboat Station 35 opens for operations Thursday, and the San Francisco Chronicle had a look at the construction of the new fire station.
The 73-foot-long-by-96-foot-wide float allows the two-story, 4,900-square-foot station to ride the tides, potentially making it more resilient in the face of disasters such as fires and earthquakes.
The Fire Station 35 historical building will stay standing on the pier where it was originally built, and the fire apparatus it houses will still operate out of its garage, the report noted.
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