This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 16 In a city that filled the past 165 years with larger-than-life characters, firefighter David Scannell may be the one most worthy of Paul Bunyan-style legend. One of San Francisco's earliest fire chiefs, Scannell battled his first blaze in 1851 as a volunteer, just days after arriving in San Francisco on a steamship. Even in his older years, as he pushed 70 and still led the department, Scannell insisted that he sweat and risk his life alongside his charges. "At the big fire in 1888, which swept the district from Main Street to the bay, one of Scannell's legs was broken by a falling timber," The Chronicle reported years later. "They wanted to convey him to a hospital, but he would not allow it. 'Bring a doctor here,' said he, 'and let him fix it up.' He had his own way, and while the doctor was pulling at his leg and putting it in splints he issued orders to his men as though nothing had happened." The San Francisco police and fire departments were born out of the roughness of the city's Barbary Coast, and for better and worse… Read full this story
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