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The San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) provides fire and emergency medical services to the City and County of San Francisco, California. The San Francisco Fire Department, along with the San Francisco Police Department and San Francisco Sheriff's Department, serves an estimated population of 1.4 million people, which includes the approximately 850,000 citizens residing in the 47.5 sqmi of San Francisco (including Treasure Island, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, the San Francisco International Airport, and the Presidio of San Francisco/Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

In 2012, the San Francisco Fire Department responded to 120,536 emergency calls, with 28,281 being fire-related and 92,255 being emergency medical-related.

Organization
The San Francisco Fire Department is divided into two sections of operation: Operations and Administration. Each section is commanded by a deputy chief, who reports directly to the chief of department.

Operations
All emergency response operations are supervised by the deputy chief of operations, who is second in command after the chief of department. Department operations include fire suppression, tactical rescue, emergency medical care, fire prevention, arson investigation, response to natural disasters, mass-casualty, and hazardous materials incidents, and fire and EMS dispatch supervision. The deputy chief is responsible for supervising all field operations, division chiefs, battalion chiefs, company officers, emergency response personnel, and assistant deputy chiefs.

Administration
All department activities related to personnel, training, equipment and resources are supervised by the deputy chief of administration, who is third in command after the chief of department. The deputy chief is responsible for supervision of the assistant deputy chiefs assigned to manage the Division of Support Services and the Division of Training as well as the personnel charged with management of human resources and finance. The Office of the Department Physician, the department's safety officer and the Bureau of Investigative Services are also under direct supervision of the deputy chief of administration.

Airport units

 * 3 ARFF engines (E33, E46 & E56)
 * 2 ARFF trucks (T41, T44)
 * 1 ARFF captain's unit
 * 1 ARFF mini-pumper unit
 * 5 ARFF crash trucks (ARF7, ARF8, ARF9, ARF10, ARF11) *all are 8x8s
 * 2 ARFF crash trucks (Spare: ARF37=4x4, and ARF90=6x6

In popular culture

 * The SFFD was the responding fire department to a major high-rise fire disaster in the 1974 film, The Towering Inferno. The film cast many actual firefighters from the department and used many actual SFFD fire trucks during the filming. Fire Station 38 was also shown in the filming. The exterior shots were done at the Bank of America Building, 555 California.
 * The SFFD was also used in the Dirty Harry film series, particularly Rescue Squad 2 in Dirty Harry.
 * When a veteran SFFD firefighter is killed and Adrian Monk is blinded in a mysterious attack at a firehouse in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk Can't See a Thing," Monk must rely on his other senses to solve the bizarre case. In the course of the episode, he finds that the killer came to the firehouse to steal a fireman's coat and even finds that the man who blinded him had just beforehand killed a woman a few blocks away and set fire to her house (that fire was the one the engine company had been responding to when the murder at the firehouse took place). The depicted fire station, Fire Station 53, is a fictitious station. The exterior of the station was represented by Fire Station 1 of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
 * In the Monk novel series by Lee Goldberg, Joe Cochran, Natalie Teeger's occasional lover, is an SFFD firefighter, making appearances in the novels Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse, Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, and Mr. Monk in Outer Space.
 * The SFFD was featured in two Emergency! television movies in 1978 and 1979, where L.A. County firefighter/paramedics Gage and DeSoto run calls with the firefighters of Rescue Squad 2.
 * The NBC Television show Trauma followed the fictional lives of SFFD paramedics, EMTs and flight medics.
 * The department is featured in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill. After San Francisco City Hall is set ablaze by the villainous Max Zorin in an attempt to kill Bond, the SFFD arrives on scene and assists Roger Moore's character in escaping the burning building and then ultimately "borrows" a SFFD ladder truck in order to outrun the police officers chasing him on the suspicion that his character set the blaze.
 * The CBS Television series "Rescue 9-1-1-" Episode #107 the 4th Segment featured The San Francisco Fire Department responding to an apartment fire and in one of the scenes, sparks shoot over a firetruck from a broken wire from a powerline and the Station # was Station #9 built in 1915.