Dennis Sullivan
Books
- Three Days of Fire Earthquake, Fire, and the Forging of Modern San Francisco · Liszt Think
At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco shattered. The true catastrophe began moments later when Fire Chief Dennis Sullivan died in the rubble and water mains ruptured, leaving the city defenseless against…
- The Municipal Defense Unmade…Bulloch would initiate an annual tradition of painting this hydrant gold on April 18, commemorating its survival and dedicating it to Chief Dennis Sullivan and those firefighters who gave their lives. The ritual would transform a piece of municipal iron into civic memory, honoring not success b…
- The Birth of the First Major…scribed fighting with nothing to fight with, and noted that the chief would have known what to do, but the chief was gone. The reference to Dennis Sullivan, who would survive until 4: 00 p. m. On April 19, was already part of the explanatory vocabulary of disaster. The physical template establi…
- Army Brigadier General Frederick Funston…portion of city hall, found that federal troops already controlled the principal thoroughfares. The fire chief who had assumed command upon Dennis Sullivan’s incapacitation discovered that soldiers were assisting his department—under their own officers, according to their own priorities. The Ar…