DAVID J. BRITTDavid J. Britt, Captain - January 1, 1927 (#80)
Truck Company No. 3

HEART ATTACK

Appointed November 24, 1909

Assigned to Engine Co. No. 39, 1910

Appointed Lieutenant, August 15, 1918
Appointed Captain, June 26, 1922 

Assigned to Truck Co. No. 3, 1922

Son: William appointed fireman in 1947. Retired as Battalion Chief

CITY FIREMAN FOUND DEAD

For the first time in his long career as a city fireman, Captain David Britt, in command Truck No. 3, on Post Street, near Polk, failed heed the gone early yesterday morning when it tapped out an alarm.

Apparently dozing in his chair he could not be awakened by the urgent shaking his comrades. The company left him and his chair, put out a small fire in the apartment of William Starbuck, 1600 California Street, and then returned.

Captain Britt had not moved, and at the Central Emergency Hospital, where he was taken in an ambulance, physician said that the veteran firefighter just as shrieking sirens and jangling bells were ushering in the new year.

Captain Britt was 40 years old and lived at 750 Nineteenth avenue. He leaves two sons, 10 and 12 years old; a mother and sister. His family last night was completing arrangements for the funeral, which will be conducted with civic honors.

One of the most popular members of the San Francisco fire department, Captain Britt was energetic in all the affairs of the organization.
Source:  San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, 2 January 1927, Sunday, Page 16.

DEATHS

BRITT - in this city, January 1, 1927.
Captain David J. Britt, beloved husband of May F. Britt, devoted son of Maria and the late Jeffrey Britt, loving father Robert A. and William F. Britt, brother of Ellen Flanders and Josephine Britt, native of San Francisco, aged 46 years. A member of the Widows and Orphans’ Association, Mutual Aid Association, and the David Scannell Club of the S.F.F.D.

Friends are invited to attend the funeral Monday morning January 3, at the Star of the Sea Church, Geary Street at Eighth avenue, where and requiem high mass will be celebrated for the repose his soul, commencing at 9:30 o’clock. Internment, Holy Cross Cemetery. Friends may call at Grays, Divisadero street at Post.
Source:  San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, 3 January 1927, Sunday, Page 4.

Extracted from original sources with grammar and spelling as published.

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