LOUIS E. SULLIVANLouis E. Sullivan - September 2, 1940 (#92)
Engine Co. No. 11 - 1632 Oakdale

Flats - 278 PRECITA AVENUE

BLAZE ROUTS 15 PERSONS FROM TWO APARTMENT BJUILDINGS

Apparently suffocated by smoke fumes, fire lieutenant Louis Sullivan collapsed and died late yesterday on the roof of a burning on Precita Avenue near Folsom Street.

Sullivan, a relief officer with the fire department, had accompanied Engine No. 13 to the two alarm blaze which had enveloped two frame dwellings at 278 and 282 Precita Avenue.

Along with other men, he went by ladder to the roof of one of the buildings, and was directing operations there when he collapsed.

Fireman Albert Bates assisted by Edward McKittrick, driver for Chief Charles Brennan, took Sullivan precariously down a ladder and rushed him to Mission Emergency Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The fire, which starred in the garage of the building at 278 Precita, routed fifteen persons from the two structures, which housed small apartments.

A crippled child, 5 year old Richard Raney, was carried to safety by hiss father, George Ramey, form one of the apartments.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 1940

Extracted from original sources with grammar and spelling as published.