FRANK J. GRACIAFrank J. Gracia - November 25, 1944 (#97)
Engine Co. No. 40 - 1249 Clayton Street

COLLISION WITH STREET CAR

Appointed November 25, 1924

Assigned to Engine Co. No. 21, 1925
Assigned to Engine Co. No. 40

FOUR FIREMEN HURT IN CRASH

1944 November 27

Four firemen yesterday were recovering from minor injuries incurred when the fire truck on which they were riding collided with a No. 20 streetcar and overturned at Page and Clayton Streets.

Injured in the crash, which occurred Saturday night, were Thomas Glynn, 39, of 23 Addison Street, driver of the truck; Charles E. Miller, 61, 1300 Twenty-sixth Avenue; Frank Garcia 44, of 58 Ord Street, and Carl Hass, 33, 463 Sanchez Street.

Officials said the reported fire, at Schrader and Oak Street, was a false alarm.
Source San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, 27 November 1944, page 11.

DEATHS
1944 December 7

GRARCIA – In this city, December 7, 1944.

Frank J., dearly beloved husband of Marie M. Gracia, beloved son of the late Emil and Frances Gracia, brother of Joseph, Walter and Ramon Gracia. A member of S. F. F. D., Widows and Orphans’ Mutual Aid Assn., Veteran Firemen’s Assn., David Scannell Club and S. F. Court No. 10, I. O. F.

Funeral Saturday 2 p.m.. from Gantner, Felder, Kenny Chapel, 1965 Market Street at Duboce Avenue. Internment Olivet Memorial Park.
Source San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, 08 December 1944, page 13.

FALSE ALARM CRASH FATAL TO FIREMAN.
JUDGE ALSO STRESSES NEED TO HEED SRENS.

1944 December 8

 A crackdown campaign against persons who turning false fire alarms and those who fail to heed sirens was intensified yesterday as a 44 year old fireman, Frank Garcia, died at San Francisco Hospital of injuries suffered when his fire engine was overturned when answering a false alarm November 25.  

MOTORMAN CITED.

Philip Barry, 336 Granada Street, motorman of the No. 20 street car that collided with a fire truck and caused it to overturn, had previously been cited for failure to heed a siren. Garcia a member of the department for twenty years, resided at 58 Ord Street.

Three other firemen are injured in the crash, which occurred at Clayton and Page Street, as the truck was responding to a telephone call that later proved to be a false alarm.

JUDGES ISSUE WARNING.

Meanwhile, stern warnings of severe penalties against persons who turn in false alarms or fail to heed sirens were voiced by Municipal Judges William. F. Traverso, Leo Cunningham and Daniel R. Shoemaker, presiding jurist.
Source San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, 08 December 1944, page 26.

Extracted from original sources with grammar and spelling as published.

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