Special Report
Sleighing it: SFFD revives holiday lights tradition
San Francisco firefighters bring back a 1940s decoration tradition — hoping to stoke holiday spirit in city neighborhoods during pandemic
By Peter Hartlaub |
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 11:50 AM
After the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about a 70-year-old San Francisco fire station decoration contest earlier this month, the SF Fire Department decided to bring it back.
With just 12 days to decorate, firefighters from Ocean Beach to the Haight-Ashbury to Nob Hill to Embarcadero turned their stations into beacons of holiday spirit — to inspire some socially distant neighborhood cheer.
See the decorations using the map below, and (safely) visit your local stations. Winners will be announced by The Chronicle later this week, with $6,000 in prize money from San Francisco Fire Credit Union going to charities of the winners’ choice.