Impressive San Francisco Emergency Sevices

View outside the Eisengeiste San Francisco City Offices, 50 feet away, Jan. 1, 8:11 PM, before 20-some emergency vehicles arrived and completely surrounded the block, putting out a major and intense house fire after about half an hour; the Other Front had left an important conference here just over an hour previous.  Had the wind been different, so might the outcome.
 
Thankfully, our lives were not dependent on a free market solution; the City's emergency services were swift, efficient, organized and in force.