{"id":254863,"date":"2026-04-07T00:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254863\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:24:27","slug":"historic-san-francisco-streetcar-collides-with-fire-truck-on-the-embarcadero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254863\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic San Francisco streetcar collides with fire truck on the Embarcadero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A historic San Francisco Municipal Railway streetcar and a San Francisco Fire Department engine <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SFMTA_Muni\/status\/2041228641892442452\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:collided on the Embarcadero;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;collided on the Embarcadero&quot;}\" class=\"link \">collided on the Embarcadero<\/a> Monday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash occurred shortly after noon at the intersection of Embarcadero and Bay Street, according to a fire department spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Engine 28 was responding to a medical emergency and was maneuvering at the scene when it struck the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency light rail train, according to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The streetcar involved, a Pacific Electric car built in 1948, is a notable piece of transit history. It originally served as part of the &#8220;Big Red Car&#8221; network in Southern California before being restored for use on San Francisco&#8217;s scenic F Market &amp; Wharves line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials confirmed that no injuries were reported among the firefighters or the passengers on the streetcar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SFMTA said in a statement it is arranging bus shuttles to support F Line service between the Ferry Building and Jones\/Beach in both directions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident is currently under investigation by the San Francisco Police Department, with the cooperation of the Fire Department and the SFMTA. Authorities have not yet released an official damage assessment for the vintage rail vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Transit officials advised travelers to avoid the northern Embarcadero area Monday afternoon as crews worked to clear the tracks and restore regular rail service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/historic-streetcar-fire-truck-collision-22192039.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Historic San Francisco streetcar collides with fire truck on the Embarcadero;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Historic San Francisco streetcar collides with fire truck on the Embarcadero&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Historic San Francisco streetcar collides with fire truck on the Embarcadero<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A historic San Francisco Municipal Railway streetcar and a San Francisco Fire Department engine collided on the Embarcadero&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[10470,11057,94961,101,103,102,104,106,105,49813],"class_list":{"0":"post-254863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-embarcadero","9":"tag-fire-department","10":"tag-pacific-electric","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news","17":"tag-sffd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}