S.F. street to be renamed in honor of city’s first Black firefighter

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to commemorate the city’s first Black firefighter, Earl Gage Jr., by naming a block-long street in the city’s Western Addition neighborhood for him.

Supervisor Dean Preston proposed renaming Willow Street, which runs between Buchanan and Laguna streets parallel to Eddy and Ellis streets, and the board unanimously approved the measure on Tuesday.