The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to name a portion of Willow Street in the Fillmore District after Earl Gage Jr., the city's first Black firefighter. Gage was hired by the San Francisco Fire Department in 1955 at age 28. He was a trailblazer who pushed to improve the racial diversity in the department, despite being its only Black firefighter for 12 years. He retired in 1983, and died in 2017 at the age of 90. #alwayssf #firefighterheros