Tag Archives: San Francisco Fire Department

Two San Francisco firefighters assigned to Station 2 in Chinatown that is at the center of an investigation into sexual harassment and sexual misconduct have come forward to publicly discuss the allegations with KTVU.

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The San Francisco Fire Department has been in the headlines quite a bit lately, with allegations of sexual harassment leading to the transfer of 10 officers, the reported theft of fire department equipment by a firefighter, and two members accused of sexual misconduct in a moving ambulance.

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The San Francisco Fire Department is transferring ten officers including four battalion chiefs in the aftermath of a six-month sexual harassment investigation at Station 2. The investigation follows harassment allegations that included a complaint that someone had urinated on a female firefighter’s bed and smeared feces in her locker.

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The infamous case of the drunk San Francisco firefighter who struck a motorcyclist with a ladder truck and then fled the scene on foot in 2013, is moving toward a final settlement. On June 29, 2013, FF Michael Quinn was driving a ladder truck on a run when he proceeded through a red traffic light and collided with a motorcycle driven by Jack Frazier.

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The San Francisco Bay Area’s NBC affiliate has done an extensive expose on a series of complaints by former fire academy recruits, several of which have led to lawsuits.

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The San Francisco Fire Department is taking disciplinary action against a firefighter who was ordered to work an extra 24 hour shift, missed a run while working that shift, and was then discovered to be intoxicated. The strange story gets even stranger...

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The wrongful death suit against the San Francisco Fire Department arising out of the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in July, 2013, has been dismissed. The parents of 16 year old Ye Meng Yuan filed the suit last year. Yuan was allegedly written off as dead as SFFD began foam operations. The suit claimed that her body was struck by two San Francisco Fire Department vehicles.

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In a ruling that seems to have surprised the media and many firefighters, the drunk driving case against San Francisco firefighter Michael Quinn has been dismissed. Quinn was driving a ladder truck that struck and nearly killed a motorcyclist, Jack Frazier, on June 29, 2013. A security camera captured the dramatic incident.

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UPDATED 8/16/2014 WITH COMPLAINT: The long anticipated civil suit has been filed against the San Francisco Fire Department by the parents of a 16-year-old Chinese girl who died following the crash of an Asiana Airlines 777 in July 2013.

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Two more firefighters have been disciplined in the aftermath of the drunk driving incident in San Francisco last June that nearly cost a motorcyclist his life. Two assistant chiefs, Art Kenney and Dave Franklin, have been suspended for 10 days ...

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A female firefighter who characterizes herself as a “24-year veteran firefighter … a lesbian and woman of color who helped pioneer desegregation efforts” in the San Francisco Fire Department claims she has been made to be the scapegoat for the ...

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San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White has decided to rescind the reprimand she previous issued to Battalion Chief Mark Johnson for taking an unauthorized helmet cam video at the scene of the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 last July. ...

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The already bizarre case of the Asiana Airlines crash just took a major detour toward the extreme bizarre with word that a San Francisco firefighter has filed a claim against the city alleging that she has been defamed and discriminated ...

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A video showing the aftermath of the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco last July is raising a new question in some peoples' minds about patient abandonment. The video shows Ye Meng Yuan, the 16 year old ...

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