Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Fire Department shall maintain and operate neighborhood firehouses and emergency apparatus at the same location and to the same extent as existed on January 1, 2004, as is listed below.
Stations | Location | Emergency Apparatus | Neighborhoods Served |
Stations | Location | Emergency Apparatus | Neighborhoods Served |
Station 1 | 676 Howard | Engine/Truck/Rescue Squad | Downtown, Tenderloin, SoMa |
Station 2 | 1340 Powell | Engine/Truck/Battalion | Chinatown, North Beach, Nob Hill |
Station 3 | 1067 Post | Engine/Truck | Tenderloin, SoMa, Civic Center, Polk Gulch |
Station 5 | 1301 Turk | Engine/Truck/Division | Fillmore, Western Addition, Japantown |
Station 6 | 135 Sanchez | Engine/Truck | Castro, Lower Haight, Mission, Duboce Triangle |
Station 7 | 2300 Folsom | Engine/Truck/Rescue Squad/Division | Mission District, Bernal Heights |
Station 8 | 36 Bluxome | Engine/Truck/Battalion | SoMa, South Beach, Mission Bay |
Station 9 | 2245 Jerrold | Engine/Truck/Battalion | Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights |
Station 10 | 655 Presidio | Engine/Truck | Presidio Heights, Laurel Heights, Western Addition |
Station 11 | 3880 26th Street | Engine/Truck/Battalion | Noe Valley, Mission District, Castro |
Station 12 | 1145 Stanyan | Engine/Truck | Haight Ashbury, Cole Valley |
Station 13 | 530 Sansome | Engine/Truck | Financial District, North Beach, Chinatown |
Station 14 | 551 26th Avenue | Engine/Truck | Richmond, Presidio |
Station 15 | 1000 Ocean | Engine/Truck/Battalion | Ingleside |
Station 16 | 2251 Greenwich | Engine/Truck | Marina, Cow Hollow, Presidio |
Station 17 | 1295 Shafter | Engine/Truck | Bayview/Hunters Point |
Station 18 | 1933 32nd Avenue | Engine/Truck | Sunset |
Station 19 | 390 Buckingham | Engine/Truck | Park Merced, Stonestown, Lake Merced |
Station 20 | 285 Olympia | Engine/Mobile Air Unit | Forest Hill, Inner Sunset |
Station 21 | 1443 Grove | Engine | Fillmore, Western Addition, Haight |
Station 22 | 1290 16th Avenue | Engine | Inner Sunset |
Station 23 | 1348 45th Avenue | Engine | Sunset |
Station 24 | 100 Hoffman | Engine | Noe Valley, Castro, Twin Peaks |
Station 25 | 3305 3rd Street | Engine | Potrero Hill, Bayview/Hunters Point |
Station 26 | 80 Digby | Engine | Glen Park, Diamond Heights |
Station 28 | 1814 Stockton | Engine | North Beach, Telegraph Hill |
Station 29 | 299 Vermont | Engine | Potrero Hill, Mission District |
Station 31 | 441 12th Avenue | Engine/Battalion | Richmond |
Station 32 | 194 Park | Engine | Bernal Heights, Mission District |
Station 33 | 8 Capitol | Engine | OceanView, Merced Heights |
Station 34 | 499 41st Avenue | Engine | Outer Richmond |
Station 35 | Pier 22½ | Engine/Fireboat | Embarcadero, Downtown, South Beach |
Station 36 | 109 Oak Street | Engine/Battalion | Civic Center, Hayes Valley |
Station 37 | 798 Wisconsin | Engine | Potrero Hill, Dog Patch |
Station 38 | 2150 California | Engine/Battalion | Pacific Heights, Marina, Upper Fillmore |
Station 39 | 1091 Portola | Engine | Miraloma, St. Francis Wood, West Portal |
Station 40 | 2155 18th Avenue | Engine/Battalion | Parkside, Forest Hill |
Station 41 | 1325 Leavenworth | Engine | Russian Hill, Nob Hill |
Station 42 | 2430 San Bruno Avenue | Engine | Portola, Silver Terrace |
Station 43 | 720 Moscow | Engine | Excelsior, Outer Mission, Crocker Amazon |
Station 44 | 1298 Girard | Engine | Visitacion Valley, Sunnydale |
Station 48 | Treasure Island | Engine/Truck/Hose Tender | Treasure Island |
Each such firehouse shall remain open 24 hours a day, and the emergency apparatus located at each firehouse shall be adequately staffed so as to be able to respond to a fire, medical or other emergency 24 hours a day. The Fire Department shall not close, abandon or consolidate any existing firehouse, or provide a level of service at that firehouse or for the apparatus within that firehouse, lower than that existing as of January 1, 2004, except as specified below.
In addition to the apparatus housed within each neighborhood firehouse as of January 1, 2004, as listed above, the Fire Department shall maintain and operate 24 hours per day the following: an arson/fire investigation unit; no fewer than four ambulances; and four Rescue Captains (Medical Supervisors). The Chief of the Department shall determine which station will house those units.
The Fire Department, with the concurrence of the Fire Commission and subject to approval by the Board of Supervisors, may establish such additional firehouses as it deems necessary to meet the safety needs of the residents of the City and County of San Francisco. The Fire Department may relocate apparatus from one neighborhood firehouse to another only if the Chief, with the concurrence of the Fire Commission and approval by the Board of Supervisors, declares doing so is necessary to meet the safety needs of the citizenry and will not prevent servicing that neighborhood 24 hours a day. In no event may the Fire Department remove apparatus from a neighborhood firehouse if doing so prevents that firehouse from responding to fires and medical emergency calls from that location 24 hours a day.
A neighborhood firehouse listed above may be closed only for unsafe structural conditions, or if necessary to retrofit or renovate the building, or if it has been replaced by a new firehouse in that same neighborhood. Such closure must be recommended by the Fire Department, concurred in by the Fire Commission, and approved by the Board of Supervisors, and must be accompanied by a detailed plan for restoring adequate services to the neighborhood served by that firehouse as soon as possible.
Nothing in this Section shall prevent the Fire Department from temporarily closing a firehouse and moving the apparatus within it if that firehouse poses an immediate danger to public safety, provided that the Department shall seek the concurrence of the Fire Commission and the approval of the Board of Supervisors as soon as is reasonably possible.
(Added by Proposition F, 11/8/2005)