The San Francisco fire chief has ordered a command shakeup following what an internal probe found was a six-month long harassment campaign against a female firefighter stationed in Chinatown.
Mindy Talmadge, a department spokeswoman, would not comment about the specifics. But in documents obtained by NBC Bay Area, Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White described the abuse as “egregious” and cited “deficiencies in leadership” at Fire Station No. 2 that allowed the harassment to go on from January to July. Although department officials would not comment on the matter, citing personnel protections, multiple sources say it involved the smearing of feces in the woman’s locker room and urinating in the female firefighters bed.
The alleged abuse began, sources say, when fellow firefighters suspected the victim was having a relationship with a station commander.