Breaking her public silence on the harassment endured by a female firefighter at a station near San Francisco’s Chinatown, the city’s fire chief strongly denounced the deplorable behavior of the woman’s male colleagues Friday and left open the possibility of further disciplinary action.
The harassment — which included urination in the female firefighter’s bed — occurred at Powell Street’s Station 2, according to a confidential document obtained by The Chronicle.
“That’s something, obviously, that we don’t tolerate,” said Chief Joanne Hayes-White, after an event at Fisherman’s Wharf to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the San Francisco Fire Department.
She said the ordeal the male firefighters put their female co-worker through in an attempt to drive her out of the firehouse was a disappointment.
The male firefighters involved in the string of incidents that started in November 2015 and continued until February 2016, according to the report, routinely discriminated against their female co-worker “because she is a woman.”