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Residents urge changes after alarm‑testing announcements and warn park closures may block engines
Summary
Two residents told the Fire Commission that intercom announcements at a large Rincon Center complex instructing occupants to "ignore alarms" during testing risk resident safety, and that Friday afternoon park closures near the Chain of Lakes can impede engine access; both called for department intervention.
During general public comment on April 27, two speakers raised safety concerns for the Fire Commission.
Richard Rothman, who said he lives in the Outer Richmond near Station 34, thanked the department for earlier care and raised a traffic and access concern: he said Friday afternoon closures and heavy congestion around the Chain of Lakes sometimes back traffic up to Fulton Street and could…
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