Fire department reports new pump station, cisterns and push to recruit neighborhood captains
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Summary
Fire Department representatives said pump station No. 2 is operating to allow bay-water augmentation for firefighting, new cisterns and host centers have been installed, and officials urged volunteers to become neighborhood disaster captains while the city develops additional language-capacity training.
Chief Brown reported to the Disaster Council that the Fire Department has upgraded the city's emergency water supply by bringing pump station No. 2 online to draw water from the bay to augment firefighting operations. "We now have our pump station number 2 up and running," the chief said.
The department said it has installed cisterns (noted as concentrated in the Sunset neighborhood) to provide static water sources and established three new host centers to implement an above-ground emergency water-supply system.
Council members and the chief also discussed volunteer recruitment for neighborhood "captains" and instructors to support disaster response. Council members noted a shortage of instructors and referenced an existing Spanish-language program the transcript names as "Lisco's program"; the chief said staff are working to develop comparable Cantonese-language capacity.
Officials encouraged members of the public to volunteer as neighborhood captains to assist the department during activations. The discussion was informational and included no formal motions or resource commitments.
