Six former commanders and two firefighters at a San Francisco fire station who were reassigned amid a sexual harassment investigation in 2016 sued the city Wednesday, saying they were discriminated against because the alleged harassment victim was having an affair with a battalion chief.
Firefighters at Station 2 on Powell Street in Chinatown were accused of waging a three-month campaign of sexual harassment against a female co-worker starting in late 2015, in which they allegedly taunted her, urinated in her bed and smeared feces in her bathroom.
Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White later ordered the transfer of all command officers from the station, citing “egregious harassing and retaliatory behavior” by firefighters at Station 2 that created a “hostile work environment based on gender,” according to a confidential document obtained by The Chronicle.