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Jaxon Van Derbeken

Reporter · US

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Sep 17, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Jaxon Van Derbeken

    SF fire station shakeup ordered after ‘derogatory’ poster found (opens the original)

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    A poster mocking several San Francisco firefighters has led to a command shakeup at one of the city’s fire stations, with the department shifting four lieutenants, two captains and three battalion chiefs after the discovery. The poster was found pinned to the wall last month at Fire Station No. 8 on Bluxome Street, according to multiple department sources with knowledge of the incident. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are The poster featured photographs of several female firefighters a

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Jaxon Van Derbeken

    Bolt failures during Transbay Tube retrofit blamed on BART oversight lapses (opens the original)

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    Hundreds of high strength anchor bolts needed to secure seismic plates on the retrofit of BART’s Transbay Tube failed immediately – a breakdown that a new audit blames on flawed oversight by BART. In the end, more than 8,000 bolts – originally ordered to fasten the steel plates that were installed to help the tunnel withstand seismic motions – had to be replaced with different anchors, at a total cost of more than $2 million – twice the originally budgeted amount for the fastening system, the au

  3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Jaxon Van Derbeken

    SF’s fast-tracking of Marina Safeway project challenged by neighbors (opens the original)

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    Residents have filed a federal suit over the planned high-rise residential project at the Marina Safeway site, accusing San Francisco planning officials of giving the project fast-track approval without meeting rules that disqualify contaminated sites. They contend in the suit that the site is known to be contaminated by a nearby manufactured gas plant and other industrial activities over decades. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are The action alleges the city’s planning department gra

  4. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Jaxon Van Derbeken

    BART blames heat, aging equipment for Tuesday meltdowns in Daly City (opens the original)

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    A BART operations official told the agency's governing board Thursday that aging power equipment was to blame for Tuesday's Daly City substation fire, which broke out just as BART engineers were scrambling to deal with a rash of apparent heat-related train-control system meltdowns in the same area. At a briefing of the agency’s governing board, BART Operations Manager Sylvia Lamb said hours before the fire Tuesday night, excessive heat apparently caused an air conditioning system failure at the

  5. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Jaxon Van Derbeken

    Caltrans spending $500,000 to remove eucalyptus trees in Montara (opens the original)

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    Crews have begun to clear stands of highly flammable eucalyptus trees from Caltrans land that homeowners in the San Mateo County town of Montara had pushed to remove ahead of this fire season. Using chainsaws and giant excavators and chippers, crews have started clearing across 15 acres of land Caltrans purchased decades ago to build a bypass around the treacherous Devil’s Slide area of Highway 1. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are Caltrans never used the land, and over time, it turne

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