BY JOEL WILLIAMS Published: January, 2019 The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) officially commenced operations last month at the new Ron Cowan Central Bay Maintenance and Operations Facility in Alameda. A large crowd attended the ribbon cutting event in the shadow of the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum […]
By Matt Larson Published: January, 2013 Jari "Howdy" Hytonen, a captain for Blue & Gold Fleet, isn’t much different from the other captains we’ve met so far. "I think we’re all pretty much the same," he said of the fleet’s captaining styles. "I want to be as gentle as possible. And always—safety of the passengers […]
By Wes Starratt, PEPublished: April, 2006 San Francisco is a city surrounded on three sides by water and on two sides by major earthquake faults. The City has two fireboats, the Phoenix and the Guardian. They are docked at Firehouse No. 35 at Pier 22½, which is located directly under the Bay Bridge. Between earthquakes, […]
