Richmond Mayor Tom Butt is putting out an SOS to save the 147-year-old East Brother Light Station, northeast of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, after the underwater power cable leading to the small island failed April 1.
Butt said in a statement that the U.S. Coast Guard, which is responsible for the cable, isn’t confident it can replace it. Butt is one of the co-founders of the nonprofit East Brother Light Station, Inc., that rehabilitated the station in 1979 and turned it into a tiny bed-and-breakfast inn the following year.
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