The Oakland City Council has unanimously passed a resolution to allow three temporarily closed fire stations to re-open, the office of Councilmember Janani Ramachandran announced.  

The resolution, which was introduced by Councilmembers Ramachandran, Rebecca Kaplan and Zac Unger, provides the money necessary to allow the stations to resume operations.  

Stations 10, 25 and 28 will reopen in the coming weeks, Ramachandran’s office said on Tuesday. The resolution earmarks $2 million to keep the stations open. 

Stations 25 and 28 are located in the Oakland hills and had closed in January and were supposed to remain shut through July. Station 10 is located in the Grand Lake area and closed for renovations in 2022 but had been unable to reopen due to the city’s budget woes.  

As it now stands, all of Oakland’s 25 fire stations will be open and operational “well before the end of this fiscal year,” June 30, said Ramachandran’s office. 

Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.