Can't init firebase cloud storage due to cloud resource location

I’m using Firebase emulators to develop and test Cloud Functions locally, and one of my use cases involves uploading a file to Cloud Storage. As part of this process, I initialize Firebase emulators with the Cloud Storage service as follows:

npx firebase init emulators

=== Emulators Setup
? Which Firebase emulators do you want to set up? Press Space to select emulators, then Enter to confirm your choices. Storage 
Emulator
? Which port do you want to use for the storage emulator? 9199
? Would you like to enable the Emulator UI? Yes
? Which port do you want to use for the Emulator UI (leave empty to use any available port)? 
? Would you like to download the emulators now? Yes

Then I tried starting firebase emulators for cloud storage, but got an error:

npx firebase emulators:start --only storage

Error: Cannot start the Storage emulator without rules file specified in firebase.json: run 'firebase init' and set up your Storage configuration

This makes sense because the storage.rules file needs to be created before the emulators can start up Cloud Storage. So, next I ran:

npx firebase init storage

=== Storage Setup
Error: Cloud resource location is not set for this project but the operation you are attempting to perform in Cloud Storage requires it. Please see this documentation for more details: https://firebase.google.com/docs/projects/locations

I went to the Firebase Console, enabled storage, and selected the service location, matching the location of all other Firebase services I’m using. However, even after a few hours, I keep receiving the same error message, as if my local Firebase setup doesn’t recognize that the storage service has been activated.

Environment Details:

•   macOS Sequoia 15.0
•   VS Code 1.95.1
•   Node.js v18 (also tried with v20 and v22)
•   Firebase CLI 13.23.1