th commission regular meeting. august 14, 2024 9:00 am. this meeting will be held in person at the location listed above. members of the public attending the mn opportuy to provide public comment. members ofhec■ participating remotely may access the meeting and participate remotely by following the instructions below. members of t may address the commission for up to three minutes r . public comment call in.. id 26629501828. webinar password is 1234. ensure you are in a quiet

location. speak clearly and turn off background sounds such as television, phones, radios. wait for the to address to be called when prompted■& be added to the queue. the system will notif you when you are in line. callers will hear silence when waiting for youreak. operao may also watch live at. sfgovtv.org. itenumber one. roll call. president. army. morgan. president vice president. marcy frazier. commissioner. steven nakajo. prt commissioner. catherine feinstein, president and commissioner paula col eusef department jeanine nicholson, president ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgment. the

san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohl, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the tais place, as well as for all peoples who territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands.s by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. item number two. general public comment. members of the public may addression for up to three minutes on any matter within theot

appear on the agenda. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with, or support o■j■xst durin■. thank you for reading the ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgment, madam secretary andt there any ■ approaching the podium.see there's one gentleman here. oh,. o

the fire department mm, fire chief and fellow chieftains. thank you ■.e city of san francisco and this fire department. i also appreciate the valuable time you've given meet wh you today. my name is timothy crenshaw. i am a wildland■' firefighter for the tamalpais fire crew at the marin county fire department. the reason why i'm here today is to respectfully request reconsideration for the 135th academy class and 2025. last month, on july 15th, i had my preliminary panel inteie and

if interest. schedule a chief's interview. i'm aware that this isn't the ideal time or place for my request, but this is the portunity i felt that i have support of my reconsideration. i would like>çme of my achievements, starting with y chief's interview with the city of sannc score of 930 and ranked second outre i also passed all drug and health examinations. background checks, voluntary boot camp workouts where i consistently tested above average in all physical

drills and exerc., system of current san francisco fire staff that have mentored me and believe in my poia. unfortunately i did not meet the deadline to renew my fctc written exam, ic non participat4 academy of 2023 or i'm sorry. yes, of the 134 academy. this lesson of heart and especially considering the resources invested in me by the cif san francisco and its fire personnel. since then, i've offered my freeand volunteered at the crockett fire department and currently work seal for the marin county

fire department, where i'veveloe fire professional as well as a team member. i hopepresence today, i'm sorry about the time, but i hope my presence today is a reflection of determination and will to be your time amongst thisarnk you. thank you. i do not see anyone on the public comment line, and i do not see anyone else approaching the podium. thank you madam secretary. so i guess we will call on the approval of thetes e aotion to approve the minutes from the 10th? so moved. i second. can i call a vote? we

vote. all right, i will call a . commissioner feinstein, how do you vote? yes. oh, yeah. okay. cssote? i vote aye. motion passes. minutes are approved. thank you, mad. thank you. item number four. departments. report. report from chief ofe nicholson. report on current issues, activities and events within tep since the fire commission meeting on july 10th,ge academies, special events, communications and other government agencies. report from report on overall field operations, including greater alarm fires.

bureau of fire prevention and at division. report from e community paramedicine deputy chief sandrat onhe ems and community paramedicine divisions. may i begin? thank you. president. president morgan, i'm sorry. ent. president morgan. vice maurn. and ourzier. commissioneo esteemed city attorney. and command staff. i am still your san francisco fire chief, janine nicholson. and this is my report. sinc our july that wee, i went to the re directors meeting. this is a meeting with a lot of the high

level chiefs in california. disd national trends, policies on everything from, fightin fires to cancer to wildland urban interface, all sorts of topics. and, it is a and i know some of ourem■vbers chief deputy chief kailua and assistant deputy chief, from the airport, pat darcy, are also involved in, fire scope mees inlopi policy. s there that week, it was a good meeting. a lot of connections made and, what keeps beeping? do we knowline comments. oh. all right. okay. all@ right, i also want to acknowledge we had two s membert

and gerald colbert, honored at the tenderloin museum, by our de facto mayf nderin, adele seymour. who was actually a firefighter in, los angeles, but heas honoring they were honoring african american members of the community and def tong and. the internships of our hbcu students, concluded, we had three of them. and it was it a good experience for the department? i think it was a it seemed to be pretty successful acrossheoathe city, and i attended their closing reception. i spoke at the rules committee, the board ofervirs, rules committee meeting about a charter

amendment that was put forward by local 798. that charter amendment has been, changed and edited and is now, it went through the regular board of supervisors, basically changi nt age from 58 to 55, which i think is wise because this is a young person's jobing■y forward with the wind? wow. we are moving forward with 135th clin be interviewing approximately 130 candidates over the next two weeks. and k is that the wind or is thatwind. that's that's the ac or

something? all right. i'll justp speaking up. so, anyways, we are moving forward with the 135th class interviews, approximately 130 candidates will be at headquarters two wei think this is just such important, job for us because we are selecting people that are going to be with us for the next 25 or 30 years. so super important, this past saturday was the peace day celebration, right outside here in, started in civic center plaza. the filipino culture and arts celebration. and, we went down t to yerba buena. thank you all those who attended, it was also this past weekend. it was firefighter appreciation night. multiple departments were honored, sacramento, san jose

oakland, as well as ours. and we had emt ishmael orozco,, it wasd his son were both there.was recognized for his efforts in saving the life of a scidal, patient by grabbing them by the ankles as they went out the window and then holding on to them for about ten minutes until we got a ladder company there. so, he was honored there, and. yeah. strong wwere joined, on the field by a command staff. so thank you to everyone that showed up. and as impending retirement. i have, i, and i'mg folks to take care of their health, and i

have been, kind of ignoring mine, and it's time for me to do that because it's kind of caught up with me and, and i want t happy and healthy retirement. so i was honored at the board of supervisors on july 30. thank you for attending to the commissioners who did attend. thank you very much, commissioner nakajo and frazieru know, there will be aress conference this afternoon with the mayor, at heart 1230. and i just want to thank all of the commissioners for all their and your guidance and your care for the department and for the membersit i really, really have appreciated it. and i will be here for anoeryou're

not getting rid of me just yet, an that concludes my report. thank you. chief. dew point, should we go into public comment? morgan, can you speak into the microphone, please? oh. i'm sorry. thank can you hear me? thank you for your report, chief, at this time, is there any questions fro to chief nicholson's report? i'd like say thank you, chiefry sll. thank you. and i thought the event at the board of supervisors meeting ly glad i got to hear what was, i think, really accurate and spot on. and you deserved every single word. sotu comments? so i'd like to say

thank you for your report. chief nicholson andhaime of excellencf service city of san francisco. and the fire department.t's going to be hard to hard to replace you. and, yous just. i just think it was you displayed excellent leadership. and i just want to say that i. i apologize for not being able to make the board of supervisors event. i'd like to hear more about it. if one of the commissioners canndet happened. but. yeah, i just want to. i just want to say thank you. j for your leadership. thank you, president morgan. appreciate it, commissioner ocasio, thank you

very much, president morgan. thank you veryuc chief, for your report. president morgan, commissioner feinstein, both myse aazier were at that ceremot the board ofvisors. and again, the vice president made her remarks w a beautiful, beautiful ceremony. very respectful, and it wasrealy member of the board of supervisors, make their remarks, i didn't know everybody, loved you as much as out there. but also, part of that was the proclamation that u we their favorite department head. i know that, announcements are emotional in terms of retirement, one time i sat up here and i kd i think. and i think about it wasr

the fire department? and the truth a whole lot. and in terms of that, i terms of your health and in terms of just having some good quality time, we o■ the commission and i know the rest of our colleagues here wish you all of that. and thank you for so much for what you do inms service and the leadership that you provided in this department, and working with this command force and the membership of our tha you so much, chief nicholson. thank you, . year president. thank you, know, i just i'll elaborate. i would just like to add, i of yot qualities of leadership. no matter what the rank treat everybody with respect like a human being, which you, you know, you just, you know, tmwor.

that's what you project teamwork tt. a i really respect that, you know, and that's what i got from me, we're going to miss your leadership, chief nicholson and, at this point, is there any other comments? i will, i will wait till the last meeting. okay intentionally. i'm sorry. yeah. well okay. i guess we can go to item five. no no no, no, wait a minute. no, it's chief. yes, sir. thank you, if we go to. there it is. all right? five. five. folk. i come before you agwi no greater alarms in the reporting period. to you agu

that my report will berief, but let's move forward, in the month of july, there was no statistics, the number ofde t and the number of working fires was conforming.nd lack of greater alarms is purely due to the grit, determiency and the sk of our operations chief d who serve underneath them, there was an increase in water rescue calls and cliff rescues. we tend to see in the summer, and we were some of this with the people who take particular concern of the dogs out in, at fortnd were recognized. the fire department was recognized for their strong work in rescuing people dof the. but i do not want to leave you without a fun fire story. so we will talk about the last box on un number

14, which was on the 25th of the month at 159 beaver street. this is a fy gone to a second alarm quite easily. you can see how tight beaver street is, the access problems that our rigs frequently encounter, positioning and was excellent at this incident. and you can see how, how tight the inet are. another thing that came up during this fire was ither avy . you can see the stairs with the yacht, rock albums and the other things than the stairs, which made access very difficult. it was described as a slip n slide for the companies that were working on it, and they had the charged hoy fought the fire fairly quickly once they were able see the loading. that's a these aren't giantsare normal, standard sized san francisco firefighters standing onamount d

you can see their heads almost touch the ceiling.adin conditiod the fire conditions, they were presented withdid excellent wors one injury due to the heat of the fire, but yeah, again complimentary to them easily could have been a greater alarm report. and i thank the companies for their quick and efficient action and keeping ite th damage to what we call the bravo or the exposure.e left hand side. but they were able to contain it priat buildi. excellent, excellent work. all right. to ourire prevention and investigation. i'll direct you to page nine, and highlighting just again that there was a significant increase in notice of the months of, the early months of

24, when new code ordinances went into effect. but you can see that the fire marshal's office has worvee these inspections. and bring them down and working to bring those notices of violations to completion, for r1, rogram, thes some new guidance that was issued at the field, hopefully e orshal's office. gather better information, and you can see they're working through that. th the assistance of the suppression companies quite seamlessly. i'll again highlight our relationship with the sfmta, that t marshal and i have been working with the mayors and the controller's office to streamlineha report will be forthcoming, will testify, at the mta commission later in the month, but you can seet the number of ejections and holds on pageha reduced significantly due to the strength of our cooperation. another g fire marshal's office took on last year w s new rules

for accessory dwelling units in the city of san francisco and the fire marshal's office k ve effectively with housing. and the mayor's office to get these approved and bui. increasing housing throughout the city. and then on pa 18, his addition of arrestmation is interesting. there were two arrests made for arson in themoe lack of fire activity or the perceived lack page 19, in the n francisco, i will point that it still remains the goalnd the mission of the san francisco fire dar there was still one death and four injuriesnd in the month of july. civilian we'll go to the airport division and chief darcy is excused from this meeting. his work continues apace, just a couple of things. i know he would liketo he was ad through the airport to advertise

and toe foa logistics officer, which will absolutelyay will have a new position th mant and, the other equipment that they need operations and i know you've noticedha included. commissioner nakajo. y hire the new trainai so the training captain will be hired probably at the end of this month te , just a couple of highlights. they had a strong in-service module. the chief attended and was veryntary of ir report that ended in july. another thing that they took on this, this month, in july, a joint exercise wihe and with some different federal assets for, emergency emergency

operations on board ships for the transportation of electric vehicles and this has a emerging threat. and this fire department was very aware of it. and we were lucky to have people come and, chief ovinstmental in, also developing a tabletopcise l exercises. and those will continue. i willge 36, i didn'ti didn't i didn't cut the pictures as much as i usually do. but if you haven't been onop of an aerial ladder in the city of commissioner feinstein, yef't bn aerial ladder, this is the view. so now yonay. this is what it ls like. and this is all from the h three preparatory academy for our our 49 members who are going to go to the suppression academy. so they're better prepared, page 41, the note that i will highlight was the use of our facility by napa's, police swat team. and this is the kind

of cooperation that we see fairly frequently between other city agencies. but eou fire deps and other police departments, and when you get your report on the new fire training facility, you'll see that our capacity for that kind ofnificantly there's a bunch of acronyms. commissioner feinstein's favorite, the f meeting new acronym. so thegial task force. the chief entered into an agreement with, california oes for the city to develop what's called the urban search and rescue regional task force. and we mentioned that a couple of meetings ago, and the onnues. so we've had members of our technical rescue committee as well as chief miller and captainnell preparing, what our plan would look like for implementation. our coordination with the state. and this was one of the first working groups. chief miller and i will attend a working group

tomorrow in pasadena to continue this relationship. inert our last section. with the additione 60s. so retired members who aree role, but inheir capacity, they have the bandwidth to really push the prograrw have a backlog of about 700 people who would like the training, and they wilhedefitely increase our ability to do that, chief kilo and i were were able to attend a,rsary celebration of thco singapore last night, where we were called out by name in the crowd for our relationship with setting up nert traiith the singaporean consul and commissioner nakajo was kind enough to invite chief kilo and myself to a disaster

preparedness mthe japanese consul, where we presented the same opportunity to the japanese consul, swiss philippine consul, indonesian. so hopefully that'se of program that will continue to expand, additional work that dot in this report, but has been of interest to the commission in the past, is our won autonomous vehicles. and in the month of july, i attended the autonomous roady symposium, where i sat on a couple of panels. and i will tell you, with commander jones from the sfpd, that we wereve ver well rr concerns were the highlight of the symposium, there were a number ofegulators there at the national and state level, and a number oferd we made someg relationships. and we'll continue those conversations. but i want to say that the chief's assistance with tis a city effort has been noted. and, it was a good have the mice

already lied to you and said i would be brief, i won't. so this is my presentation. so now i'm going to talk about this, chief. to thank her for thee chance to serve as the deputy chief of op san francisco fire department and, talk a little bit about the chief relionship and the relationship in the command staff is,stamt to the diversity of the agency in so, soys, we highlight a rsy of our experience and the way we came to these jobs, there on the outside looking in, i thought, there's■k our experie agency, we were together ramedic school in the late 90s. and if i saw you one time unl yobecame the deputy chief of administration and oversaw my role in training whee

weren't many. and for the chief to, to have faith and to have trust, and to trust maybe her gut. i don't ion k how i got here, but, that was that was remarkable to me. but what i found when we worked together was that this, despite those experiences and the way we came to the job, what we were both is absolutelyrue believers in this. and she is a you've seen her. you've you've seen the force of what she bris to this as the chief of the 24 hourst. she is absolutely a day, seven days a week,lesst'n a year to the mission. the vision, the values, and to the francisco and to the people of this fire agency. so she serves

nts a ceo of a half billion dollar corporation withr individual foibles and moments ofat, with 160 year history. and that is an. it's a, i appreciate t w that she has put into that job and the h has shown in all of us, and the strength of the command staff that had behind ue team that she has built. and i just wantou to know, we're going to keep doing the work, boss. we're going to ke keep on for you. and i want you to enjoy your time, please. i know you're not going for another couplewe, but thank you very much for your kind words. thank you. and if there are any questions, thank you so much,. ?

i hear that they'reaving problems hearing me. i'll try to talk into the microphone. so thank you so much for your report, chief. and, and i was, probably going to i was going to ask you about the more details about the logistics or , and the deadlines for that hiring and to that effect. yeah. the announcement closed on the 19th of the month, and i believe they've conews and have not announced the member yet who will be taking the job that had been shared by the training captain. it had been dual responsibility and it was consuming a lot of the time of their trai division when it was actually a logistics function and the airport was gracious and saw the need and filled the spot. well, that's great news. to lighten the load for, chief darcy. yes, a little bit, yeah. good deal. so at thie

rest of the commission? commissioner nakajo. thank you very much, president morgan. an very much, chief, for your comprehensive reportly, apr statements and remarks in terms of the endf report, in terms of reference to cd one, i made some statements in terms of the command staff and the command level and the department, i always seem to be talking about the experience ofe been here for 28 years, and i still don't know all operations or the ins and outs of the department. and cd one has thatility as you say. i also think that, again ts in terms of the command staff that this chief has formalized with all of yha there, one remark i didn't make in terms of the board of

with director corso and the rest of theom have gone through every one of those board of supervisor members and have advocated and fought for what we need, which is funding.nd ain't an easy task at all. during these last couple of years in terms of all of the trials and tribulations, in terms ofth chi has come home to our department in terms of what's best for us. so i appreciate that, and i want to be able to say that as well. and thank you for your service and your reportwell. chief lombardo, thank you. thank you very much, mr. president. ner frazier? thank you. chief it's a really inre report from beginning to end. this these photos are really upsetting to firefighters standing on top of feet of garbage is insane, s i'm

wondering if there's any accountability on the part of the owner.r, whoever's living there for those conditions. if our firighters go into that kind of a situation and get hurt, that just not rigo accountability i'm just in shoue held accountable, for those conditions. anyway, i'm glad to learn more about it. g keeping l that you were able to, given the amount of stuff and plastic. and it's just way. but i my concern is the health a our firefighters inside that that kind of place. updating us on ae meeting regardi vehicles. the evs around san remain somewhat dubious,good to but i know i'm i'm fighting the

tide, so i'm glad to be updated. so t]yha■)nk f that. also, outdoor fires are in the report, and i got an alert. was it today abou 4 or 5. that happened last night, early this morning■. so,i look forward to learning mor about that and how many there are. number of outdoor fires seems like there's more and more all the time. and they're not small little fires. that's also a veryation, not onr firefighters, but for ourre or it's near their house, or where they work or where t that's that's too many outdoor firesd e last thing i want ouchief and everything thatoring you said. and everything that you have done, i remember when you you came to my street, when there was a f call it a big firt

was two doors away. and i got to meet you and see how you e show in that circumstance. and it was a pleasure. and i also appreciate what■ you said and how you honored the chief. and that's. that means thank you. feinstein morning, chief. good morning just just to follow up a little bit because, and i'm, i'm talking about what at least we used to refer t as hoarders. you, i believe, describedm my, i mean, i this was horrific to me., i've seen

apartments, that where there was. d other word to use, but hoarding. conditions and, one where, when actually two ratsbuilding, scratching at window trying to get out■, and it's terrifyin. it's terrified me evenc many yei is, what do you. i mean, whocl o out the mental health of the person? who? w referred to? because, i mean, they may move somewhere else and start accumulating even moreuffi

don't understand how you d the, you know, the worry ofp you know, something catching fire. or if it's, you know, thi just posing a danger, that is. i mean, it was this was like two of the most shocking pictures, well, for, well, two, three,e four pictures all together. that i've ever seen. tell me what what can be done. so i wasn't trying to pruc i apologize for that. and obvwhatlyas becoms somebodye valued, you know, possessions up to that there tot it. this did require very

extee additional truck companies called, and it was hours and hours of removing burnt debris to make sure, as you said, there ul a rekindle. for preparatory steps, this r2 inspm comes in. or just accidental discovery call where it would be entered into our comp stem as a as a, a hazard. and the cad. so companin arrival would know that tns este a formalized method for addressing the mental health concerns that go along with these pe conditions. i can you refer to apps if conservatorship is needed. so i can speak to that a little bit. and i'm sure chi tom can as well. but yeah, we refer things

to apps. our folks i know i didn officer in theen but you know, ultimately, we get what we get when we respond to things of the, you know, prevention that is done by our department, we can't get too everything. and so we get what we get, and we rely on our extensive training and our really strong leadership in the field. to ensure that our are tn what they do andhat everybody is notified. all right. this is what we have here.relyn our strf our assistant chiefs and our battalion chiefs, and we rely on our training, extensive training

and, and to, to make sure that thate ut÷ safe. so again, we, we get what we get we get there, unfortunately, that's dertment and keeping this to a i st swed, like, you know,insane the work that's being done how r operations are. right now, it's just it's pretty impressive. so, yeah, we and we can refer to apps. i know,k e wr son, so it was. she's lucky she got out alive. but yeah, i lear, and i thank you for it. slipnd slide, i had not heard that

expressionyb put it on your your vocabulary list that i. so cherish, and just a n to me. almost as stunning as th, the 200 foot ladder that you ofr something wanted me to go up, that wasr. it's never going to happen, it was fun to look up, but that was about it, but i do to commend you on the report. we, you know, we're getting all the vitals that we need here, and i think that'ps really important. and it's a very good depiction of all the things that, you know, your part of the house, so to speak■■f, is responsible for. and all all

your reports been, to be commended, and our, our very instructional for those of us that have, you know, what commissioner nakajo referred to, yokn you just it's going to be a constant learning curve for those of us that don't do it every day. and this is very helpful in helping with that curve. so i really want to thank youfc for everything. and it i'l see you at the next meeting too. so■j yeah, if you want to send your favorite youic robes, i can have chief kylo photoshop you into the ladder picture. and then if he can put me on top of the ladder and i can take credit for it. the answer is yes. okay. but i took one look and i said, yno not go. and i have to say, this was at

the training center. and, and commissioner morgan wasn't going to go. and then he did. nicest person, who was training folks, i guess on t, on the ladder kept convinced we're going to harness you in. i'm going e right behind you. i took one look at that thing trum completely. but i just said,, ls that kind of the theme of this meeting. life is short, and it's too short for me to go up that high ande . and other than splat. so, but it i, i don't i'm not at all sorry i didn't take advantage of theport this way, but i really want to commend you on this. and you know, commend everybody that responds to things like that,

that i, i got the alert to it, but it didn't mtion a■jnything about the nature of the fire. and you know, it just it just veryivof everything that this department can do. it's, you know, handled beautifully. and it is shockingo hats off to you, to chief steward and all the companies on scene. yes. yeah. thank you. yeah. thank chief lothrop. and i just want to reiterate that there greater alarms right, for july. right. so deal. so i was happy to hear that. and i just wanto at said to keep thata single alarm. that's great work. thank you c you all. i'm sorry came up, commissioner feinstein, vice president fisher. so we

have this badass picture of you to keep. yeah. we do. the two of youhi time, we'll hear from. oh. president morganl for if there's anylient r the rd one and cd two? sure. yeah. so is there any public comment, madam secretary, for the chiefs reports? i do not see anyone on the public comment line or anyone approaching the podium. thank you. okay. thank you. madam secretary. good morning, enkajo feinstein, vice chief. maureen. kathy jen hoover, commandhief of ems and community paramedicine. this is my report for july. so this is the report from assistant deputy chief of ems, tony malloy. oops, sorry to be usi y thing.

there he is, so for ems data, volume went down just a bit in the month of july, but we still had a couple of days with over 400 calls. so i think this is just a little bit of people on vacation and maybe not in the city, but we or or less theow that our call same and has moments where it does elevate to some, some, some significant numbers, one of the in that we wanted to call attention to in this particular report, and has been a change py that we calculate our survival rate carac arrest. in the lls that were resuscitated, the but that also included those that we did for traumatic arrests and traumatic arrests are a little bit different. kind of response and a different kind kind of survival. so we took out

those types of calls, those traumatic calls.body got shot, l from a building, and we took out those calls andeall at just the medical calls that we resuscitated. and so in the mo■wwhh you look at that, out of 121 resuscitations that we 31 of those, we did receive rosc return of spontaneous circulation. so that number is a g good number. and i think continuing to provide community cpr, hands on cpr, those kinds of trainings to the community will really help because that bystander cpr, aed, application at the somebody's collapse can be really critical in the time of, you know, their collapse. so we'rethwe ctinue tt j we treating people in cardiac arrest and how we arov medical n immediately really does result in more people saved so also in

july, every, twice a year, we have a review of policies and protocols with the san francisco emergency medical services agency. and those are revisions of current policies and protocols, looking, looking at w situations have changed in medical care and then those policies and procedures get changed. an opportunity in the department, as well her ambulance those revisions and then to make comment on them before they get voted on and approved and in order to better look at those, es and the changes that are being proposed, we've created a working group among member of our department to really look at those much more closely. we noted a number of, you know, errors that, you know, are punc,

you know, other kinds of grammatical things, but things that will then just tighten up the way that thoset and, and ged then get implemented. so being able to do tan having that opportunity, and for us to really play a significant part given the work that we do and have sort of the lion's share of the work change in thet thee approaching these policies way that our divisions are working together ior, also, we provided two ambulances for the 4th of july fireworks event. we saw nine calls that we received, that we received. and then seven of those folks were transportedl volume that we see with these eventand try to determine whether or not the amount of staffing that we provid saw in this year's events that we calls as we ended up having. and so we ezm always looking to provide

that feedback to the msa to be able t this is the type of support and the type of ing to need for the next year's events. and so being and provide that kind ofuú feedback will hopefully improve the amount of coverage, the amount of demand we see when the populations in them1se because of these events. we know that the likelihood of increased callill result. and so we're just trying to better plan for those able to provide the right amount of support. and that's not only for tt torovide when we provide some of these city sponsored events, we do provide larv like we support many of the parades. but when 're events thg from a private vendor, those are the ones that are going ems medical plan review by the msa. and they units that are available. but there's also ■$t does happen, right? it's not just within the demand, but also the people that

are around it. and then after thes at also impact our call volume. so we're trying to more and more be able to anticipate what that looks like and how we might need to suppord then the chief mentioned, and this is ahetl august report. we did have two of our memberse ur in a film through the black tenderness program. as the chief mentioned through del seymore and shavon allen, we all recommend, i think was reported in the report to have any of you visit the tenderloin museum, which was an amazing venue. the there currently is a great historical view of blacks in the tenderloin and the video or t fth our members were in, excuse me, paramedic gerald colbert■b. and emt elijah stewart was really nice. they representhedent. excy

spoke to sort of how they have as members of station 49 and working in the they bring to that community when they respond, so a just a very, very lovely event. and then we also talked to dell and he as the informal mayor of the te was one of the first paramedics in california in los angeles in 1971. so very cool. and we're looking at, continuing a to maybe come to station 49 and speak to some of his experiences as one of those first paramedics. on july 30th, i think that was the same time that we had the board of supeis recognition of the chief. so i was not able to attend. but station 49 hosted thepca, who donated a number of k9, airway masks, but they broughtheir

dogs. and then this picture you see on thea , 35 pound bunny, that's it's alexander, it's famous. yeah.exa cutie but looks like a heifer. so, yeah, but they visited 49. and anytime we have animals come to 49 or to the department is a great dayz#. and so these masks, though, will also provide life saving device canine. and i believe we have some small ones too. that can be used on cats. so thank you to the spca. community paramedics from assistant deputy chief of community paramedicine s a few r the month of july. chief mason of ourdgdministration was invited to speak to over 800 individuals at a webinar hosted by the national association of mobilent

providers. this webinar was focusing on funding and sustainability for nih and community paramedicine programs. he things that we're seeing as a challenge is because of the cls that we are going to be going to and that increasing number of calls we dmm■sed for not transporting to somebody to the hospital. and so b■éng create a process and a system that through medicare and medi-cal nce companies would be a significant boost to suppores programs. and so chief mason has been very front and center in rese this, participating in the conversations. and so being able to represent what we've learned, as well as from the fire department's p able to create insurancean really important. and so we're very proud that to provide that. also in july, we had a coua our speaker series. we had this month, urbad

ross mirkarimi, who, you know, was a previous sheriff and board of supervisor, he presented to the departmentrsheart program, which is the homeless engagement assistance response team. the hart program has a number ofat some out, and they deal with folks that are experiencingholessnessn alternative to law enforcement, and they help connect them with shelter, public benefits if they need medical and behavioso we wk with them also very closely. and it was it was just a very does. and a lot of theion toab priorities and a lot of the response are similar to some of the things that we do on the. and then thea report that i think we sent the links to by the new school of l,

and this was a policing projecty school of law, and they published a really inth on commd non-police alternatives. first response in san franc focused on francisco's public safetyystem and our sort teams, they looked at, you know, the number of ca we've gotten on, how we've changed the way that we respond to calls that are on the streets, as well as the alternative to police, tte in tt even in a little bit over a year, from june 22nd to august 23rd, that the street crisis team respo t 29 average per day and within 60 minutes, which is significant and very noteworthy. also,ur swat team responded to more than 3000 calls, most o, on overdose and over almostose ties accepted harm reduction

noted that in the time that we've created these street team, that the city has made some significant strides in non-police alternatincies. so, o do that good worko here you'll see just some from y and sort s, pretty much consistent responses that. sorry, consistent responses and continued good response times with all of ourwe did increase the number of suboxones significant as well. we continue to provide some trai t members and to remind them that is an alternative and an option that to any patient that has experienced the end of my report. i am not as articulate as my colleaguehee

chief and i probay more formal response later on, because she knows how i can. thank you. thank youhis point, e any, questions from myelmm, ther frazier? thank you. chief darren. okay. thank you. chief,i was really interested in and i highlighted when i readnon-polie alternative, successes that you've had a study that nyu conducted, i think it was n. wasn't it something wasn't this mentio i think it was mentioned. yes because i think i read a little blurb about it. so congratulations on that. and not only on beingfothe study, but also the results, the good results t hayoit's really something to be proud of. so good onou and all

of you who were involved in that, what was the, the other thing in your report that i read was the national association of mobile integrated health provi acronym. i think to me, 800 individuals at theiron way for urban paramedicine to be operated, acknowledged and developed. i mean, it's just you guys are on the cutting edge, and i think it's just wonderful. so i want to congratulate you on that. and if youore car seats, let us know, because that's something we should definitely have in our budget going forward for transporting kids anyway. okay. wonderful report. great. thank you. thank you chief. thank ve president morgan, thank you very

much, chief tong, i just want me comments on page two on the ems divisioncl assistant deputy chief tony welr it's suggested in comments that was made, there was some reference. and i say that only because i can't remember what it wasvisly, but for me, when i see, and when i seepid san francisco fire department market share beyond all the other important information, that's real important to me personally just to kind of see what it howon tae dynamics, because every one ofea narrative that perhaps the commissioners can learn about at some point. i'm looking at something that canrehat

information. market share speaks for itself, but it's really important for us to gauge, i appreciate you mentioning dale seymour. i think gentleman is an outstanding individual. i think that this commission or whateverclnteraction we do with mr. seymour would be healthy. and i myself would like to have some exchange with him as well. okay. i think it would bring a lot in terms of what his experiences and his perti active, the other name that i saw is i did not know director of the heart program, can you share with this commission when did that occur that he's been the director of this program? iee at least. wele been in existence for over a yearani'm not sure when he came on board, if he was with urban alchemyat, before the heart program. not quite sure. okay. and i just

respect to ross mirkarimi, identify him because he was my supervis formerly in district five. sheriff as well, this san franciscan. but, i'm happy to see h also in terms of the heart program oran, ems, six crisis teaha i know there's overlapping programs, and sometimes i get confused. and so when you say rossirkami the heart program, i think at some point, again, i'm leading to some educn if you will, where this commission can kind of see what's and how this all flows within our participation, so i wanted to say that as well. but thank you very much for your report. and i look forward to further information and all the good work that the members do. thank

you very much. thank you much, president morgan. mrfein i have one quick question here, and it's probably tr to my lack ofkill in reading certain kinds of computer ged information, and operating them as well, i was just looking at page six of your, your written report and, you kn, i'm sure i'm missing somethingooking at the narcan use from july3> to september of where we are. we're, you know, in midus i understand that number is going to go up, but it seems quite low. yeah. it did, but i'm not sure if that's just because we don't

have the rest of the year yet o, it had the number administrations has gone down that we've been tracking last month, as well as this month. we've been at 202, whereas in the previous months we'ven in the 250 60 range. and so know, if there's some significant change because of all and address the opioid epidemic and whether or not that's having a direct impact on the number of people who e narcan, we also not quite sure if the number of peopha have access to narcan as bystanders are ministering that prior to our arrival. so we're not administering as much o, the's t we're not quite sure howha this morning at 9:th today, i think the release of the accidental deaths, preliminary number from the office of medical examiner's, thisbut last

month, there was also a decrease in the number of deaths. so thes any kind of relationship between how much narcan we're giving and then the number of deaths that also are reported. interesting. and if i may, i, through the president, just jump in real ic y as chief, tong said, there is narcan everywhere now, andknow, we'll get on a call and. oh, yeah, we gave him 3 or 4 owhatever of narcan. so narcan is everywhere, obviously, we like to do the thf it all. so we'll, we'll see about that, but it'. so and the other thing i think an article came out recently about the weak fentanyl that's out■0 there right now, ad so, yebey you know, just a little bit of the's some something going on

with, fentanyl that's wr. so, you know, we'll have to see ift a role at all as well i see. all right. so we'll we'ljust need to watch this going forward, and see. but and one last question about it is yu arrive, to an overdose call and you're told that somebody has already been given narcan, be it by, you know, other civilia however they may have acquired it or is are these statistics just the narcan that thatrtment, your division? well, yes, it's the number of times we actually administer this is just department narcan. correct. administration. yes okay. all right. thathat helps me

understand. thank you. mr. nakajima? yes, thank you very much. one more question, chief tong, again, not for this presentation, but perhaps a later presentation is, and this is a departmental question with the recent sweeps and the tent/ñ sweeps and the campers out there near the stonestown area, i'm justondering what the effects are on those individuals who aren't going into shelters, who are moving somewhere else. the question for me is, where a whei don't need to know particul i wt the effect is. departmentally, what are we seeing? what's the effects at some future date? and again, it's terms of what it is. and i'll, i'll dialog withou ltle bit later once i'm a little more clear. but i think you understand what i'm askfo

all right. thank you. chief. yeah. we'll, we'll discuss that. yeah. i the effects of what this recent still relatively new. the changes, i understand. thank you veident morgan. and if and if i may again yeah, i just, looked in. it's 39 overdose deaths in the month of july. so that's quite a decrease. yeah.t's good. thank you, just want to. oh. go ahead, commissioner, just to plug for the tenderloin museum, which is an amazing, amazing thing that was pulled off by the of years ago with the ever changing exhibits. if youven't s really worth a trip down there. ea yes. and, thank you for your report, chief tongo commend, dale seymour for his work, in the tenderloin and all the other emts that are involved in that. and i just want to note estion, as far as the cardiac

, on most of the calls is it like, like 75% is drug related or is there a way, roundabout way to say that, you know, i don't think we've tracked that specifically to identify how many of the cardiac results. wen look yeah. because it seems like, theers ah here. it's kind of scary know what i mean? i was just trying to see the, you know, differentiate the difference of what's the drug related or whatr whatever, you know, just curious about that. but other than that, thank you for your ralleport. right. thank you. i'll hold you. president morgan, can you call for public comment? sure yeah. at this time, is there any public comment? madam secretaryt

online or anyone the. okay item recommending that the board ofnn supervisors authorize the san francisco fire department to obo dusty's fishing well for use in doing, mr. castle?ram. okay.you yeah. go ahead. good morning. commissioner. elaborate abo. s,e and planning here to speak on this next item, w approval to donate two ambulances to dusty's fishing well, which is the nonpro■6&■ that runs the city emt program that the department is partnered with we've done this before with city college, i belie the city's admin code allows for us to

donate surplus equipment to the greater good to serve greater public purpose, including educational opportues, and that's what we're looking to do. you'ree city's relationship with city emt? we partnered with them, the mayor's office and the office of economic workforce development, and it's been a very successful partnership so far, and as the department recs bulances, generally we retire old ones, ones that are of no operational useer anymore. and s case, dusty's ha through the chief, which the soon to be retiredto donate two ambulances to their program. for at as you can imagine, this is an education. coulde educational tool that comes with a cost that a program may neabwo we like to support them and would request apalf this item. and i'm happy to answer any questions. okay. thank you. mr. caruso. at this time,

commissioner feinstein, i just great idea. it makes it makes such good sense. it's a good contribution to the community and th ems work in the future. and i didn't ■j, you know, the letter that said dusty's, come on, dusty's fishing. well and i said? dusty'sh! fishing. well, what could that possibly have to do with the fire department!? ie resolution and said, this is just it's reay it's not just good public relations, it's really service. so, i thank the chief for signing off on it and think it's a great idea.thank you. motion.

yeah. any other statements from the commissioners? yeah, yeah. you're good. yeah, yeah. ask oni think i read somewhere the two ambulances were never used, or. been used. they're retired. they won't be used. they won't be driven around operationally going forward. yes, absolutely. all right. i got you. all right. thank you, mr. caruso. thank you for the update. yeah, they're safe though, right, mr. caruso 001, mr. i'm nakajo, action item director posner. ye s, to approve this. you entertain a motion to. i would, mr. president, to recommend the board of supervisors to, accept the donations or to, pardon me, president morgan? pardon me, president morgan, can you please callc coent now? okay. all rightalt.

the resolution, is there a public comment, madam secretary, for this not see anyone on the public comment line or approaching the podium. okay. thank you. so a mn the floor to recommend the■ of supervisors, to donate these two ambances. is there a second? yes, i would second it. okay vote i as well. thank you. and if i may, motion is unanimous. if i may answer your questions briefly ey are safe, but they are not designed to be operational for, say, drivers training or anything like that. and when the city signs over they release the liability for it and it's dictated that it is designed for educational training purpo stank you. i figured just wanted to ask. so thank secretary, item number six,mr.cm

possible closed session regarding nomination for appointment, fire chief discussion and possible action, cafo section 54957b1 and s.f. adminnd possible action more people fort as fire chief by the mayor. do i subsection a public comment on all matters pertaining to item six, including public comment on whether to hold item six c in closed session? yeah. at thisy,e no. president morgan, i do notmm line or anyone approaching the podium. okay. all right. so given the imminent retirement of

our dear c this month, and there will be a press■ç conference following this, maybe, hopefully everyone will attend, with the mayor. officially, commending the chief on her excellent service, the fire commission llise nomination. can you guys hear me, discuss a possiblenation fo, in san francisco. administration code and the brown act allow for the discussion to beeld in closed session. so there would be a potential motion to go into closed session if the fire commission votes to closed session. so, at this point, motion to go into closed session on thisove. i'll second. i, as well motion is unanimous

. we are now back in. open session. the time is 11:27 a.m. i think she said. so we're back open session and it's okay to madam secretary for me to make a report on the. so i read this right. commission may report any actions taken in closed sessind take action on whether to disclose information from closed session administrative code section 67.12, a and b. okay, so, so i'm making a report we're now in opn session, and we are reporting that the commission voted to make, three nominations for

appointment. in closed session. and to forward these nominations to the mayor for her consideration■. yeah. and now, s there, motion not to disclose, the he deliberations in closed session. i would so me. i will second, i vote, i. commissioner nakajo, how do you vote? motion is unanimous■. oka. item seven. adjournment adjourn the meeting. meeting isd and adjourn. all right, mr. moan. 18.

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department, she i did give her courtesy card to come in, i remember it s day, june 30th. i was with a friend of mine and fire fighter named anita prattly came up to me and we a didn't meet. and she came by the table and aslooked at her, i said hi o to my i could see she was super athletic. >> and she knew my friend and she hyowant to be a fire fighter, here's an interesrd-r■$ us. >> there was something about her that co with the punches and also give a few punches. she would be great i ■ogive her the courtesy card.itas my greatest achieveme. >> and it was something i saw

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of its treasures. so being part a department that represents diversity is huge and so important tome that we welcome everyone. anst face value, truly to integrate have diversity, have representation not just on the fire fighter level all levels in this department, all ranks up and down the chain of co it's huge and it's, stepping in as a woman of color aspart of the lgbtq community, memore than just myself, right. i represent more than just myself. but as a leader, other people in this department, other people in the community that at me and seeing that there is space for them. and so that is really creating space for everyone. >> when i first joined the

military, it was i had to be super cautious t oing. i was still figuring out what i wain i joined when i was 19, i knew i was part of the communnoaccep. my first duty station was loreho i was.and that's where i and being undethe umbrella of don't ask don't tell, and ha it was very rule. had you to re that you were following the rules you needed to dohiyo need today do. i was fortunate to ere when don't ask don't tell was repealed. you find people who are making a big deal about it, the next day everybody went to work like nothing happen. we were accepted and nobody

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my gender, my race, i was 28 when i decided to change my i'm 35 now just starting out in a whole different field. >> san francisco has a large ÷ population of lgbtq community in general and our department is reflective on that./s the one thing i love about the san francisco fire department, is we like the community we serve and we're making y that. so even our out reach, recruitment efforts, we're trying to make sure that every single person including the lgbtq community has an opportunity to become a member of our department. soz a subpoena officer, it's rt welcome my crew. that includes everyng member that is on my paras, i

better job. >> my dad s a football coach and he taught me to persevere and be committed and i'm showing that i'm doing that. i'm very proud to say that i get to start my career off as fire fighter for the san francisco fire department. and i'm proud to be who i am, proud to be all the colors that know, i love being a woman in mfortable with who i am and very secure and excited to come toor >> you know, one thing my mom also en grained anset our heart to and anything we wanted to do, the only thing it's my dream to be a fire department member being changed because of who i was and now beable to out and proud of who i am, it's,

feel it should mean something. >> it's important as a san francisco fire fi■v understand the community that we serve. it's important that our departme made up different genders, different ethnicities, different sexual orientiothe community that we rved to reflect the apparatus. >> i've seei've seen the evolution of this department, i've seen it change througe yea. we're in a better place than we were many years ago. continue to evolve. i'm really hopeful for do smart, determined, lead with heart and i'm hopeful for our t going forward. >> we're your department. we're you and that,

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san francisco most famous of 15s pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small in were couriers fisherman that will come in to rest and but at time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold

rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here start a new life. >> y 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships bay and left town in of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map offrancisco h grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but bow t it was a long affair and the

first turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to thatalso. but by the late 1880s we needed somethingr than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry buildi i would say 800 thousandor apartment in san francisco they thought that was a ferry building had a competition to an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans fortse building i wanted it wider,

there is none tonight. hatctually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completednd but claim and became fully befe 1898 and first carriags for the primary mode of transportation but market was built up for serve tram■w lines and streetcars could go up to the to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisrm area. and then the equ hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once

the facadef the tower. and 80 percent of the ci would not survive t buildings collapsed the streets budges trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera were a mess the streets were torn up a really, really wanted to have a pular they were on top of that but two week earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty conov tram

system wanted electrical cars v] the earthquake gave them to chance to how electrical to rebuild. side ferry use was y increasing for international exhibition in 1950 and peopl didn't realize how much of a community center the fer it was the center for the upper level of ferry building was gathering place. also whenever there was ae pi world war two had a on market street and the ferry building would

have banners and to give you an ideato e citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place hay e busiest translation place in the world how people got around■k dependent on that in 1915 of an that was the year ofurnational exposition 18 million■ivinin san francisco and that was supposedly to cra of panama differential butusinee and2 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard

by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught douba mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i was that on the ferry th gs wanted to smoke their pipes and taking offheir masks and getting from trouble so two woulduled away. >> the way the was originally built the lwithhs used for take it off lunge storage. floor was where passengers offloaded and

all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that i interesting point to talk about because such a■n building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand peoplef the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and thes actually added in and in 1918 butit years to have san francisco bay the l port in the and the we need the iron that. the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles

were a pular item that people wanted to drive tel around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots t ferry usage staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry st everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a the day or for a saturday reall having the car ferry. hen the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was major stay and end up where our salesrc■' transit

center is now another way of tt city little by little the fer having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build dea objective never gotten down towers trade center in new york but aower in between that was a part of completely after the cars the tower

administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united intrastate free plan t plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that trough town he once the san francisco saw had human services 200 though people figure out city embarcadero free was dropped and had the great free to no where. which cut from the ferry building and our store

line and created in 1989 and u tear down the free. and that renaissance of ferry building. that land was developed for■s new ferry building and whom new barc handle travel and needed a concept for e buding didn't want- that was when aeloped for thew4 liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a hugedribbled adg and after the earthquake had a shove of revise

the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feelt by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to surface. >> có

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