what we did as a state. we told them -- right hon. i think that we all recognize that there are skill sets that certain organizations have fought. we have to connect those stocks. i think that the government is thinking more about that now. we have a revolving situation in who we talked to and when we reach out. at least for the good thing is that the bureaucracy part of that phase -- the political part might change, but the folks in the down-system, there is a foundation for that. if we have a conference on something like that, we need to look at how the communication will work.

supports public safety, clearly. who is not part of that conversation that could be part of a conversation? when companies become involved, it helped to solve problems. typically they're very willing, but perhaps we have not asked the right company yet. >> who should take that book? >> we need to take it. >> the governor. let's all right. >> thank you. -- >> all right. >> thank you. [laughter] maybe it is a part of the next

table top that we do. i think that is a good exercise. >> ms. kowalski? >> we need to continue to plan. as we were talking about here stories, they change every time. every event is different. humans are different. every time is enacted, it is a different scenario. so, there is planning, planning, more planning. learning from activation and making changes. again, our infrastructure, some of our hospitals in san francisco are seismically safe.

recognizing that we have planning to do. as for the private sector and the public sector, i think that we do a good job interacting with our public sector. we had those initial private sector relationships. food companies in the local neighborhoods. we have relationships for planning opportunities with them. i do not think we have taken that aren't and every time that this is, we've learned. >> what should the takeaway be? >> take away is it? there aren't the in your take

away means to be -- what can i do to create a stronger community? it might be in a larger scale. it might be by looking around your home and feria out and knowing something that is narrowing to a fair a stronger communities is more resilience post we have here today, folk

and we are all willing to collaborate, but we get it out. and if we can leverage this icahn about seven key. we have been talking about to >> it has been -- talking about. let's thank you so much for your expertise. we appreciate it very much.

i know that the general has a few words. >> i also want to thank the panelists and ask our honorary co-chair for fleet week, george schulz, to make some summary remarks today. as he is coming out, i want to tell you that tomorrow we continue. first the panel will be the role of social media in disasters. moderated by [unintelligible] and it will be webcast globally. we will have a panel on boots on the ground in japan. with the that, former secretary of state, george shultz. [applause] >> i speak for myself and everyone in the audience when i say that it that -- it has been

an extraordinary day. learned a lot. bottom inspiration, a lot of determination and gender by the discussion. last year i repeated a story and in those days we would do these exercises. you go there, you go there, and so one. not very popular with the economists. but you get it. we were called into a big conference room. to our lives? president eisenhower. roothe process of doing it is

essential. it makes you think through possible things that you do. you have something to work from. you think ahead. it makes you aware of the kinds of resources out there. and how they might come into play. makes me -- may soon realize that you have a lot of real responsibility for yourself. so, president eisenhower was a very wise and experienced man. i got from that, the importance

now, prove yourself in your positions to awareness and vigilance. i did not keep having to just to pay attention. this last battle reflected on that in many ways. it made me think that earlier this week, monday and tuesday, we had a meeting down in the sand kruger area. it was on what we call in the nuclear >> we can help with people.

>> people and the nuclear film cycle. join me. we had a group of economists that were worried about regulation. curious who wondered about public perception. i might say implication, and if you do not pay attention, it is hard. in the nuclear area, we had a submarine there. i heard about that from wrecked. i guess at last in the discipline of how you handle it. -- its last in the discipline of how you handle it.

use of the importance of people being alert. putting safety at a high priority. there are people that are completely insistent that you do it. his influence continues. and any rate, it was fantastic and a little bit scary to hear about what nuclear weapons people call broken arrows. unfortunately fella it did not turn out badly. gradually, they got better and better. you know, it underlines for me the importance of thinking through today what you can build into your systems. that is your fallback position, when something happens. the more connected that we are,

the more vulnerable we are. given that, if something happened to the connections and we insulated ourselves, we have been working a lot on distributing power. in the event of a cyber-attacks on the grid, have you fixed it so that there is some auxiliary power so that you do not get knocked out? at any rate, i am really impressed with what mike has done here, making fleet week a continued recognition of what our military does. then turning it into this effort to think through the emergency response aspects of what we need to be aware of. i might say that this process

led to a kind of bonding of the bay area, with of the military, through just taking us through and realizing what the military meant if we had an emergency. so, like, congratulations on what you have created here. we are all beneficiaries. thank you to all of the people on the panels. it has been a very good day. thank you. [applause] thank you, mr. secretary. now, we will have a reception over here. come by, have a glass of wine before you get out of here. thank you all very much.

>> director of emergency management here in san francisco. it's a flows welcome you here today to commemorate our community celebration since loama created us. i think all of you here in the audience if you were anywhere in the bay area 22 years ago, have stories tell us about the

earth shaking. i, myself, had a 4-year-old son who came running into the house to tell us mommy, mommy, the earth is moving. i was watching the early baseball game and hadn't even felt it. so it shows where my mind was anyway, i think we're going to learn today the whole approach to disaster recovery. we all know about preparedness and the initial recovery phases, but really we're talking about resiliency and how quickly we bounced back after this big one. we have lots of dignitaries in the audience today, our keynote speaker from fema. nancy ward who is our region nine fema director. we have cal e.m.a. here, mike dayton and his staff. chief greg sir and they brought

their whole command staff. we have many nert scroll teers. nert was a group that came about from 9/11 i mean -- shows where my mind is. from loma prieta. we have a lot prepared for you and i want to welcome our two chiefs up. joanne, would you like to start with a few words and then chief greg sir after that? >> thank you, anne, for the kind introductions. it was amazing 22 years ago this city in the bay area

region experienced the loma prieta earthquake. i was not yet in the fire department. it was about five months before i joined and like anne alluded to, if anyone lived here, they remember where they were. >> i was at a high school when it happened and all of us remember the frightening moments and the aftermath of loma prieta. and it's always fitting when we celebrate an anniversary to take a minute not only to commemorate that but to next on the importance of how the community needs to step up and assist the paid professionals, if you will. the san francisco fire departments, our respective departments are adequately resourced for any given day for emergencies here in san francisco. as you know, though, that all goes out the window for a large-scale disaster be it man made or not. that's why we always talk about

preparedness. the more prepared we are, the quicker we'll be able to respond and the more efficient the recovery is. that's important to partner witho agencies as well as with our community partners. i think our deputy and nancy ward representing region nine of fema and mike dayton, acting secretary for cal ema, very experienced people to talk about the importance of preparedness, the response and then the recovery. and to follow up with a panel of experts, it will also be very interesting. i'd also like to pay particular acknowledgement to the department of emergency management for all they do for our city when it comes to putting all our pieces together and departments together. under mayor lee we've worked collectively and collaboratively and there are a number of department heads i

would like to thank for your being here. just on saturday there were five neighborhoods. i didn't get to all five. but there were five who all held neighborhood emergency response drills representing over 60 neighborhoods, and the nert program which the fire department is so proud of was in response to loma prieta. about 21 years ago nert became a program, because what we saw during loma prieta was that we had a very willing community but what we didn't have was a trained and well-prepared community. so we had them take courses to talk about utility shutoff and fire safety as well as first aid. and so we are also here to obviously sell the nert program to the community as well. and participate in today's discussion.

with that, instead of having anne come back up, i'm proud to introduce the next speaker, also a native san from sis can and our police chief, chief sir. [applause] >> good morning. as the police chief said, i'm sort of the new baby police chief. i was here 22 years ago as well. i was just up the street in narcotics at the time and we were actually making an arrest in buchanan and when our boss told us we were supposed to come back to the station immediately after the earthquake we thought we were going to get to watch the game. we had no idea being native san francisco ans, we commented quote-unquote, hey, that was a good one. so it was quite a -- an

experience and sort of set the tone for what's come over the next 22 years. our strategy here in san francisco now with anne at the helm at d.e.m. and her predecessors and mayor lee and his predecessors and joanne and myself and our pred cesars as we prepare for every disaster that happens around the world as if it happened here. so if you think of what's happened over the last 22 years beginning with loma prieta and arm geten and y2k, we'ved that world series three times. one we liked. we prepared for floods with katrina and all the problems that come with water and on and on and on. we even prepared for tsunamis in a city of hills. so we really want to be as prepared as we can be. we are committed and dedicated

to being as prepared as any city in the country. and i think someone once defined preparedness as the amount of time it takes to get the necessary personnel and resources in place to recover from any calamity. and here in san francisco we are absolutely committed to having that period of time as short as possible. his time before becoming mayor, mayor lee was actually the chair of the recovery body to engage public-private partnerships, get infrastructure to be more quickly restored, and i know the p.u.c. is absolutely light years in front of where they were years ago with regard to layers of re dunden as i to make sure we have water and we just had fleet week last year where the military assured us the dal is a nation process via reverse osmosis is capable of

making sure we have water to drink here. with that said, we'll get on with the program and keep working hard to keep san francisco prepared. [applause] >> thank you chief sir, and hayes white, thank you both very much. we are filming today's sim pose yum, and it will be on resilient s.f.org, so if you miss part of it or you just want to share it with friends, please go there. it should be up tomorrow. i also wanted to say i forgot to mention the american red cross who are here today. s.f. card. we have lots of community partners here today. salvation army. we just have so many partners in the community, and that's really what it's about when you're talking about the recovery and resilience as i effort to include the whole

community and include our neighbors, our businesses and our non-profit agencies. so with that, it's my great pleasure to introduce mike dayton, who is acting secretary of cal e.m.a. here in california. we work very closely with cal e.m.a. and do so many partnership things. we could not have the success we have in san francisco without such a supportive agency in sacramento. so mike? [applause] >> well, thank you, anne, for that kind introduction. i'd like to thank you, too, for your partnership, your creativity and your team, so i'd like to give you a round of applause for your hard work and your staff in pulling this all in together, today. [applause]

>> so it really is an honor to be here today to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake that broke lives, homes and businesses, the loma prieta earthquake changed the landscape of this beautiful city, but more importantly, it brought out the best in all of us. in the midst of chaos, uncertainty and even death, neighbors looked after one another and helped each other turn off gas lines and shared water and food with each other and assisted the elderly and people with special needs. the fire department battled multiple fires on multiple fronts. the police department ensured order in the hardest-hit parts of the city. thousands of emergency responders from across the state provided assistance through our mutual aid system. the american red cross provided assistance and raised money to

help the survivors. we mourn the losses in the whole community and the community came together to recover and rebuild. during the rerecover phase we looked for how we could be better prepared and promised those we lost that we would be better prepared. since the loma prieta earthquake we have made great strides. we rebuilt the city stronger, and great strides in retro fits especially on the bay bridge and new buildings. and the catastrophic plan under nancy's leadership and the partnership with fema, we've enhanced some warnings and made a concerted effort to focus on personal preparedness and get message out residents really need to help take care of themselves and others.

so i am pleased to be part of the legacy and want to thank all of you for your hard work, time and effort to help others. so thank you. [applause] >> a little transition work here. jim? >> thank you. thank you mike for joining us today to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake. i'd also like to thank our community partners and those supporting our event. kqed served the people of north erin california and offer many different experiences and viewpoints, promote inclusiveness and respect human