>> good morning, everyone. i see bright smiles on faces. can anyone guess what i do? raise your hand. what do you think i do?

jimore? what is your question? close. police officers wear uniforms. chef, wow. what about you? a bodyguard. what is your name? firefighter. exactly. my name is joanne. i am a firefighter. i came into the department in 1990. none of you were born. maybe your teacher was. i am the fire chief. i have been working as the fire chief for almost seven years. mayor gavin newsom appointed me as the fire chief about seven years ago. today is a really important day. does anybody know what we're about to get ready to do?

a fire drill. you are close. an earthquake drill. fire drill, earthquake drill. is the same message, everybody needs to be prepared. we're working closely to make sure we keep each and everyone of you, your families, your school, and your home is safe. the big message today is that in san francisco, we have to be prepared for an earthquake. one of the ways we do it is to prepare ourselves by having a drill. every october, is a really important month for disaster preparedness. in 1989, there was a large earthquake in san francisco. we learned a lot of lessons from the earthquake. [unintelligible] thank you. [laughter] there are a couple of people i

wanted to introduce. i wanted to introduce sncc hennessy -- nick tennessee, in charge of the emergency number. the director of 911 is here with us as well as one of my colleagues, battalion chief jose vella. we also have someone else who works closely with 911. i want to say that this is one of the best parts of my job, to come out and talk to the students. we hope that you will learn something about how important is to practice and be prepared. what you are going to do today is a drop, cover, and hold drill. you will then exit to a designated area. we want you to go home and tell

your families about what you have learned and prepare a plan for your own home. what the plan would be, how he would meet with everyone, and so forth. talk to your families and educate them. you are students and will be like a teacher to teacher families things that you will learn and practice today. would you like to say anything to the children? >> you did a great job on the first drill. i was here for it. let's see you do that again. remember to hold on when you get under the best -- desk this time. wait for the signal. i am very impressed with all of you. i can see why you thought she was a chef because you have been talking about food all morning. >> it is getting close to 10:21. there will be something under public address system here at school. this is a siren.

you will not be scared by it. every tuesday at noon, this siren goes off. it is a test of the emergency warning system. today is a special day. it is 10:21 on october 21. we're getting ready for the drill. the mayor is coming to say hello to everybody. we have mayor gavin newsom saying hello to the fourth graders. welcome to alamo fourth grade. you are right on time. we have a wonderful teacher in fourth grade. >> what does that mean? what do we do? do we start? >> not yet. i believe we're waiting for the prompt from the schools so that everyone can do it coordinated. >> the chief tells me what