everyone. >> the disaster council meeting. as many of you know we have not been particularly diligent in the last year in meeting quarterly which is what we should be doing and we take full responsibility for that. it's been very difficult to schedule. but we have our meeting schedule put out through the next year and i hope you picked that up as you come in and are going to be able to join us each quarter. we have regular meetings scheduled. i feel this meeting is extremely important especially in the light of everything going on in the world and certainly not what has happened in houston or miami but we have

had our own issues here in san francisco. i appreciate everyone's time today coming. i know you are all very busy people and thank you very much. i'm going to turn to mayor lee's chief of staff.. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is jason elliot. the mayor's chief of staff. i will keep my remarks pretty brief. thank you for letting us be here today. i know there is emergency planning and response. this comes at an important time because in the last few weeks and month we've had occasion to be at the eoc about emergencies and policies.. there have been a lot of things going on in the last few weeks

whether it's political protest and fire and what everyone did around victory prayer activities. whether it was the heat waves that we experienced and all the work that west -- went into that with fire and others. i speak on behalf of the mayor. very proud of the work that the city departments did in preparing for those events unexpected and expected. for the response in the moment, for acting professionally and heroically in the case of our first responders and 911 detachers and taking it on and learning what happened. we got criticized a little bit in news media for over preparing for patriot prayer and i think that completely misses the mark.

to any of your staff reading any criticism, i will say that's part of the business. but here in room 200 we are very proud of the departments that -- that did their job to protect the city and really organized really peaceful and powerful and inspiring marches. thanks for doing that because it's what makes san francisco san francisco. and from the police on my right, fire, dph, thank you for what you did. i know it's your job, but that doesn't mean that we should just take it for granted. thank you for all of your work and the hours you put in in 96-degree heat. thank you for everything you

did. this professionalism and the grace with which you operated makes us really really proud of the city. i will leave it at that and thanks to everybody for spending your time to come and participate today because it is very important. thanks. >> thank you very much, jason. as emergency managers we are constantly reviewing our plan and revising and learning from real life experiences. what jason just mentioned we are doing it now the and no one is perfect and every time we learn and activate and we just keep getting better. our first responders and police, sheriff's, and 911 and fire and emergency services have done an outstanding job and continue to lead this city. thank you for those remarks. we should say mayor lee

would be here, but he is out of town with the delegation -- court. >> we are having more fun than they are in court. so we are in the right place. >> all right. on that note you are going to hear a number of presentations. we've been very busy since the last time and we are going to give you very wide brush stroke overview of what we've been doing and then available to answer any questions if you have them. so i'm going to turn this over to my deputy director. mike day den who is going to report on our emergency preparedness initiatives. thank you.. >> thank you, everybody. we have been busy and we've also been as michael and john can a test to in leaning forward and engaging forward with the

private sector and non-profit sector. that's important. the first initiative we have for you today is planning initiatives and lisa will give that presentation.. >> thank you, mike. good afternoon, everyone. i'm just going to go over the high level for the plans that the department and emergency management is working on right now with our partners. first our 2017 earthquake plan update. this update is going to describe the key responsibilities, the resource requirements and the issues that are going to be addressed in the eod and doc level in earthquake response consent. we -- incident. we are going to include an action guide for you to look at action that needs to be looked at in 6 hours all the way up to 20 hours. this is going to have a resource table so it will show the departments of the agencies and

departments. and another plan is the essential elements of information. this is information we are going to collect at the eoc and doc level. this includes damage and injury reports, your status and response operations, what are your needs and current capabilities and are there any threats to safety and public health. we hope to have this plan completed october/november timeframe. we are going to include many workshops that will assemble our manage groups so they can vet this plan. the next plan i have up here is our disaster debris management plan. this is a plan that they have been working on since august of last year. so, we are working closely with public works, san francisco environment and public health, port,

recreation and parks by the end of this year. by submitting this disaster relief plan, it makes us eligible to receive a one time increase for federal funding for debris removal work. i looked at houston and the county's impacted in florida. for houston it's estimated that it's going to cost up to $200 million for the debris removal. in florida, the counties that have been impacted they are looking at debris removal to take up to 4-6 weeks. that gives you the idea of these challenges these areas are facing. the next plan is no. 6 which is the healthcare and human update. many of you are involved with that plan and i thank you for your participation on that. this

focus on emergency shelters, emergency feeding and health and human services we are providing help to address the needs of unaccompanied minors and foster children and needs like that. the other area we are going to include in this plan which is something new is our mass care recovery. we are going to now start talking about a shelter transition task force and when we get to the end how we are going to transition out of that disaster case management and will also talk about housing meteorology and financial programs to the survivors. right know we did yellow command exercise, vetted our plan this month. so, we do have some action items that we are going to take from that and look at it. an then the one thing i wanted to add is back in march, emergency management partnered with the mayor's office on

disability to create an access and functional needs on a workgroup. we met four times and this workgroup is going to be one of the major components to vet this plan in the appendices that goes with that. and we are going to start the mitigation plan to work with the office of resiliency and capital planning. we are basically looking at the natural and man-made risk factors that san francisco has identifying some mitigation strategies and resources to help with those strategies. and we have several work groups that we are going to be looking at establishing and right now tentatively, don't hold me to this but the workgroup is the asset development and mapping gis workgroup and master plan and grant funding

workgroup. preplanning has initially started. we are having a meeting later this month. but it will officially kickoff in january and hope to have the plan approved by october 2019. thank you. >> any other questions? >> next i would like to give you a brief overview of some of the exercises we have on the plate and have participated in. >> thank you, mike. good afternoon, everyone. please turn to page 4 of your report. we have about 3 pages of exercises. so i'm going to hit some of the wave tops. as we know lisa's group and others in this room that are in charge of our emergency support functions write very robust plans. in some cases we are not able to activities our plans and real incidents so we have to exercise them and update. i'm going through the work that we did in 2016 and 2017 thus far and where we are going for the rest of the year. if we look at the top, with ever the fleet week commodity point

distribution exercise. this is in annex to our fw 6 mass care plan with the national guard as well as the u.s. marine corp and a lot of our disaster and non-disaster are part of the presidio. we did a functional exercise on our emergency operations center. we activated our eoc and commodity points of distributions in the communities. moving forward we are doing biannual doc communications drill. when we activate the doc, it is essential that we can community fully and completely with our doc's. so we do that twice a year. as we move forward, february 14, 2017, lisa mentioned we are updating our ccsf earthquake plan and we are

having a workshop there. moving forward we are doing an exercise with the giants to look at control of the stadium. there is a conference that happens every april, last year it was april 4th-6. this led a panel discussion tabletop exercise at the fort mason center where we learned from new york and super storm sandy and we looked at the response and recovery which included very interesting sessions with our partners specifically around mutual aid around mass care and transportation. >> moving forward we did another communications drill. we did

a shelter tabletop exercise in multi support function 6 and a lot of work the human services agency is doing. after the tragedy in england at the ariana grande concert. we asked to help work through a scenario like that. that is a very good exercise. moving forward through 2017, an annual exercise program. some of our folks that run our public information in the city ran our workshop in f 16 which is joint information system. then august 29th, a couple weeks ago, we did an medical top table exercise. we had local, state and federal partners looking at what happens when a major disaster such as an earthquake in the first 96 hours.

the exercise guided program is a regional program. it is a hazardous materials exercise comprised of four lead up discussion exercises. this week we had the government officials exercise. the focus of these exercise are dependent on radiologic equipment. we learned a lot in san francisco. as we move forward we have the san francisco fleet week exercise program continuing. on the september 28th, we will be conducting a resource request drill which some of our department operation center partners will be requesting resources from the eoc and the eoc will be requesting them from cal. on sunday october 1st, the us navy will be landing a landing craft utility near pier 50 full of

assets specifically in this case medical assets that will be driven to the san francisco zuckerberg general hospital. the next day october 2nd, tents will be set up, local and state and federal in the parking lot of zuckerberg indicating that we will need help from our partners. >> moving forward we have our seminar for leaders october 4th and 5 and talking about humanitarian aid and disaster relief specifically looking at the refugee crisis hitting around our world right now. and we have the pier to pier medical exchange. the fly out and private and first responders will be flying out to a navy ship to discuss disaster response capabilities. october 2nd, the full scale exercise at

zuckerberg. ems ride alongs are part of this. it's important for military partners to ride along with our local ems staff. then we also have a summit or seminar during the senior leader seminar, a medical peer to peer exchanges. we'll have medical experts from local state, federal and department of defense to discuss best practices. moving forward of the exercise programs, there will be a full scale exercise on the 28. it's regional in nature. we have a play in the south bay, east bay and north bay. essentially the first 5 days of that exercise are looking at the prmd part of the hazardous material side. october 28th, saturday we'll be accessing the emergency operation center in response to a radiation

disbursal device and in november we are excited to help host a volunteer action and disaster and tabletop exercise. finally, we'll have a disaster service and how to move the workers into san francisco following the disaster and how we move them around and how we get folks out of the city that need to get back to their homes.. >> thanks, jill. any questions for jill. again, our training and exercise program is really designed to support you. if there is issues you want us to exercise or scenarios that you want to exercise, please let us know. the big picture is we want to identify the gaps that we don't have the resources for inside the city and where we will get those with mutual aid if we can't get those with mutual aid, where we will get those

from fema and private sector. so next, i would like to spend a little time going through some of the eoc activations and not to steal the thunder but we have on a strong pace to activate more times this year than last year and that's a combination of factors based on the world events and terrorist using cars as weapons. that's made us take another look at soft targets as mass gatherings and not only have we activated for those events but made more tabletop exercises to make sure we are prepared. >> the eoc activation is where lisa and we are bringing together. we have been twice as act have in the

past 12 months because of things like the 1st amendment and with the soft targets. sometimes we have planned events and unplanned events. for the planned events we can plan for and have all the agencies come together and even with the people that are going to be sponsoring them to make sure that key issues that some of our response partners may have are going to be addressed. we also have citywide coordination meetings where we bring everyone to the eoc and this is how all the agencies are going to work together and we also provide that to our electives when it's a significant event. like pride, we want to make sure they all know what's happening in their district. that document moves forward to when the event takes place. when we have unplanned events, we rely on all the work we've done and the relationships we have

developed to move forward. when the eoc activates, our information is coordination and we gather and disseminate it. we look at what's going on in your department and your city. as our plan pulls it together, we get it out in one of many ways. one that goes to the city leaders and the other way is we do conference calls both with the city leadership and also with all of our elected officials so they know what's happening when there is a significant event. we also are pushing information out to our public so they know what's taking place and what they can do of the 15 events they can describe starting on page 10 you can see how we have done each of these things in the different activations that we have done. as mike said, once the activation is over, we e

document what can be done differently and what can change as we improve our abilities. that's the opportunity for all the relationships to be developed ahead of time through the planning and exercise process to be sure we can be ready to address any of the issues that come up.. >> after irma, we got a call that they were trying to fill from the emergency services that they were looking to support florida. >> rob is our deputy

director. the emergency communications. >> thank you. so, i'm sure many of you are aware we've had some challenges with nine -- 911 and staff issues. mayor lee issued our -- >> in april. we were down to 66%. since then we've made considerable progress. four or the last 5 weeks we've been hitting over 80% and hopefully we are there to stay. we hope to achieve our service by the

end of the calendar year. some significant have been the effects of the hiring initiative that was really ramped up. it takes about a year to train dispatchers. other efforts that have been encouraged on by the mayor's executive directive have been coordination with 311 to transfer calls that are not dispatchable events and to get immediate staffing support. the police department has given us to police officers on light duty. we have some light duty people from the airport and from other sources that have helped us with staffing and so measures to boot. we are working on a public campaign which should be kicking off

very shortly and some other measures to continue the progress. as i said, i believe we will achieve our service goal by the end of the calendar year. >> thanks, rob. i will turn it back to anne. thank you.. >> thank you, mike and thank you team for the good reports. we have had a busy year. are there any questions for the any of the presenters so far? we are heavy on the presentations, sorry, but we have a lot to say. i'm going to turn it to naomi kelly who over sees the san francisco and recovery. it's all yours.. >> thank you, anne. i just want to start off with there is a report that heather green, our director of planning but i would be

remiss if i didn't talk about the life council. we have been meeting in this calendar year. it's been great. we have a renewed focus on restoration timelines and you know the purpose of the lifeline council is to have inter agency cooperation not with just our internal public sector utilities but private sector utilities. we don't want to be at the table for the first time when the incident occurs or we don't know who to call. it came in very handy when we had the power outage and we knew exactly who to call with pg & e and get them on the phone and let us know when the restoration timings would be up and running for the city. additionally, we had an inter dependency study about how we are dependent upon each other for power and very important and also focusing on access

fuel and roads which is important to get our city back up and running right a way and transportation networks. we at the last lifeline had pg & e come over the summer to give an update on their electrical capital campaign and when they are going to invest in their capital infrastructure which is important to the timelines and the timeframe to get it done and to get lessons learned from the 21st outage. city staff has been meeting regularly with the ultimates side, public works, puc, mta and just looking at their own restoration timelines and for capital improvement and our own city assets. we've been meeting with you and we'll be talking with you mike and would love to get a

restoration recovery tabletop exercise going when you find time. but we love the lifeline's council members love the tabletop exercise because we bring the coordination of the public and private utilities together. with that lifeline, we are looking to hire in a consultant to get through the restoration timelines for the city. with that, i would like to turnover to heather green , the director of capital planning.. >> hi, everyone, for those who don't know you i'm heather green of capital plan. thank you for the opportunity to

speak before this group. a brief note. you've heard now a couple times at this meeting about the office of resilience and capital planning since the last convening of this group. i think brian's first day he came to this session and since that time we have merged the office of recovery and emergency to one office so we are thinking about all capital infrastructure from a resilience mind-set and percolate that with so many of your agencies as we think of our future environment as we ultimately provide our physical ground for our residents and workers. we have this resilient strategy which you maybe familiar with and i will use that to provide some structure for our remarks. you can find that in full on our website at one san francisco.org. the first of our resilience, we made progress against all four of

the resilient schools and our strategy which was published last april 16. the first is to plan and prepare for tomorrow. certainly the work of this room right now is helping us to get there, but we also have published this spring the city's ten year capital plan which is a major planning effort which not only includes our financial strengths and position when we go to rebuild projects but when we go to look at what we need. it is a 3 (500) 000-0000 capital plan includes $1.1 billion obligation bond and the votes according to that plan is $150 million initiative to support and strengthen the seawall. as part of the capital plan update, we

ran and expanded our hazard analysis and checked the seismic, strength and our vulnerabilities of our public assets. we were at 214 and now we are at 239. since we've gotten the results of that, we are looking at the list to understand where we are dedicating our resources and where we have already a plan and where we need to invest next. that is on our website too. the plan in full. the second goal is to mitigate and adopt and retrofit. i'm very excited to have this meeting today on the major milestone in our soft to retrofit program. today is the deadline for property owners to submit to retrofit. thanks to the efforts of dbi.

i want to thank tom and lily for doing an amazing job and getting the word out and through other communications with the safety fair. that was very well attended. to get a sense, there are 335 buildings in this tier of the larger buildings. there are 349 buildings across the tier program, but this is the largest by far and as of wednesday which is the latest data, we have 78% compliance from the deadline today. we are often a state that will hit 80% or more by the deadline. worth noting that just in the last week, 262 applications came in which is more than doubled than the week before. it's been trickling inning all along but the movement as good. thank you for that.

>> thank you. we have also initiated a study in at all buildings in seismic risk in san francisco. this will be a 14-month study and the report will include recommendations about how we review and assess the structure and also non-structural and technical issues related to our tall buildings. goal 3 is to ensure how san franciscans reacts to an acute disaster and in regard to the disaster on affordability. our third navigation center opened and the water front center opened the shelter to help the

chronically homeless relocate off the street. and then our fourth residue generality -- resilient sf goal is to empower neighbors to first connections. i'm excited to report this time on the neighbors program, this is the most colorful part of this meeting, i think, is to give you a sense of what this program is about. it is run with great zest and caution through the neighborhood empowerment. it's a program that empowers neighborhood to host block parties that directly increases the resilience capacity of the neighborhoods by laying deliberately the groundwork for them to come together during stress and to provide the support that we'll need in the kind of disasters that we are seeing on tv everyday now. permitting fees are waved for this event and we provide

materials. residents receive a bin of disaster supplies directly from ecology and the enhanced disaster preparedness. the first were held back in 2018, there were scheduled to 35 and there will be in the bayview and this is something, it's no small thing. because you hear so many logos. they are city agencies and private partners as well, community partners who are helping to make these things truly accessible to the people. we are knocking on doors to the people coming together to help reach each other. >> thank you very much. we really appreciate it.

any questions? okay. hearing none, this is the time that disaster council members can make announcements and talk about what you are doing. i'm opening it up to any member of the council now. >> yes, tim? >> on behalf of the san francisco labor council, i want to let people know this is quite a fabric that the city has with departments and the city. within the labor movement in general we have been spending a lot of time with houston and florida and what have you, there is a lot of strings that we are attaching. we are sending nurses and united food workers are

sending food to florida and the fire department is here, but the firefighters and the rn workers and the engineers who know how to take care of the acute disaster and building collapse, we are all in. i don't know who exactly in what department or whatever needs to say anything, but if you can do more than engage just the head of the labor council to be involved in this stuff particularly in trades because we do have our fingers on this stuff and if we need any of the professions that we represent in the council fill yates and particularly the city departments to keep that in mind.. >> excellent, thank you. other comments or announcements? >> hi, i'm ms. rodriguez

with the district attorney's office. we spent the last 2 years preparing 40 members of our victims service team to be trained and practice in responding to crime related events. so any victim of crime events our staff will be nationally certified by the end of october and we've been through multiple citywide training to prepare and this year we are purchasing a lot of equipment on our side to help with counseling and support and long time recovery and any scenarios, we can work with victims of crime.. >> very good. other announcements? comments? >> hi, airport director. we have our annual exercise coming up early october. we do it every year. there

is an faa requirement done every 3 years, but we choose to do it every year. this year it is an active shooter full scale exercise. we'll be doing it 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. as that is the only time we have a terminal available and we'll be fully developing this and we'll have our rac activated and we'll have this during the time when the airport is empty. it happens. and we'll have a way in about soft target protection. we renovate that program and ballistic glass to protect areas and calm hardening plans as well. we are working on initiatives around those targets as the airport continue to be a much sought out target in worldwide events and terrorism.

>> thank you. >> ed reskin from mta. we are required by the state regulate or is to exercise certain security issues and to document those as part of getting our final safety and security certification from the state. so with a great participation from the police and fire departments, that work is underway and getting completed. just a kind of reminder especially maybe pertinent given that this morning as many of you may know there was reports of an explosion on the london subway. fortunately, what we understand is that nobody was seriously hurt. we understand 29 people were injured but fortunately not seriously injured. we are working with our local law enforcement that

there are no credible threats to us here currently, but just another reminder along with all the recent natural events, civil events, all the things that we've had to activate our eoc for whether airports and transit and in our streets that we need to remain vigilant about. >> well said, thank you, ed. director garcia? >> i will do it who -- without the mic. with concerning the eoc issues, we are going to have more so we are really going to connect with this labor stuff because what we are going to do is try to push out our information with the community organizations and work with the department of aging and basically the elderly who need somebody to

be knocking on their doors. and as we did with the homeless population during the weekend putting out water and checking on people. we try to do the same thing with the elderly and also with other population. during this neighborhood approach, they know their neighbors and try to make those connections and really try to reach out to people because our infrastructure is not ready for heat and i'm not only doing that as a neighborhood piece but even some of our employees and we are finding some of our employees in 90-degree heat. we are working first at neighborhood safety and also looking at our own staff safety as we are going down this road. i want to thank you for the coordination around this. i believe this is new territory for us and we are looking at the profits and the efforts around this.

>> michael, from san francisco council. we use cautions put out by the department of public health and we have 2500 new subscribers and we have -- we are able to design those at the cooling station. given more lead time and other things with facilities that might be good. >> thank you.. >> it's very clear as we move forward in our planning and exercising that we, the city, can't do this by ourselves unless our partners like inner faith community and

boma and salvation army and the red cross that it really takes a whole team to be able to have an effective response. other council members, and there will be time for public comment. yes, fire? >> good afternoon, everyone. mark gonzalez at the operations. tim, i can hook you up with my director, chief, regarding building collapse. that will be necessary in case of an earthquake. i would like to share from the 1989 earthquake and will share that after the meeting was about equipped relief rigs. when we have our recall depending on how many positions there are, we'll call maybe the half of the workforce. what they experienced that day, everyone came on. we didn't have enough rigs. we have about 60 right now.

we need somewhere to put them. in the coming years we'll have more places to put them where there will be station 49. we would like to get that done. as far as the ignition points as well, this accounts for the lifeline. they are more modernized since 1989. we need to evaluate how many ignition points there are. >> chris connors with the san francisco zoo. just returned from the national aquarium conference in minneapolis just yesterday. as you can imagine the big topic of discussion in zoos and aquariums in houston and florida.

as you can imagine all aquariums are responding and with manpower were no different. we have decided to dedicate a portion of our sales for a short period of time to the disaster reliefs for both the zoos and aquariums affected by both storms. we are proud to say that we have sent two staff members from the animal division and construction teams. those are both skill sets they are in desperate need in florida and houston. those will be heading out momentarily.. >> wonderful. thank you. >> angela? >> to heather, i'm wondering what resource that we can offer you or any director in the department in the city is the outreach advertising. for the neighborhood fest, we manage the advertising going out and the contract for cao kelly and

her office. that is something that can go out at least once a month for you. happy to help.. >> angela is the clerk of our board of supervisors. yes. john bows man. >> yes, we represent high rise buildings in san francisco. you should know how appreciative our members are to be apart of this group. i want to thank all the fine departments here in partnering with us. know that boma is a resource for you. if you want to drill our building, give us a call. this is or manager. he's done a great job on boma's rep. he's done a great job. on october 17th we have an emergency preparedness center we hold every year on low level terror events. if you want to come and learn about

what our industry thinks of that, you are welcome to come as my guest. thank you.. >> thank you, are there any other comments from council members? all right. that was a very newsy report back. thank you all. is there any public comment today? yes, ken? >> ken, many of you know me. i want to bring attention to a new york times story that ran after the texas and florida events that was a recap of disaster management agencies around the country. the main point was that these events had motivated and shall we say to a higher level of concern among disaster management agencies and states across the country. but i want to commend our city that following the 2005 katrina hurricane, that our former cao, ed lee, reached out to new orleans and established a relationship with new

orleans and recovery that has led to our step ahead to what i think the rest of the country is now motivated to look at by having our resiliency and advanced recovery planning. that's my comment. >> thank you very much for those comments, ken. any other public comment? all right. seeing none, i want to thank everyone for their time. i look forward to our quarterly meetings and thank you for everything you to do keep our city safe. thank you. >> adjourned . [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >>

>> hi, i'm lawrence corn field. welcome to building san francisco. we have a special series, stay safe. we're looking at earthquake issues. and today we're going to be talking with a residential building owner about what residential building owners and tenants can and should do before earthquakes and after earthquakes. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at this wonderful spur exhibit on mission street

in san francisco and i have with me today my good friend george. thanks for joining me, george. and george has for a long time owned residential property here in san francisco. and we want to talk about apartment buildings and what the owner's responsibilities might be and what they expect their tenants to do. and let's start by talking a little bit about what owners can do before an earthquake and then maybe after an earthquake. >> well, the first thing, lawrence, would be to get together with your tenants and see if they have earthquake insurance or any renters insurance in place because that's going to be key to protecting them in the event of a quake. >> and renters insurance, there are two kinds of insurance. renters insurance coffers damage to goods and content and so forth. earthquake insurance is a separate policy you get after you get renters insurance through the california earthquake authority, very inexpensive. and it helps owners and it helps tenants because it gives relocation costs and it pays

their rent. this is a huge impact on building owners. >> it's huge, it really is. you know, a lot of owners don't realize that, you know, when there is an earthquake, their money flow is going to stop. how are they going to pay their mortgages, how are they going to pay their other bills, how are they going to live? >> what else can property owners do in residential rental housing before an earthquake? >> well, the first thing you want to do is get your property assessed. find out what the geology is at your site. get an expert in to look at structural and nonstructural losses. the structural losses, a lot of times, aren't going to be that bad if you prepare. an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. get in there and get your property assessed and figure it out. >> so, what is a nonstructural issue that might cause losses? >> well, you know, pipes, for instance. pipes will whip around during an earthquake. and if they're anchored in more

numerous locations, that whipping won't cause a breakage that will cause a flood. >> i've heard water damage is a major, major problem after earthquakes actually. >> it is. that's one of the big things. a lot of things falling over, ceilings collapsing. but all of this can be prevented by an expert coming in and assessing where those problem areas and often the fixes are really, really cheap. >> who do you call when you want to have that kind of assessment or evaluation done? >> the structural engineering community is great. we have the structural engineers association of northern california right here in san francisco. they're a wealth of information and resources. >> what kinds of things might you encourage tenants to do besides simply get tenants renters insurance and earthquake insurance, what else do you think tenants should do? >> i think it's really important to know if they happen to be in the building where is the safest place for them to go when the shaking starts. if they're out of the building,

whats' their continuity plan for connecting with family? they should give their emergency contact information to their resident manager so that the resident manager knows how to get in touch. and have emergency supplies on hand. the tenants should be responsible to have their extra water and flashlights and bandages and know how to use a toilet when there's no sewage and water flows down. and the owners of the building should be proactive in that regard as well. >> so, george, thank you so much for joining us. that was really great. and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for joining us today we are going to talk about fire safety.

we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what

we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. where would we find the gas meter? >> it should be in your garage. everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. >> one of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench. >> yes. the crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so

you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. >> okay. let's go inside to talk about fire safety. many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little smoke detector and i see you brought one here, a carbon monoxide smoke detector. >> this is a combination of smoke and carbon monoxide detector. they are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. if gas appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively. >> this is a battery powered? >> this is a battery powered

and it has a 10 year battery life. a lot of times you may have one or the other. if you put in just a carbon monoxide detector, it's important to have one of these too. every house should have a fire extinguisher, yes. >> one thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. what would you recommend? >> if you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. this kind of a candle, you wouldn't want it in an area where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesn't rollover. you definitely want to have this in a

non-combustible surface. >> now, here we have our stove. after a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook? >> well, i wouldn't recommend cooking inside of the house. you have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first. you should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine. >> here we have some

alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe. >> this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices. fire commission regular meeting january 10th, 2018. item one roll call. president ken cleaveland. >>