bedroom it you a combination carbon dioxide alarm and something about alarm and put that in the bedroom that takes care of of everything we recommend having a something about alarm in the hallway outside of bedrooms and its good to sleep with our bedroom door closed if there's a fire the smoke won't get into the bedroom and the alarm outside in the hallway will go off and wake you up if you sleep with our bedroom door closed have an alarm in our bedroom also, if there's a fire in the bedroom the smoke alarm in the bedroom will wake you up and recommended having something about alarms on every level of the home one in the bedroom and one outside in of the bedroom in

san francisco we have a lot of areas of the city that are densely populated lots of people living in one unit sometimes they use the living room as a place to sleep or we even seen cases of people sleeping in closets you need to have a smoke alarm and carbon dioxide alarm that's the reality here in san francisco test them monthly monthly if you can't reach it used it broom handle and if you have to change our battery the old style alarms embed and do that and the old style alarms have to replace those also after 10 years on all alarms when you hear them

chirping that means the battery needs to be replaced it is ♪ case of 10 year litigating up the battery - you'll hear a chirp every 45 seconds if you have a lithium based battery >> okay. thank you inspector. >> pier suppression in agreement buildings those are things designed to put out the fire so we have fisht and we have to make sure they're the proper

size and an annual certification tag that has a punch in it there are sprinkler systems this they have to be maintained and the proper sprinkle head ceiling clearance that are required in garbage rooms and shoots and storage rooms or areas and some corridors dead-ends over 20 feet the law of the land shoot the new codes are not typically retroactive but have legislation that passed last year for existing buildings and that is that owners will not provide information to the renters on the importance of something about alarms so that the people that live in the buildings 90 know how important to keep the smoker alarms in

working order or report it it is not in order we've seen the results of this many, many owners having building meetings to educate they're residents holding fire drills we've seen a lot of heightened awareness in the last couple of years i believe that people are becoming for conscience the fire alarms system in older buildings should be upgraded so this about get some of the modern technology and need and attic walks will be installed a couple of feet near the ceiling that will prevent the fires from spreading and destroying other buildings or killing other people or injuring people that is significant

passed last year unanimously so next slide is the egress in agreement buildings keep the second means of egress clear for a space can't say emphasis that enough doors and windows the affair escapes need to be open so people can get out of a fire don't store things in the hallway keep things clean so if there is a fire people can get out fire escapes need to be serviced serviced and operational if you see that someone has put something underneath with the deputy director ladder it you have e have to reports right aways we have people that love they open a new busy with a great awning in front of their restaurant and underneath the

drop ladder how is someone going to get out of a fire keep an eye on with those things let us know we're always seeings thing and writing those things up to be fixed air double cylinder locks not allowed if our exiting the second egress have to open up from the inside can't require a second key on the insides or combination lock or special knowledge how to open that door you can't say have security bars on a exit door without a manual release and proper signage some older buildings not eliminated but buildings that are you need to maintain the proper exit signage and keep in mind it

maybe dark when an effort ours to remind people that live in the building don't block the exits make sure there is a second egress and ingress minced in the part of the buildings obvious the occupancy load don't permit dangerous flammable storage we do have this phenomena called hoarding at dbi we have a professional to deal a house to gradually over a period of time work with a person to not included that impacts people in other units in case of a fire

maintain the roofs don't add fire loads and roof deck without a proper permit we had one yesterday tina is she still here remove wirings you saw the pictures electrical wiring don't do that see that picture properly maintain electrical wiring change it install with that a permit check it out and make sure you're doing everything right and prepare disadvantage to a wirings the chief electrical inspector has warning signs essentially sparc you see aspects or credibility breakers tripping or elements warm to the touch or hot that

would be a warning sign okay proper maintenance in apartment building do not change occupancies without a permit and install gas. >> penicillin without a permit and place combustiblecombustibl >> the property owner will be appreciative that helps a small problem from growing and costing more in the long term don't leave food on the stove or current unattended or candles or cigarettes don't over load extension cords

and don't disconnect the smoking alarm. >> so in terms of prevention and washers those are all good ideas have a periodic evasion drill so everybody is aware that you know your neighbors if something happens they've practiced and practiced it you will remember you'll know how to get out. >> the clear view the building numbers synonyms a tree or bush that is growing over the number make sure that a first responder can see the number light and dark how will the first responders know that is that the building if they can't see the

address of building left hand to maintain the fire safety items and it is a good idea to quack our proposed every so often once a year or more often hopefully twice a year to do a check building occupant should have is an escape plan and report the hazards if you don't get a resident call the department of building inspection or the fire department have the communities outreach programs they can help and you can report it u anyone's you can point out whatever the issue they made need help assessing the property how will a building perform on

the block in case of an events that's what we're trying to make sure the building systems will perform the way they should and an incredible fire department 15 hundred people that always performs well doing an incredible job given the fragile state of housing stock and then is issue of adjacent properties i want to mention that the day after thanksgiving that was i was in my mid 20s and apparently a person that the in an adjacent property caused an explosion in the basement and the fire spread and he was lucky enough to get out of p there but any in and

about was not that lucky so i never forget that so it is important to plan ahead remember these fires can spread from our building to another and be aware the egress when planning our capacity and report hazards promptly we have live operators standing by 5588620 and the fire department and call. >> monthly always provide our name describe what the emergency is so we can send the right resources and the exact address including our apartment number

added directions like the rear of building and the side, little contradicts would be helpful and a phone number where you can be reached 9-1-1 is one of the commonly called government agency numbers we get calls for things like maybe somebody a good meaning sgoorm called to say well, there's a bunch of fire engines and a fire that's something that is just adding to the call volume probably might be the 25 call if there are fire engines there be careful when calling 9-1-1

there is also 311 there they're a good rural for parking and other resources like graffiti, trash that has been dumped to 311 a great resource and leave 9-1-1 for all of us when we need an emergency. >> home escape plans in agreement buildings you'll see escape plans made up typical find them near the exits and elevator lobby first part of the plan is the exits marked by a clean doted line for a green packet highlighted in green always whether those plans are mounted on the wall ordinary to the building where you are you'll see a symbol on the plan shows you where you are and the

direction of the exit pathways be able to figure out how to get to the stairs if you have trouble finding your way to the stairs look for the exit signs the exit signs will have green arrows pointing to way to the stairs and when our on your way down the stairs if you're building has a fire last name you may have fire alarm stations pull the fire alarm before you go down the stairs as our leaving the building close the door behind you never open doors hot to the touch use the back of our hand save your passages for crawling and calling 9-1-1 starts off at the bottom of door if the bottom of door feels hot

you know what is on the odds if not slide our hand on the door if this is not hostile continue sliding our hand over the donor or crack of the carrier if it get hotter going up you know that is fire on the audio our careful if the door opens outward use the wall as protection if smoke and heat starting coming in the room lean back and close the door but on the hallway if there is smoke in the hallway crawl on your hands and knees you can feel along the walls if you practice have fire drills in our home and or thought about how to get out you

know how many carriers a stairwell on each side know how many doors to the stairwells so you have to feel along the walls can count and find your way out and once you escape once our out innovative the fire department you'll say your cell phones it is a good idea to keep the cell phone by our bed you can call us when you get out and even then if you're trapped by a fire and have a meeting place outside of building and everyone knows where the meeting place is a lot of times when we pull up to a burning building we'll see people standing outside and

they'll come to us and say oh, my mom is inside the house we'll ask for you know what the room number is and we'll ask you know do you you know if she was in the apartment and people will say i don't know. i don't know so it is a huge advantage if you can have a predesignated meeting place outside and everybody that you live with knows where the meeting place is when you get there found if someone is missing if they are you'll tells you once our out stay out never go back inside you remember the video all the smoking and heat we talked about carbon dioxide there is also hygienecy need the

same gas as in the gas chamber once our out never go inside leave the kroouk to us we have alters self-apparatus with the air bottles and protection that you seen the coat and the helmet that protects us we go down with the hospital the hospital is our real protection without the hose in a place that is rolling we'll not last long because of heat the hose is our protection the waters comes out and cools the fire you don't have my of that stuff if you go back inside you might as well be on mars never go back in the for people pets or things okay. if you can't get out and trapped by the fire the door was

hot and the hallway was filled with heat and had to slam the door shut try to make your way to a room that faces the street with an outside window stuff towels and create as many barriers between yourselves and the fires stuff a towel underneath the door and if there's a phone call 9-1-1 right aways you get our cell phone tells you what floor and room number what the street your window faces even if i see us outside of building still call us stay near the window hang a sheet or tear the curtain or your coat or a jacket something anything when we pull up to a building the

first thing we look at are all the was if we see a sheet or po pill to our windows will reach we have lots of ladders if you have a flashlight another way to signal us do open the window all the way if you open up the window all the way that will create a draft hot likes to go to cold that is cold outside outside of window if you open the window all the way the fire will want to go out the window just a little bit maybe a few inches to get air nose and mouth and hang the

sheet out the window don't break the window if you break the window you'll create an uncontrollable draft so be patient be patient fire doors doors will slow down the fire even older construction in the door is closed the fire will take a little bit before that burns between the walls we can be anywhere in san francisco between two and three minutes 45 stations strategically spaces throughout san francisco we can do that patient it seems last week it takes forever when you're in a burning building trust me we go as fast as we can stay on the phone with us and talk with us okay.

>> (inaudible). >> if you need to contact us you have a place where you see a fire hazard contact the fire department or 558-3300 and the department of building inspection at 5586220 and you, our website san francisco fire departments website is at sfgovtv.org/fire and the department of building inspection website is sf dbi.org/housing. >> san francisco fire department we do offer trainings on fire safety for neighborhoods groups if you have a neighborhood group that meets on a monthly or periodically and you want us to come out and do a

training we have a power point and we go over home escape planning and basically fire safety what to do if you discovery a fire smoker alarms and fishts and earthquake awareness and prepares we have a simulator it is a digital fisht training stimulater can use it inside didn't spray powder looks a fisht but out of mouth a lazer beam when you point the lazer beam on the where the simulator fire it goes out we've kwolg a lot of good feedback so we are here for you and bring anti pamphlets on fire safety from

the nationals fire protection association so the information we passed out and give is the latest and most reliable. >> (inaudible). >> as i mentioned we'll stay here for answer questions does anyone have any questions. >> fraubl thank you for a really complete presentation. >> (clapping.) >> and have time for a couple of questions and please use the microphone. >> excellent presentation thank you i'm a handy man and work for a lot of left-hand side and i replace smoke detectors can you clarify the co2 detectors i see best practices and forced air heating building with forced

area units what exactly is the code. >> okay. i'll take a shot at that in you have a hydro burning appliance in the building then you should have a okay. this is what smoke detectors or carbon dioxide if you have a hydro burning appliance with the building then you have a carbon dioxide alarm or an attached garage you should have a carbon dioxide or in your building protecting the sloping areas if you have a forced area heating okay. and that heating say like central heating and it burns gas a hydro burning for these air into the bedroom now you need

carbon dioxide in the bedroom okay otherwise let's say you have a steam heating successful i didn't old type of heater don't have a carbo san lucas burning appliance but have a attached garage or heater in the building that is a hydro burning appliance that triggers having to have carbon dioxide units in the apartments to wake up people outside of the bedroom is sufficient and like in the hayes valley outside of sleeping areas but again force air into each bedroom now you need one in the bedrooms and outside in the hallways too.

>> (inaudible) i think that's it. >> yeah. >> hi so my question he replace the city passed a number of new fire safety requirements that deadlines from january, march and july i went to the website recently and under the fire safety closure section have to sent send out a letter and the attendance that section is under revision so what is going on a new deadline are you guys. >> the deadline is next january. >> oh, that is and good have you guys seen the requirements quite onerous. >> none have changed. >> is there a plan or the deadline been moved forward. >> the deadline for the certification was always. >> i talk with you more about that. >> oh, very good thanks thank you very much.

a wonderful presentation one question you mentioned again things to do in case of a fire so very detailed the issues were wonderful i we're adjourned if we have had assess online for the detailed information that you mentioned if you break a window not good so because as you mentioned when there is a fire >> yeah. yeah, we can we're also looking to improve the website and we will do that that is our plan to periodically update you know according to the season like when the winter months roll-around our fire season for the city people put the heaters too close or

portable electrical heater too close to the beds or the curtains and fires get started yeah, we looks forward for workshops on the website. >> so it is flash fire. >> yeah. there is also sf - fire.com that is another website address so look for periodic updates yeah. >> you're welcome. >> should be the last question. >> thank you i learned a lot you saw me taking the notes i live in a 1912 building we still have the old electrical wiring i saw woven of the things you need to worried about is electrical wiring nearing the end of life

cycle how do i determine whether you know it is still being used. >> if you can give us a call we may refer you to the station. >> thank you sure. >> thank you been a great day and appreciate our kind attention and hopefully make that feel really worthwhileyou. >> (clapping.) >> i am a building inspector sifted and examiner i do field inspections with the department of building inspection today, we're going to thank you for attending our earthquake safety fair today we will run

you through how to obtain a permit and the purpose is that we're going to hopefully leave you with a better understanding of how to navigate the building inspection and get a permit all right. so we'll take a step by step approach here we also want you to know other regulating agencies the planning department that reviews plans permits, the public utilities commission the department of public works and the fire department and in some mayors disability and even need a permit can you get a permit over-the-counter or submit okay.

and want you to be aware the available resources so benefits of getting a permit the purpose of code is to protect the public basically and the code a set of regulations that provide for the minimum standard of habit ability and fire life and safety the code book has elements to keep the building standing and exiting and fire life safety and construction and sprinkler systems they're all regulations within the code as well as structural and seismic reinforced concrete and steel and sheer walls and such those are all engineered elements basically recipes in the code

books to keep the building standing the code provides for minimum standards for energy conservatism for heating and ventilation that sort of thing these reside verification that the instruction meets the legal standard in the state and local level getting a permit provides you with a record for your building for the life the building that conforms to the code since the work was done all right. so work not requiring permits the following a short list of work not requiring a permit tool and storage sheds epilepsy one square feet and projected roof areas can have a storage or tool shed in the backyard as long as the roof area doesn't exceed one hundred

square feet not build someone 10 by 10 will exceed one hundred square feet and fences the front of building excluding a corner building the front fence don't need a permit for a maximum of 3 foot high fence and fences at the rear of the believes the rear yard 6 feet high maximum retaining walls so retaining wall is the wall that holds dirt listened it or some other material without a permit 4 feet high without a surcharge we're going to hold questions to the end the

smack t surcharge platforms and walks not parts of an exit that are equal to or loans 3 inches if our on the first story and want maybe have dirt and want a little bit walk or may be make a small deck don't need a permit as long as thirty inches below grade painting and papering don't need a permit to paint the exterior or interior of the building i'll say if the paint was installed prior to 1979 considered to lead before you paint can get the licensed painting incarcerating with that so again moving on to minor repairs to interior sheetrock you have a hole in the wall and want to patch it you can do that

without at permit the exemption the call can't be part after a fire rated assembly a fire rated assembly it a ceiling or wall that has a time associated about that to resist the passage of flame one hour wall assembly difficult for apartments and ceiling to floor apartment building if you live in an apartment building have rated property line walls floor covering not requiring the removal of floor with hardwood and listlium - craig's replaceo

respect broken windows don't need a permit for glass only and work more - 0 electrical generally need permits with the exception of cover a plates around recipients and surface if you're not getting into the wall you don't need a permit to replace that fans and other plumbing basically stuck with changing our residential low flow toilets now if you have questions whether or not you need an electrical or plumbing permit

come to the building department and talk with one the electrical and mrounl inspectors if you need more information >> alterations so, now here we are you decided you need a permit and don't see the exempt categories the following is for an organization t c over-the-counter permit review you come to the building department just fill out an application and get applications without plans that is dry rot repair and limited to 50 percent for o or less in cycling front stairs repairs and decks and we allow you to repair them exactly the same way as you keep below the 50 percent thresholds and reroofing can get a permit

but installation is different window replacement replace the frames as long as they're the same size and location the garage door again, the same size as 9 and the same location and don't need plans for non-structural kitchen and bathroom remodels now the key here is non-structural we get a lot of remodels as long as you're not moving or removing walls when you move walls you need a plan for stucco and sides don't need plans and exterior replacement no more than more than a repair replaces the siding and the planning department will require pictures of that they want to see what our doing to the

exterior generally, the planning department consignments for the exterior of the building so does alterations with no plans installation of chorus bowls and plywood on the ground floor of residential buildings so chorus bolts holes our walls to the foundation for those excuse me - department of environmental health ahead of myself installation of anchor bolts and sheet on the ground floor plywood sheet is paneling that y put on a wall so the difference continue fly wood and plywood sheer wall their panels a plywood a calculated element that's why you don't need plans that is

simply putting in anchor bolts and sheth we don't calculate that out there the engineering plan and a notice of violations are generally people who get caught working without a permit or go over the scope of work generally complaint based they'll be a corrective action on is notice of violation and stays with the contractually

entitlements that didn't require a full set of plans like large buildings and a full set will be required at an addendum later on and also the premium projects as the name applies just you pay a little bit extra money and the permit gets reviewed quicker so premium permit premium price

that's it and so the permits review options over-the-counter permit review so we'll go over what you can do over-the-counter so if you can do that with or without plans come to the 5 floor of planning department some people review our permit applications and ask you questions alterations with plans they can review that on the 5 floor and review bid building and the in house engineers with disabilities assess for commercial projects and want to clarify over-the-counter review is based on being able to review the project in an hour or less okay. so that's how you can get

a permit over-the-counter one hour or less per division do an hour through the building fire department one hour planning one hour that's the general how you get over-the-counter and also we're over-the-counter permit review includes the memorable plan review and the fire department okay so with that, i'm going to pass this along to inspector who will go over alterations with plans. >> good afternoon thanks for coming i'm joe a building inspector i work in the planned review services an, an occ building inspector and accessibility inspector. >> today, we gone through a bit of information i'll take

over at this point with the over-the-counter review process when you start your over-the-counter review process your first stop after the first story at the information desk where you'll be provided