>> this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices pick item one, rollcall. [roll call] >> the chief of the department will be here shortly. and deputy chief mark gonzales. >> present. item two is general public comment period members of the public may address the

commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the jurisdiction of the commission and does not appear on the agenda. speaker shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole, and not individual commissioners or department personnel appear commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. the last response by the commissioner of department department personnel does not necessarily constitute the support of statements made during public comment. >> is there any public comment that is not on the agenda, for items not on the agenda? please come forward. >> my name is steve. i am a fire chief for sonoma valley fire rescue. with me today is president of our board, a retired san francisco firefighter, bill norton, as well as another member of our board, brian brady

, and our administrative battalion battalion chief. i am here today to deliver a presentation to the san francisco fire department in recognition and a little more than a year ago in our community faced a fire. san francisco is one of the first and agencies to send a team in one of the only ones who arrived in our community, and performed admirably, heroically, for quite some time. it really saved -- it was instrumental in saving the downtown of the community of glen allen. we are here to show her appreciation and acknowledge the service of the fighting men and women who came up and helped us in our time of need to. what i like to do is present this to you but i would like to read this first if i may. presented to the san francisco fire department, the sonoma valley fire and rescue authority extends our most sincere appreciation for your

organization's courageous and unwavering commitment and the preservation of life and property in the sonoma valley during the fire. the firestorm took a serious toll and dirt on his devastation of our community, and it is because of the heroic action of your firefighters that this damage was far less than it could have been. thank you for your commitment and support during october of 2017. >> thank you very much. >> i will come down.

>> he does it all. >> one more. >> take care of each other in our times of need to, right?

>> we just want to express appreciation. >> they probably want to get out of here anyways. [laughter] >> there was a long ride down here. >> is there any other public comment? please come forward. welcome. >> good morning, commissioners, and chief gonzales. my name is john choi. i'm the president of the asian firefighters association here in san francisco. one of my members, doug may, is a member of an unassigned -- unassigned member of station two in chinatown. as per department policy, he is

senior unassigned and he is due to go to be reassigned to the airport. firefighter may, doug is one of the only bilingual cantonese speaking paramedic firefighters that i know. i can only count probably three of the guys or girls out there in the city. i apologize to chief gonzales that i did not e-mail you earlier about our concerns, but i am a procrastinator. i apologize. to me, it is imperative to serve the community as best as we can as a department. i have been on calls, working at station one, where i use my limited cantonese speaking, and i tell you, it helps the situation immensely.

so you can imagine, in chinatown , five -- firefighter, paramedic, doug may, is stationed in chinatown. the importance of having a firefighter that is bilingual. not only in cantonese, he also speaks other dialects,, which i have no understanding of, and mandarin as well. so my plea is to try to keep firefighter, paramedic, doug may , stationed at engine two or when time permits, if the v.r. spot opens up at station two where the department cannot find another bilingual firefighter paramedic to fill that spot, it would be greatly appreciated -- it is crucial to the service for that community. you can imagine in chinatown no

one speaks english. i grew up in chinatown, and it is critically important to that community. thank you. >> thank you very much. any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary? >> item three his approval of the minutes and approval of the minutes from the meeting on november 14th 2018. >> his or any public comment on the november 14th minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. what is your pleasure? commissioner covington? >> thank you. i would like to move this item. >> is there a second class. >> second. >> seconded. all in favor for proving --dash proving to november 14th minute meetings? it is unanimous. >> approval of the regular meeting on november 28th 2018.

>> his or any public comment on these minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? commissioner covington again class. >> i would like to move this item as well, mr president. >> very good. do i have a second? >> second. >> i see that chief gonzales had a comment. >> it was in relation to the next agenda item. i wonder if we can move it further down the agenda. that she will be here in a few minutes. >> okay. >> we have a motion on the floor at a second to approve the minutes. all in favor say aye? >> it is unanimous. all rights. we will jump over item four and come back to that, and move to item five. madam secretary class. >> item five is discussion of desirable qualities for the next san francisco fire chief. this is an opportunity for members of the public and to

provide input to the commission regarding the next fire chief. >> is there any public comment? i hope there is. please come forward. good morning. >> good morning. my name is shawn and i am the treasurer of the 98. i am here to make a few comments on behalf of the united employee group, s.f. 98. i know you guys have seen the letter already. i would like to further ring on we were hoping that on this process, that we would be able to keep it internal. we believe there are a lot of qualified candidates in our department to would be able to serve well as chief. we are all asking that we be able to move forward with this

in a nice pace where hopefully the new chief will be able to soon work within the budget process. we have a budget coming up. we have a lot of priorities and needs to be addressed, and if we are able to get through this process of interviewing and implementing achieve as soon as possible, that is the desire of our group. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, commission. i'm from engine 36. also a president of the sunnyside neighborhood association. i would like to thank the chief for her service to the city. she has accomplished a lot in her tenure and i realize there's only so much that any individual can do in their tenure as fire chief. and she certainly accomplished a lot. we are very grateful to that fact as citizens and

firefighters of the city. as we pass towards the torch to the next chief, i would like to see who that is take on a few things. i can't emphasize enough that we have an adequate training facility. it needs to be at least 10-12 acres. the reason why i say it so much is we need to plan for not only the current size of our department, but the future size of our department. some people project the population of the city will grow to 1.3 million residents by the year 2050. we need adequate training space to train all the firefighters to support that. i also would like to see a disaster safety training facility in that facility as well. not unlike the one they have at the college station. it is super important because when the next earthquake does happen, we will have collapsed buildings, and we need to train our firefighters, e.m.t.s, paramedics, police officers, and sheriffs, to adequately and

safely respond to a scenario, and it would be great for a part , munimobile, a caltrain training situation as well. i would like to also see the next chief focus on maximizing the talents of the people in our department. we have so many wonderful and talented people with amazing, smart, and awesome abilities. we have people who have degrees in law, in engineering, we have people who speak multiple languages. it's all about putting the right people with the right talents in the right positions, such as doug may, firefighter paramedic at station two for example. i would like to also see an environment in which anybody from citizen, to firefighter, to chief, creates an environment in which we can identify problems and offer solutions -- create solutions. we have so many talented people within our organization. nothing would work better to

empower people to take ownership of an issue and solve the problem. it will take lots of talents, but i think it will work well for us. i would also like to see us continue to improve the system. i would like to -- based on four things. testing, experience, education, interview, by an impartial panel , comprised of a number of community members and two fire officers from -- that is all i have. thank you. >> thank you. >> any additional public comment please come forward. good morning. >> good morning. i have been in the department for almost 20 years. i have experienced city administration and leadership and a number of different chiefs over that time. i think one of the greatest qualities that we would need to someone who has come up through the ranks and someone from our

department. i don't feel there is a need to go outside the department to find a chief. i think that we have a number of very talented people within our department that can make up our command staff, and our administration. i do hope that as you review the application, you take that into consideration. we have a number of people who have worked everywhere, started as a firefighter, a medic, a chief, all the way up. that is an invaluable education on order to lead and conduct the mission statement of our department. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good morning, commissioners and chief. my name again is john choi. i am firefighter. i work at station one.

i'm the president of the asian firefighters association. i am a cancer survivor, and a cancer fighter. we believe the qualities that the next chief needs to have is someone that is vested in our department and someone who is vested in our department is someone who is from our department. not someone from outside. this person needs to have gone through our experiences, and specifically supporting our cancer foundation, and other things is that this person understands san francisco firefighters. on the challenges that we face daily. the only way i can see that is through someone who has been in the department for a number of years, that we have worked with, and knows the experience themselves and experience the challenges that we face in this

city. the multitude of challenges. so i implored the commissioners and the chiefs and the mayor to hopefully hire a chief of department from within the department. thank you. >> thank you very much. any further public comment? please come forward. >> good morning. i am a retired san francisco firefighter and i'm here in behalf of the rank and file to support a -- >> did you state your name? >> sig. while in. i would encourage you to promote from within. i think it's really important. i was here when we had somebody from las vegas, and they don't feel it worked out for us. i drove into day to voice that opinion and give my department this supports. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker.

>> good morning, commissioners. have 29 years with the san francisco fire department. listening to the speakers reminds me of when the candidates came to speak to 798, and when asked, the mayor herself said she valued someone from within the department as one of the three criteria that should identify for selecting a chief in our department, and i share with most of my colleagues that desire that we should have someone who has come up through the ranks. paramedic, firefighter, lieutenant, captain, served as a vc or n.a.c. for a number of years, and demonstrated their ability to lead within our department so that they could then take that to the next level and lead. i appreciate the opportunity. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. any further public comment? please come forward.

>> good morning, commissioners, good morning chief. i am steve mcguire. i'm a lieutenant. i have -- i am in my 21st year i'm also a native san franciscan and still a current resident of san francisco. i speak as a firefighter, and as a resident of this city. i would like to speak about the qualifications of our future chief. i would also like to congratulate joanne hayes light on her career, and i reflect right now upon her employment as an irish american. it a great honor to see someone of irish descent to be elected chief of the san francisco fire department. i also think -- think as a female, it sent a very good message to have valued female firefighters are in this department. and it is that sort of thing that we should take into account in consideration of who the

person is. this is a very diverse city. we have -- for instance there is the mission district. we see the gentrification going on there, so we can consider someone of latino origin as chief of the department, just for an example. because of the message it sends. it sends the message to san franciscans, as it did to me as an irish-american, that we were valued, i think that having chief hayes white as chief for as many years as we have, sent a great message both as an irish-american, and as a female. i would strongly urge the commission to take that into consideration, the demographics of which that person might come from. also, i had the opportunity to work on the strategic plan for

the fire department for many years, and i am painfully aware of the challenges we have in the years to come, and equipment is the forefront in my mind. safety that goes hand-in-hand. if we have good equipment, we are safe, and a lot of my colleagues have stated there are so many people that have internally, from our department, have gone to bat so many times. i recall when we were having a crisis -- i will finish up. that is it. consider hiring from within. thank you. >> thank you. any additional public comment on this item? please come forward.

>> good morning, commissioners. adam wanted to, firefighter at station seven and director of local 798. a couple of things i wanted to emphasize. i think it is really important, as it has been over chief hayes white cha-cha-cha near to have a chief coming up over the ranks. familiar with our department and familiar with our city. this will be an important time of transition on the labour and management side going forward the next couple of years. we will have a new president of local 798, i'm very happy to see him step into that role. you will have an opportunity to build a fresh relationship with a new chief from the get go and i think it would be good if both sides had some familiarity with themselves that build a productive labour-management relationship within our department. we won't agree on anything. it is inevitable. there will be conflicts. if we have a common frame of reference, it will make both

sides both productive and make us better as a team, able to serve the citizens of san francisco. and i would hope that we can make this transition happen as quickly as possible. that is all i have to say. >> thank you. any further public comment? see none, public comment is closed on the item. do you have any comments on this >> i would yield to the chief that if she has -- [laughter] >> i could raise my voice for her or make it higher. >> i will yield to the chief. >> that is a leftover. >> isn't that after this item? >> no. >> first of all, i want to acknowledge the chief who is with us here today. i want to thank you for your service and thank you for coming

here today and taking the time. i was hoping to hear from you since you had the experience, but may be you can send us a letter. thank you for coming today and thank you for our service to the city. may be i will see your name on the list of applicants for the job. i'm not sure. [laughter] >> sure, achieve, if you like to come up and speak, absolutely. the commission would love to hear from you -- sure, chief, if you'd like to come up and speak, absolutely. the commission would love to hear from you. >> the only comment i would like to make is that what i found in my years in the department was that one of the most importance criteria that a chief or any officer should have, that is to care about each and every person under their command and the other one is to hold those who

do not do their job the way they should, hold them accountable. over the years i have seen a lot of taxpayer money go to pay for lawsuits, and others i have worked with. i have some -- i've worked with some of the greatest people you'd want to meet. i also recall there was one individual that was in the leadership position that i never heard anyone say anything negative about them, but one of the problems they had was they were almost two nice and refused to hold people accountable. i think that is one of the main things that you would want to look for in selecting a chief of the department. it is unfortunate. but when you have a department this large, you are always going to have a few individuals that don't follow the rules, and they have to be held accountable to

protect the reputation of the rest of them and the rest of the people who do. that is all i would like to say. thank you for the opportunity. >> chief, i would like to seize on this unique opportunity and ask your opinion, for example, on an item that has come up many times before. it is at the back of my mind. how does the office of the chief of this department -- how important is it that they know san francisco? what is unique about san francisco that affects firefighting in the city caught the hills for example, the type of equipment that we use that other departments don't use. is there a lot there that we should consider? >> obviously, may be not so, san francisco is unique. in one of the things that i have found during my years in the department and as chief is that

there is a wealth of talent in the san francisco fire department department. you have individuals bringing up different equipment that you put in there that really understand the equipment when they are looking to buy equipment. as chief, i knew that i didn't have the expertise of the people who bringing the equipment here. i relied on them to really assess what our needs were. i didn't sign onto it, but once they proved it to me, are educated me on why we needed certain equipment, i signed off on it if i agreed with it. but san francisco does one of the problems i've seen, and i've been involved in a nationally, is when you bring a person in from outside, they are not familiar with what is going on. not just with the equipment, but with the personnel. they don't know the individuals. people inside, through the years

, have got to know individuals. when i was chief, i knew the individuals that i put in place that had discretion. and i will give you an example. i think that san francisco capturing the time i was chief, we had one of the greatest pio that you could find anywhere. it was my former boss, mayor willie brown tried to take him from me and got me in trouble because he refused the mayor touch a request and said he wanted to continue to represent me. that is lieutenant campbell. >> battalion campbell. >> for years, i run into people that still complement me. i'm using it as an example as somebody who came from outside. i knew the individuals i could

count on. i was able to put deputies and other individuals in place that i knew something about. when you come from outside, that can be a real problem. you can put the wrong person in a position and cause a lot of problems. >> got it. thank you so much. we really appreciate your valuable information that you shared with us. thank you to all the operators. >> i know all the commissioners are well paid. what is it, you get $10,000 a year to put up with all this class. >> no, sir. it is closer to $20 a meeting, but the parking is $26. it is a net loss. >> it doesn't cover parking. [laughter] >> i would like to also take the opportunity to thank all those in the san francisco fire department for what they do each and every day on and off duty to help the citizens. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i will call you and take you to lunch. i'm sure you have more stories i would like to hear.

>> i will bring my mother. may be we can get her to pay the bill. [laughter] >> thank you for your service. i want to thank adam for showing up. adam would, steve maguire, steve is -- you guys have probably been to station three, although he is at nine right now. >> eight. >> eight. they have a wonderful new backyard there at eight, in the backyard of station three, i believe it was the academy of art -- is at station one? station one. in the backyard of station one, the academy of art did this beautiful mural that takes up the entire wall. you will see steve on that mural appeared a little bit aged in the barrel. they painted him to be a little older than he is. but he is part of san francisco fire department lawyer. thank you for coming. i have known steve's wife for 35

years. since high school. so it is an important part of growing up in the city. it is an important part of this culture. thank you stephen. catherine, thank you for showing up. she is on this earth and rescue team, and was out there to make sure i didn't drowned that day that i went out and swam with the surf and rescue team, and she is also a one and raised san franciscan. i was at the rowing team at si, and i'm sure the other commissioners are familiar. we had a really good rowing team although i lasted a week. but her brother, mark, was an amazing roller. catherine, thank you for coming and thank you for your service. i wanted to speak -- i would like more information on the topic of the chief of the department, perhaps you can get the commission some information on this additional information to supplement with what chief gave us on what is really unique

about san francisco? i can think of a number of things. like we have the water system, our water supply system. we have cisterns, we have hills, we have wooden ladders, we have munimobile lines that are electric. what factors play into the uniqueness of san francisco are important for a chief to consider, that a chief from las vegas, or another city, would not have? caught provide some information. >> all of the items you mentioned hold true. we do have a lot of hills that we have to deal with, by building density and the type of construction, type five, and zero lot lines. so we have an aggressive department when it comes to comparisons to other departments we are aggressive to the point

of safety. i would not say we are hyper- aggressive but we do an aggressive interior attack and the reason why is we want to contain the fire to the room of origin or building of origin. not necessarily so it doesn't spread to further buildings. in that regard i would say we are unique. we are staff wise, we operate different than other departments the chiefest of something recently when he is looking at other fire departments and we are doing review some of their fires, but members are reminded that some of their departments don't have as much staffing or have a rig right behind you two or three minutes. they have to operate differently there is a reason why we have that many units that close because we need to get to the fire and contain it or we will have major issues. we make a lot of decisions based on that. always, citizen and firefighter safety is of paramount concern.

>> it would be nice to have, as we do our interviews for the next chief, and we will give you some time to noodle on this, we will have a list of questions perhaps for the next chief that we can consider. to be up to us it would be unique to someone that would know the office of the chief, over they would know the city or no important questions to ask someone. because we as commissioners, i have been on this commission for 12 years. i'm certainly going to have my own questions, but there is -- that could be questions that i am missing that i wouldn't want to miss. >> the next -- the current chief to give you that. i don't think it would be kosher for me to give them to you. not to tip my hat. [laughter] >> i don't mean that now. i don't need to do it now. i mean. [laughter] duly noted.

i think it is obvious what it just met -- meant. if you could have the existence -- existing chief make some interviews, it would be nice to review and consider. >> will do. >> i would expect we would not see these. >> i would not. >> that is it for me. >> thank you. vice president? >> thank you very much mr president. i wanted to acknowledge my first chief as a commissioner. with your presence and your remarks. much appreciated. i also wanted to address every one of the speakers, thank you very much.

it is important. i wanted to acknowledge the presence and the commission for having this as an agenda item. we had one previous meeting as well. we have a special coming up on the 19th, and i do believe, correct me if i am wrong, you will have an opportunity to do some comments that i am referring to. at this point moving forward, i want to thank everyone of you who came and spoke today. everyone of you who represented your neighborhood, your ethnic group, your perspective, being on the commission, i was here when we did hire outside, and i do recollect of the process that we went through, and do recall the effects of that as well. it is now part of the past. your messages are very loud and clear. for myself as a commissioner, i think this process of giving the

commissioners your feedback in terms of the qualities you're looking for are very important and for me as well to have 798 represented, but also president choi from the asian firefighters here to comment internally, tells me the word is getting out it is a different generation from the time that i went through this and the process, and this process of hearing public comment when it ends the process is overtime. with that, i want to thank everyone of you for coming this morning i encourage you -- encourage your colleagues to communicate with us as well. i think it is important that the commission inform the public as to what the process is, because as i understand that, and h.r. will guide us, what we can tell you in terms of public information, is a pretty aggressive calendar in terms of the commission. his comment on timely process is duly noted.

i think it's important for the public to know the process as well so you can all follow along thank you all for your testimony this morning. thank you, mr president. >> thank you. >> thank you. it was wise of you to put this on the agenda, mr president. first of all, i would like to acknowledge chief. i had lunch with a retired chief a couple of weeks ago. seeking his advice as i have sought many people choke advice on their opinion. people i respect, their opinion on what they want to see in a new chief and one thing that did come up as i always saw him as happy and smiley because he got to enjoy his few years and he gets to have his pension and everything. but i find out that you are known for your great sense of humour when you were at rankin

file, and he wanted me to know you always had that happy. to me, that is a very important thing in a chief to have a good attitude and have charisma and to be approachable. you are always approachable. i knew you when you were a rankin file guy active in the united employee groups. so i knew you before you became chief. and i was around when i attended your ceremony. that is -- so much for now, he was just every other single person that i talked to. he is the longest-serving pension trustee in the city who oversees the pension. he is one of the brightest guys with numbers. i worked with joe back in 1984. my first experience with computers and they were being

used to, how the voters were going to vote, and he had the numbers right down. that is when i started respecting his opinion on anything to do with numbers. he is the man. i did talk to joe about -- i don't know if you got here in time for public comment, you missed it, but i didn't see you at that time i would've asked you to come up. that is not my call now. anyway, and numerous other people, i spoke with, everyone is consistent. the united employees' group came back. i don't think there is even a remote person that suggest someone outside of this department or someone who has served this department not to be considered. so that makes it really easy on the commissioners i think.

okay, great. i was just informed by president cleveland -- are you a captain rank? captain driscoll, if you can come up and make a comment, particularly with your knowledge of the fire department with all the years of experience in finance eggs and et cetera. -- finances et cetera. >> i hope my late arrival has not thrown your agenda off. i do believe in speaking quickly thank you for recognizing my so-called experience. or my expertise with numbers. i do that work for the city at great length for a number of reasons. it was a result of getting involved in the union because of a strike we had in 1975. i was here for that. but the real experience i thought i was trying to bring to the department and to address

this commission, since you are concerned about what other qualities -- qualifications that you should look for, and the mayor should look for in a new chief of department. it is really not about numbers, other than you want to, how many people survive -- to quote one person who is very good at leading, add quite a character, with very successful in a number of missions he accomplished in training, and in real life. he said, it is 10% planning, and 90% execution. i think all of you have different degrees of experience managing companies or corporations in your own lives. however, planning and execution are equally important to the resources dedicated to each. they are all significantly different.

the key quality for the fire department, unlike most of the departments, unlike nonprofit and corporations calculi also deal with in terms of looking for talent, that is the other thing i do for the city for -- to great lengths. and the fire department, putting out the big fires is one of the easiest things we have to do. they are dramatic, and they are tragic. in an emerging situation, that is when things start to click. it is having to interface with all the other departments, depending on the city attorney human resources, all the finances, that is what strives any -- drives any chief of department crazy. the key thing the chief of department needs, and i've seen it ab and a road and disappear over the last 30 years, particularly and i have been around longer than that, is command.

command is not understood. if you do not understand command in the fire department, you cannot lead. if you are looking for a leader, make sure the person understands command. is not something you get my having taken a course. no command, no discipline, and the reason fires get put out well, and medical calls are successfully handled when people get to the hospital is because of the discipline. we all knew who to follow. >> thank you. >> thank you for your time. >> okay. i don't know if i have another thought here. i do have another thought. okay. i did mention at the last meeting how we select three people and sends them over -- we do the interview process. that is true. in the final analysis, the mayor

takes the person -- picks the person. we will do our best to send the three best names for each. if there will be more, that -- there will be more. the mayor will make the final -- and i don't think i mentioned it at the last meeting. i will make it clear. the buck stops with the mayor, and hopefully we will have a good new chief. >> thank you. commissioner covington? >> thank you mr president. i am so pleased that so many people showed up today because there was a feeling expressed by at least one commissioner during our last dose or after our last public hearing that he didn't think anybody would show up, and nobody actually did. but there were people here, and there are people here today. i want to thank everyone for taking time out of their very

busy, hectic schedules, with a top layer of christmas, and hanukkah and kwanzaa thrown in, so that everyone has such a short time. i want to be very clear in my thanks to the president for agreeing to put this on the calendar again. the last go round the notification was very short. this time we had more time to get the word out, and it is so important to me, as a commissioner, that we have opportunities for the public to come and speak to the commissioners directly, without a filter, without having to compose a letter on their computers and send it to us via our commission secretary. if one person shows up for

public comment, that's fine. it is important that people have the opportunity to have a full, open, and transparent process, and to have their voices heard. i am also happy that we have a gathering today because the stars came out during the day. with members of the department to have served a long time and are no longer with the department, like the former chief who is here. it is very good. i have taken copious notes. i have heard what everyone had to say, and again, i very much appreciate you being here today. >> i would also like to complement everyone who came and spoke today. very important inputs. we needed that. i like to thank the former chief for being here today and taking

the time to come and bring his big smile to our commission meeting, and his thoughts. thank you very much for coming today and thank you to everyone who did make comments today. we take them to heart and we will use them in our interview process with the candidates that have applied for the position. madam secretary, -- >> are we going back to age and four. >> we will go back to the chief 's report. >> out of item -- out of order, the chief of department report on current issues, activities, and events within the department since the commission meeting on november 28th, 2018, including budget, academy, special events, communications and outreach other government agencies in the public and report from operations, deputy chief mark gonzales, on overall field operations including greater alarm fires, emergency medical services, bureau of fire

prevention, and investigation, an airport division. >> good morning, chief. >> good morning. i respectfully request that i submit my report to you in writing. i have it here this morning, but he will give his report too. i want to acknowledge that we were downstairs recognizing the one year anniversary of mayor ed lee's death, a year ago today. i wanted to give you some incomplete but sad news regarding one of our active employees that was travelling into work today, and was killed in an auto accident. in deference to his family, not all of them have been notified. the word is getting out, but he was a brave firefighter. he spent a couple of days at the campfire in the butte county and currently a member of station 14 that i hired in january of 2016. our condolences to his loved ones and his family, and as soon

as we get more information, will provide that to you. with your approval, i would like to submit my comments and my report in writing, and ask the city to present at this time. >> absolutely. >> good morning chief gonzales. >> good morning. my operations report for november. we had one greater alarm during this period. it was on november 9th pick when -- summed across the street -- is at 5:27 pm. first it was just a tiny dispatch but it was a large grass fire. so they grabbed a full box and through the initial suppression efforts, it was discovered there was another fire west of the location. there was a second alarm to utilize the units for that fire. all you nested a good job, we also use our many pumpers on

that. chief hale was the commander. he coordinated both events very well. the fire was determined to be incendiary. other notable incidents, november 1st, we had to walk to a. two adults were displaced. on november 3rd, we had a rescue. forty-five montcalm street. a woman was trapped under a car. after a careful court -- careful rescue, she was saved and she will survive. or family is grateful for the department's worked on november 8th, we had a first alarm. one fire victim and one displaced. the victim is recovering. on november 8th, we sent out a mutual aid response dickie was mentioned in the last meeting. we had someone go to the l.a. and someone go to the butte fire they all did a great job. a very proud of the members he went up. part of what they did in butte

county was not what they normally do. as was mentioned before. they were going through the burnt buildings and looking for remains in helping other departments do that. it was a horrific duty, but they did it steadfastly. they did a good job. some of the social media responses -- thank you for helping us. also i saw the team in butte county putting out another fire, and other twitter posts. and from senator scott weiner, i'm grateful for the firefighters risking their lives for the communities burning. some of the functions in november, the black firefighter 's association. there was the fire youth academy graduation. many youth obtained valuable life skills through that program on november 30th, they graduated 23 new level one into the fields field. on november 30th, they had a water rescue drill and rescue watercraft.

other events, interns worked with the bfp fire prevention captain on an upcoming project to help promote community education programs. station 21, on november 2nd, provided community outreach to a neighborhood youth community group. e.m.s. assisted with equipping and deploying a suppression strike team. we had to takes a medical equipment off of some of our frontline rigs and e.m.s. logistics make sure we had sufficient backup equipment on other rigs. they refilled the stock, so to speak. there was a paramedic per diem program. was a program we put in place a few years ago to stabilize staffing of the ambulances. we have taken some of these into our permanent workforce, and we needed to tighten up the accountability of how many shifts they should sign up, and

also connectivity between e.m.s. station 49, and the assignment office, to make sure we are holding them to a certain amount of shifts per month that help stabilize our ambulance crews. we also got a large response from a recent general order we put out for suppression members to work overtime shifts on the ambulances. at last count, we had all the -- almost over 70. it is a lot of people who want to work overtime when they go off s.p. on location. >> new year's eve planning, they have been doing a good job as usual. >> also attached is a fire prevention investigation, stats,

they did seven outreach, prevention did last month. i'm looking for -- i have one quick powerpoint i can show you that lieutenant baxter put together for me. >> the background behind the letters there is the safety information we hand out to the public on christmas trees paired personally i told my mom years ago, i want to use a fake tree and she finally relented about

15 years ago. i don't like them, but that is the safety information if you will put them in your house. this is a safety fair. 350 served meals as well as they train for c.p.r. and did a good job on valencia street. the s.f.o., the airport and water rescue training did a good job. it is a picture in the middle where they house the boats. members in the black firefighter association handed out 20 meals. there are a lot of turkeys they are sitting the middle. there is a picture of our strike team his hard at work on the left with some of the rigs lined up on the right up top. all the safety packet and handout events. 500 were handed out in union square. the salvation army turkey carved event.

you can see three there on the left. she is competitive. she sliced the most turkey. [laughter] >> the middle picture there is the city college volunteers. they always do a good job. you can see the picture on the right, unfortunately they gave us hats. they do not fit all of our heads , especially mine. some of us have bigger heads than others. the chief was honored at this event. she has been to a lot of these events. they gave her a trophy. this being her last one in uniform. the dispatchers, we honor them as well last month. there is mary ellen on the right they do a good job. as i mentioned before, it is a very stressful job. that is the rescue captain on the right. she did a good job at radio for us. she is underappreciated sometimes. it is a very stressful job. here is the first alarm fire on market street. ever units did a great job as

usual. that was the car that was in my report. it went to the building. two adults were rescued. both survived. our ambulance deployment facility to groundbreaking was on november 28th. we are proud to get that going. mohammed nuru promised it would be done in 2020, so it is recorded now. save a life, smoke alarm awareness. and there is the e.m.t. class graduation. the chief gave her final class speech as well. here is the battalion three water rescue drill. a new job. i would crews again doing a good job on 32nd avenue. the pictures, on the top right, they are doing an overhaul and looking for fire extension. and is well, just for the public , we had to leave it up

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