good evening, commissioners. first of all, again, to thank you for chief nicholson for selecting me for this job. never thought i'd be so busy in my life. [laughter] >> i have been to lots of meetings and done lots of business moves and i'm happy to be part of this new team moving the department forward. i want to change things up a little bit for the report. i gave you a copy hence of report, and i will do presentation with the highlights of this report. we can discuss. i have colleagues who can answer any questions that i may not know the answers for. one thing i want to say, by working with them, i really admire what they do every day. from the feet on the floor putting out fires, we have a good time, we have coffee, respond to fires, and we go home these people were nonstop 24/7, even at night. phone calls, e-mails, 4:00 a.m. in the morning.

i do want to commend them for the hard wake they do every day to help this part of the house function properly. they do a lot of work. with that said, i will start with my report. we did not have achieve here for trading. this is a picture i got this morning. they are in new york, they are doing visit to the studies on fire and behaviour. they have major departments from the whole country out there. they are l.a., houston, boston, new york, san francisco, learning about fire behaviour, and hopefully they will bring some things back to west second work for us. not everything will work, but some things may work. sometimes it works here, too. i'm happy to report their having a good time but they are learning a lot. as you were there, some of you

were there, we had our citywide drill in the month of april, and the citywide drill not only helps the community get involved in training, but helps our department practice our battalion control, our earthquake -- earthquake preparedness for our system, and what we do with that is that we prepare our battalion chiefs working together, simulating a natural earthquake, in how we will work with teams together and how information will flow back and forth. twice a year we do this, and we are working to do more exercises to prepare us for that big one. chief nicholson is one of the major focuses on this administration. we are working on that. this is twice a year. it is a good opportunity to work with them in how they would work and hunting skills that they do every year, but also for us to play with them. as you are well aware, the academy is coming to a closure soon, and they will graduate

hopefully 44, and june 14th. they have completed all of our testing. they are completing the state testing, which is required for being a firefighter one academy. they started completing last week their online training, which was one week. they are doing multiple testing training in confined spaces which enhances their skills when they enter the academy. we hope to have 44 graduates on june 14th, and i hope to see you there for that special day. we just finished our second wildlife training. we did three in april. we did three this week. due to the high demand of members wanting to train, about last time it was 145 members, i expect 250 members will be trained this time around. we are adding three more days in june because of the high amount of people who want to be trained throughout the state. as part of the program for many years, i'm very happy to see the interest that new recruits are coming in and our training for that.

this is an exercise that the chief mentioned, but other things are mentioned from the airport. this was a big training exercise we did with the coast guard and multiple agencies on the bay area that came to the airport to help. it is great to have the cooperation of these agencies working together, which is what happened. we are planning a -- this building, and i want to say this project has been great. we are doing nsf p.d. combined drill with us, and working on her skills with active shooters. we will do that. later in the summer, they will let us do a high-rise fire drill this is a great opportunity to practice those skills, and having the opportunity to work with p.d. combined, and it is great for us.

our homeland security department has been working very hard on many projects. special events, coordination, assessor planning, tomorrow we are meeting with staff to hone our skills and start planning more exercises together, which is really important. they are also very involved in the grand process about securing grants. some of the special events, the last report, of course, our surrendering of -- some new commissioners were there. this event that we had on ocean beach, it was very successful. they also do standbys for the ferries and other boats that come into town. they do a lot of modifications for us. a good project that we are working on recently is the field post- disaster project, which is a project for the city when earthquake an earthquake happens

, how will we. [indiscernible] we are working on a plan for that. they do have continuous drills. they are continuing to update the emergency response plan. they updated the stations. there are a number of response procedures. we have updated and are about to give to the station our failure procedures, specifically step-by-step if a failure happens on the radio system, what we have to do, what channels do we have to go to. they are working on the mass casualty policy update, and with the mash -- mass casualty update on how we can support the system again, one of the grants we are working on right now is the a poor security grant which secures our crews that are out there and we are trying to give them grants, too. we are working very hard. one of the projects we are

working on is an advance sign up for e.m.s. personnel so the crews can plan their schedule better. overtime, ahead of time, versus the day before. it will help them plan a little bit. we are trying to figure out a way to make it happen. some of these things came up at the town hall meeting we had. we also doing a review of the open spot promotions. and the chief pointed out a couple of days ago, a few folks are coming. one of the things we are working on with the office is trying to reduce paper waste. we're going to more and more electronic forms. the forms coming up the chain will be electronic from now on. our goal is to reduce paper waste and make it so things don't get lost. this is the hard-working personnel at the offices. some of the projects that my support services division working on, we opened station five, a beautiful station. i think you have heard of that. [laughter]. >> station 49, you can see the picture of the palace.

we are making good progress on station 49. i wanted to show the graphic of that. we have received 15 ambulances and we are in the final stages of bringing a shelf so -- to be practical for them to be long-term producers the field. we also tested some new ramps to be able to use. the current ramps are -- [indiscernible] we have been working on the plastic hoses. we need to replace them. they have been working on that project. i really commend them for that. i have included a page that has the status of our apparatus, and

i wanted to show this because we are really working hard with the budget office to get it allocated for the year, and you will see on the chart, green is the ten years or less, 1010 to 15 is yellow, in 15 years is red we definitely need the apparatus we will get more this year, but it is up to the mayor's office that this is the need, they understand that and they are supporting us with that. i wanted to show this where you have an update. this is january 19th of what the status is of the apparatus. we do have the community outreach with lieutenant baxter and some of the projects we have been working on. some of the things he does every day. we have people to do hands-on c.p.r. and to stop the bleed. a lot of community engagement with the engine crews.

our personnel from station 49 working hard with many community events that they go to, schools, high schools, academies, they are engaged. there is a picture of that good day we had. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. before the commissioners chime in, i will ask for public comment off of the report. is there any member of the public would like to give public comment at this time? public comment is closed. commissioners? >> thank you, mr. president. thank you, chief for your report , your inaugural report. i appreciate it very much. very thorough. a couple of questions. one, have we engaged the grant writer yet? do we have a grant writer on board working to bring in grants

to the department? >> we haven't hopped on a person that will want to work for the department yet. we are working on that. there is a pool personnel wanting to work for that salary and the conditions have not been reached yet. >> we are having difficulties recruiting somebody. >> correct. that's unfortunate. >> yeah,. >> interesting. i mean, i'm baffled, actually because the police department has like 12 or 13 grant writers or something. >> no. [laughter]. >> they have five. >> yes, five or six. >> and we can't get one? >> i'm delighted to see you doing a drill at 333 bush. i know the general manager there it is an interesting building. it is residential and commercial you've got a good mixture. it will be an important building

to have that general drill with. i applaud that choice. this oppression feet up -- fleet update, i appreciate this report i think it is important for us as commissioners to know how our fleet is aging. when we talk to the board of supervisors and the mayor, they can better understand the need to continue to replenish our stock, if you will of engines in trucks and everything else, and this gives them a good visual as to what is beyond its useful life and needs to be replaced, because sometimes it is difficult to get that across. the city in general has a very small budget, quite frankly, overall for replacement of vehicles, citywide. i think the fire department's vehicles are really important. >> i agree. >> and just one quick question on the number of vials, what is

the breakpoint between good and not so good, and beyond its useful life in terms of miles put on our trucks and our engines. >> it depends on the station, the miles of the engines. >> assistant deputy chief tony rivera. the mileage is one of the factors that we use when we designate a vehicle for returning status, but there is also engine hours, pump hours, aerial hours, so, for example, maybe there's -- there could be an engine that has not a lot of mileage, but a lot of pump hours , they have been to a lot of fires, they have responded responded to a lot of incidents, so usually when there is an analysis made prior to removing vehicles from our fleet, the mileage actually is only one

component of the decision-making process, so we can't really say, well, at 100,000 miles we will get rid of them, we kind of use it as part of a formula. >> okay. that is very good information. thank you. >> that's it. >> thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you to chief the low for your initial report. i wish you much success in your new position. >> thank you. >> i wanted to know more about the class. there will be 44 people graduating, hopefully? >> yes. >> okay. at your next report, i guess by then they will have graduated. >> yes. >> if you can give us the breakdown of the class, how many men, how many women and so forth

and so on. that is always helpful to us. we want to maintain as diverse a department as we possibly can. also, i wanted to know about this particular warning sign as a tsunami hazard zone. where is that posted? >> we are doing outreach of the community that are affected. what we did, and what i'm talking about is we updated our policies for our crews in the stations what they have to do in case of a synonymy warning that is about to land. basically, where do they have to go, areas that will be affected, what stations need to be evacuated, and what they have to do afterward. but then we did a community outreach for all the areas affected, and the west side of town that would be affected, and we had members of the city

college going out and giving flyers to members of the community in case of that happening. >> i see. this is not posted, it is handed out? >> yes. >> okay. very good. >> i refer to that in the training update. our crews's policy was updated. >> okay. they were letting me know that they are all over the arena. [laughter]. >> i have only seen them in a few places, so i wondered exactly where they were, you know, and how far apart they are , that sort of thing. >> they are on the west side of the arena, some of the harbor area, too. we out reached and walked to houses and lift information in mailboxes. >> very good. thank you. along with commissioner

cleveland, i'm sure the rest of the commission, i really do appreciate the fleet update being so detailed, particularly as we are in the active budget phase of the year, so that this can be very, very helpful in making our case for the need to continue our fleet replacement plan. >> yes. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i look forward to seeing you next time. >> you too. >> thank you very much. >> an amazing report. it was an awful lot of work, and it shows all the work that all the different folks going down the line have done this past month, and as the new chief, you are joining the fleet.

under mayor lee, we started taking a little turn for the better, but it seems like we are slowing down, but doesn't seem like we are keeping that momentum going now, so i'm glad to see that you are working -- making the commission aware of our responsibility making another push. it is our responsibility. that we haven't seen these numbers recently, all of us know where we were a few years ago, and how getting some of the fleet replenished has happened, especially with the ambulances and the few engines and trucks, but this obviously shows how far behind we are. we have to get on with it and thank you for bringing it to our attention. good job. the one thing i wanted to bring up is i don't see chief ellie

here. the airport, talked about the 17 % increase that we have seen in the last report, it seems like barton the airport are picking up a big portion of that -- it seems like bark -- seems like part and the airport are picking up a big portion of that dealing with the homeless in the street people lounging overnight they are trying to vacate them, and they had one of the new stations last night showed how they're doing that with quite a number of police officers giving tokens and directions to these folks that we were getting off late last -- late last night to try and sleep at the airport. this is really getting to be quite a confusing situation, and 17% more in one year. that just seems like an amazing number, i can see why the

airport and the chief might have their hands full, too, trying to deal with it with the fire department. thank you. your report is amazing. i'll have to go through it in detail later tonight. thank you for keeping it brief. you could have sat up here for a couple of hours. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, again. the vehicle report was very enlightening. i really appreciate it. it is good to give them an idea it makes me wonder what other things the department is tracking, and along those lines, i noticed that the homeless, the nonidentical -- nonidentifiable address did not make it. if you could make sure it is in there, because even if it is not

detailed, i think it is really important to track. >> that report -- >> we covered that. >> sorry about that. i didn't mean to make you track that, at all. thank you. that was enlightening. also it wasn't mentioned, but the report, the intermittent leave of absence with pay, that was also really interesting to see. i think it is really important that the department is introspective in tracking these things because you may pick up trends that you may want to address at some point, so i really appreciate your tracking it, and i wonder if you could give the commission an idea sometime in the next two meetings of what other things that are regularly tracked, and if there are any things that the new chief is going to be tracking that wasn't going to be tracked before, because like the homelessness thing, i think it

is important because it reflects things that we are doing in our budget, it reflects asks of the mirror's office, that kind of thing. and we said if we are not tracking it, we are not not measuring it. if we are not measuring it, we are not managing it. thank you for your report. i really appreciate it and i love the format. >> thank you very much. i only have comments, chief. as colleagues on the commission have remarked, comprehensive report. there's parts of this report that have been new additions in terms of the current data. it is nice to see the office of the department physician. the photographs, as well. the differentiation in terms of the various departments, all of the commissioners have made

remarks towards the vehicles. i am a basic guy, so i wouldn't have been able to understand color codes with differentiation it makes it very easy. when we go through to the supervisors, it makes it easier for us to show data in front of them, to be able to back it up as well. i appreciate the competence and nature of the report, but i also appreciate the summary within the slide presentation to condense everything as well. at one point i thought with chief nicholson with the new command force, gorilla reminds me that it will take a little bit of time to adjust it. you both hit the ground running, took on a lot of initiatives in terms of that, and looking totally forward to all of the work in the future, chief

nicholson. great choices, great personnel. thank you very much. i appreciate your copy hands of report. >> thank you mr. president. >> madam secretary? >> item six, commission report. report on commission activities since last meeting on may 8th, 2019. >> at this point, i will ask the public if they wish to chime in on this item on commission reports. please approach the podium. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? at this point i see the vice president's name on this roster. >> i'm sorry, i did want to say that, you know, i am one of the commissioners meeting with the supervisors regarding the upcoming budget and the conversations have been very, very good and really encouraging i just wanted to share that.

>> thank you very much. i want to acknowledge all of the other commissioners. your name is also on the roster. >> i hate to steal your thunder, but before i say, i will say it was president mikado down on the shore, getting his seat wet will the drill. i was standing up in the catwalk , try not to bother anybody, but it was an amazing watch. you can see everything pretty clear sunny up on the sidewalk. i particularly enjoyed the helicopter. that -- and all those trainees jumping in the water and doing their rescues. very good, congratulations. it was well done. looks like nobody got hurt, i hope, and it was very, very worthwhile to attend. good job.

>> thank you very much. at this particular point, i want to make a few comments, piggybacking off of the other commissioner's comments on the search and rescue drill. chief cochrane was there. it was just amazing, and a privilege for this commissioner to walk with you on the beach to go up through the swimmers, and get educated in terms of how we deal with it. it is interesting because things have been modified in a sense that there were two rescue teams there, commissioners. we were able to witness the methodology in terms of a group that goes in and a secondary group behind in terms of the swimmers if there is some issues of being tired or the surf being challenging. that was just great to see. it was great to be able to meet the members of the surf rescue.

that coordination with chief sonoma, the sonoma county sheriffs, with the helicopter, it was nice to be able to spend it with chief cochrane and the communication and all of a sudden, the helicopter becomes a real factor. it comes across the beach. it was better than spider-man, that is what most of us talked about. it was amazing in terms of that. it really was amazing, commissioners, is the rapport between the department and the members from the sonoma check -- sheriffs and the enthusiasm. and the participation of our members to go out there and be a victim, watches helicopter hover around, drop a line, pick the guy up, bring him to the beach, amazing, and the enthusiasm afterwards and the debriefing was really, i was pumped. i am just a spectator. i just wanted to say -- no, i

think the commissioner has that covered with his abilities in terms of the water. i just wanted to say how much i enjoyed that drill as well. thank you very much for that experience. i wanted to report it to the commission. the other thing i wanted to report, i think this is more of a request, when we are able to do the high-rise drill on june 8 th, can you please send a memo to the commissioners so we can be part of that terms of timing? the last high-rise drill i was in was because the chief was still there and we were able to witness all of that with the active shooter that will be there. we talked about the visitors and the supervisors in terms of the budget advocacy, but i needed to advocate and thank olivia his downline and director corso for those arrangements and that data information. it is just wonderful to be part

of the change. i just wanted to comment on those issues. last issue is i was attending an award committee dialogue with chief nicholson. i know she is revamping a lot of the communities, but it is just a good thing that we are trying to move towards it. every element of community format, try to revitalize it in some ways. in some ways, the structure. the timing of this administration, and the timing and momentum with the visiting of the firehouse and the members is just a good time, it is a good feel. we have a good start going. thank you very much for that, as well. that is all i have in terms of comments at this particular time madam secretary? >> item seven, agenda for next and future commission meetings. >> i will ask for public comment on the agenda item number 7 for future fire commission meetings. at this particular point, in

terms of agenda items, commissioners, the only thing that came about was perhaps a briefing that is down the road from our city attorney. >> i would just like a quick update on the program. >> an update on the drone program at the next meeting. >> we will take that in consideration and talk to chief nicholson and see where you can put that on the agenda and get that update. >> it doesn't have to be a separate item. if you could just maybe mention it as part of your section. >> thank you, very much. seeing no other comments in terms of that, we will work towards that agenda with myself and the commission secretary. madam secretary. >> item eight, adjournment. >> any public comment on adjournment of item eight? other than that, i will need a motion and a second to adjourn. >> so moved.

>> second it. >> it has been moved and seconded. this meeting is adjourned. thank you.

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

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