investigation, homeland security and the airport division. good morning, all. am i the only one hearing a dog, or is anyone else hearing the dog? >> no, i heard the dog, too. >> okay. >> i don't hear it. i don't hear a dog right now, so we're good. >> all right. >> good morning, vice president feinstein, commissioners, sister maureen, congratulations on your new grand baby. this is my report to the commission today, wednesday, september 9th. i know we're supposed to have employee group los bomberos present today, however their

president, mariano alias was deployed yesterday to a wild land fire up near the bear fire. so they will not be presenting today. it is, as you can see, a crazy wildfire season going on right now. and chief wyrsch may speak about it more, but i know we have 41 members out right now at various fires. there are so many fires going on. and you know, it looks like we all woke up in mars today or something. so anyways, so let's talk about covid. so far, we have had 26 positive tests. we currently have 15 in quarantine. so we have had a bit of a jump. seven of those positives were

folks coming back from wildland deployment, so we're definitely seeing how difficult it is out there to, you know, we can't socially distance, but we are putting some practices in place to try to head that number off, including having our members tested when they come home. and then we are most likely going to be putting them in quarantine for five days. and then testing them again before we release them back to the field, since we've had quite a few, well, seven people test positive. so there is that. in terms of the economy opening, we are still working with other city agencies to move the opening of businesses across the city forward. i know fire marshal has been integral and critical to this and we're also starting to roll out a plan to ensure businesses

are following these guidelines. it's kind of a -- plan, because the city really does want to get some folks back to work to get money generated again. and we're doing all we can to balance safety and operational perspectives with the need for the city to move forward. chief tom is working with her team to get the crisis response team plan in place to roll out as soon as possible. i don't know if you recall when we spoke about this before the crisis response team will be similar to e.m.s. 6 community paramedicine. but it will have a community paramedic instead of a rescue captain. a community paramedic. advanced health care practitioner from the department of public health and a peer support person, likely from a

non-profit, but hired by public health. a peer support person who has either experienced homelessness, addiction or behavioral health issues, so that will be the team going out. and i know we're working with d.e.m. and the police and 311 to figure out what calls we will be picking up. and it's going to take us a while to roll this out and we need to get it right, but we are in the process of doing that. and i don't know -- i'm hoping you all got the event details for 9/11 that is happening this week. and if you would like to participate virtually, there is that option. we are making sure that those of us who do show up are personally distanced and the mayor will be in attendance at station 7 to

make a few remarks. i have, of course, another meeting to go to in ten minutes, a department head meeting at 9:30. i will conclude there and take any questions. >> do we have any questions for jeanine from the commissioners and public comment? >> that's right, thank you. there is nobody on our public comment line. >> president covington: okay. we'll close public comment then. commissioners, any questions for the chief of the department? i know i have one, but -- sorry -- anybody else first?

okay. please. there you are. commissioner nakajo. >> commissioner nakajo: commissioner rodriguez. >> i'm sorry, i don't see commissioner rodriguez. >> i turned video off because it's all static. i can hear everyone. but anyway, the quick question for the chief was on this -- on the remembrance, 9/11, are we looking for people to be there in person? or is it just -- would that be more of a hindrance or a bother and should we watch it online? >> you're muted. chief. >> chief nicholson: thank you. commissioner rodriguez, i think it's fine for you to watch it online. it's really what you're comfortable with. but it is being held virtually this year for the main reason of

covid, social distancing and no events permitted, so it's entirely up to you. and if you feel safer being at home, please do so. that is totally fine with us. so we don't need people there in other words. no, we don't need a ton of people, but you are absolutely welcome. >> commissioner rodriguez: okay. thank you again. >> president covington: any other questions for the chief of the department? i have one. i'm sorry. >> none at this time. >> president covington: thank you. chief, what about -- what seems to be an uptick in positive covid tests among our members aside from those that were deployed to the wildlands fires? what can you offer us on that?

>> chief nicholson: so, i know that there have been some community transmissions and we saw an uptick in community transmissions in outside world. and we saw that here as well. so we are still doing everything properly as far as i'm concerned in the stations, decontaminating, and so unless chief velo or chief parks has anything else in terms of that? chief velo, anything? >> good morning, commissioners. no, i agree with you, the community transmission, there has been some uptick. some members were related. the majority of the work-related came from the wildland deployment and that is community related in through the firehouses. >> chief nicholson: so that's why it's extra important for our

members to be responsible when they are not at home. and we've been pushing that message since day one. >> okay. thank you. any other follow-up? okay, and we already called for comment, right, maureen? >> yes, we did. >> okay, let's let the chief go to the next meeting. we may see you shortly. have a good day. >> chief nicholson: you may. thank you. >> next agenda item, please. >> chief wyrsch is up. >> all right. and do i have the ball, maureen. >> i'm going to get it to you right now. chief velo on standby, yes? >> [laughter].

third time's a charm. >> okay. should be heading your way. >> okay. >> do you see it? can you see the presentation? >> no. >> okay. it's not coming up. okay.

how are we there? >> good. >> all right. good morning, vice president feinstein, commissioners, chief nicholson, deputy chief of operations, victor wyrsch. this is my operations report for the month of august. that wishes to president covington with what she is going through right now. good morning, maureen. this is for the month of august, we only had one greater alarm. i think i told you last month, things happen in streaks. we went from six to one. so did very well this month. we had a second alarm at 77 to 79 carmelita street. this was acting assistant chief abbott's fire. this fire is still under

investigation. we have one minor firefighter injury. he ended up being okay. there was heavy fire present from the ground to the roofline of this wooden building. and we also had -- it was burning on the exterior siding of 661 to 663 waller. because the buildings were both burning possibly on all floors, a second alarm was called. there was an aggressive interior attack and at the same time aggressive exterior attack on the neighboring building. this was put out extremely rapidly. a great job by all members. i wanted to show you the first alarm fire we had. sometimes we don't get a chance to see that some of our first alarms could easily become second, third, fourth, fifth alarms if they're not attacked aggressively, which it's known for. this is the magnitude of this

fire and how well it was put out and how quickly it was put out. this was assistant chief brook baker's fire. we had a fire simultaneously burning up the hill, behind and also involved the billboard that you saw in the rear. that was at 8:15, 3241 san bruno avenue. again, all members did a wonderful job. for the fires in august, we had 22 working fires. we had one great alarm, the second i showed you. 32 outside fires. we had 20 grass fires. and we had an uptick, obviously, in the encampment fires, number 58. during the month for the most part of august we had 57 positions that were deployed and maintained for wildland and mutual aid. this is just some shots. i know chief velo has shown in his report on some of our deployments that we did

throughout the month of august. currently as you know, we have 41 members as the chief stated deployed. these positions are deployed throughout the month. right now we have strike team 2253. there are 22 members there. there are five engines and they're at the creek fire. we also have oes361 staffed and that strike team is also at the creek fire. engine 11 and engine 71 recently was deployed with the strike team and they are working with alameda, salinas and cal fire, also at the creek fire. lastly, eight members at the bear fire in oarhville which is what we see the results outside of our windows. we do our post deployment briefing at the division of training. we try to be there when the members come back to welcome them and get their debriefing and congratulate them on a good

job they've done. also, in the month of august, we had two cliff rescues, 15 surf rescues and bay rescues. i'll be -- here it is. so 1500 people we handed out these coastal and cliff safety awareness brochures. lieutenant baxter, our p.i.o. has been instrumental in going to the companies, handing these out, going out there with them along the coastal area and beaches and it's been proving to work wonderfully. in fact, we've received several dispatches while we were actually on the beach or the coastal area, so our response time has been extremely quick. i wanted to giving you examples of what the handouts looked like. our e.m.s. division update. we have a nice comprehensive

report from a.d.c. sandra tong. it's very detailed. if you have questions, she's on the meeting. one thing i would like to bring up, the narcan report. if you looked at the narcan report, you notice there is different% imgs for -- percentages for the month of august on the right-hand side. that is because of we're redefining some of the naming we're using. the name of homelessness. we're using at people experiencing homelessness. it's the way we identify our housing status. so as you see, the n.a.s from the month prior to, that's just because we established a new way to define them. so from here on out, the percentages will show the way they do this month. so this is the way they are put in the pcrs and that is why the numbers are -- they look a little different percentage wise. as far as the number of narcan administration, there has been a

slight uptick. and again, that's usually because of the strain that is out there right now. i'd like to thank e.m.s. for all their hard work. unfortunately, a lot of their pictures, while they're working on patients, i'm not allowed to use because of hipaa, otherwise, i would like to thank them for their dedicated service. zero five prevention, we have a report from fire marshal daniel. extremely detailed report. they successfully removed to station -- excuse me, south van ness, 49 south van ness. they have a coordinated plan check and review. their move is pretty much complete and they've done a great job. as i stated in last month's report, we have a lot of hurdles that we're working with, the fire marshal and his team are helping the city work with. bar cliff is one of them, slowed

streets, transit lanes. and this is just a map that is incomplete right now actually. there is more on the plate. i usually get one to two a day that i have to approve. it goes through m.t.a., then usually captain shad law that works for us and then he brings it down to the first alarm companies, battalions, divisions. they put their input in and then it goes up to captain law, the fire marshal and then we get the approvals or the non-approvals and they get put on my desk and i have to make a decision whether i feel they're safe or they're not for the fire department and the city's civilians and the businesses. these are just some examples of what gets put on my desk and what i end up having to approve. right now, we have everything approved except for i have two in my inbox i'll be working on today. but again, we're trying to get

the city open as quickly and safely as possible. so i just want to thank dan dekozunio and his team for all their hard work. the airport division, this report from a.d.c. mark johnson for his division updates is fairly -- very complete. but he included pictures here on their live fire burn training in san bernardino. there is some impressive pictures of examples airport fire-fighting. their training has been extensive which i appreciate. they've been seeing an uptick at the airport. we have -- you saw a picture of their offrig last month. they had their second transported right now, so we're excited to have another one. chief johnson has been trying to get more people trained as drivers and he has seen a lot of

participation. which i appreciate that. we have two more that are passed up right now. so they'll be able to drive it when it comes. the s.f.l. is seeing a big uptick in transportation and activity and more flights have been added in the airport facilities are opening, so the runs are starting to increase. they had a total of 216 runs and 93 bike medic runs during the month of august. homeland security. here's the report from a.d.c. cochrane, who i'm wishing again speedy recovery with his injury. i really want to thank rescue captain josh smith. he's taken over and taken the ball running with all of chief cochrane's projects. again, we have so much work we're doing with covid. our management, our response. and doing our best to keep our members masked at all times.

we are -- it's a constant battle with covid, obviously, and we have our daily challenges that we work with. he's been working very well. right now, we're working on a process of filling chief cochrane's position and the temporary status, until he's able to return to duty if he's able to return to duty. during the month of august, we did a lot of training on the tactical training medical care. here's a photo of practicing. we've had a lot of participation with other agencies and unified command which is imperative. it's worked wonderfully. here's an example of some of our tactical gear we use. these are tactical medics and we've had so much participation and interest with all of our medics. it's been wonderful. i want to thank them. we've been working with rescue and treatment in unsafe scenarios.

so ever since columbine, we realize we have to be in an unsafe scenario at times. we can't wait until the scene is clear. we have to go in, be aggressive and try to save as many lives as possible. so this training has been very good with a tremendous amount of participation. on the other hand, we also have the k-9 training. the k-9 training has been well received. we had a virtual graduation. we were able to train and use the safe conditions wearing masks and keeping our six-feet distance and i'm very happy to say that we have firefighter felicia lee who has returned to station 38 with her partner and a second firefighter will be returning to station 16 with his k-9 partner. my congratulations to both of them and their participation in

that graduation. there is the graduating class. that is my report for august. and if you have any questions, i'm available. >> i believe we have -- somebody on the public line. >> vice president feinstein: do we have any public comment? >> would you like to make public comment, caller? >> no, i just wanted to say thank you to everybody and just, president covington, to thank you very much for your report and -- [inaudible] and are very helpful to see. i was able to hear the end of the chief's report before she had to leave for her meeting. and thank you also vice president feinstein for chairing

this meeting. i'll stay on for the rest of the meeting. >> okay. do you want me to keep you unmuted? >> yes. >> okay. >> president covington, would you like to take over? >> president covington: no ma'am, you go ahead. >> vice president feinstein: i'm sorry for the distress that you're dealing with. >> president covington: yes. this is a dear friend, a dear, dear friend. and she's been my friend since i was 3 and she was 2. and i'm just not myself, so thank you. >> vice president feinstein: all right. we're thinking of you. all of us. >> president covington: i appreciate it. >> vice president feinstein: all right. there is nobody else on the public call-in line. all right then we're going to close public comment at this time.

i know that i have some questions for chief wyrsch. i don't know, though, if other commissioners do? there we go. i have the grid queue back. other commissioners with questions? i see commissioner rodriguez. >> commissioner rodriguez: yes. >> vice president feinstein: commissioner rodriguez, i saw your hand first, so i'll let you go first. >> commissioner rodriguez: okay. so thank you for your report. i just have one question. you know, i notice you said there was an uptick on the fires, the encampments. i just wonder, because i don't know what the past history was, but there were budget constraints. is there anyone going to see why there is an uptick on that and if there is anything that can be

done to minimize the fires? or is it even out there? and that's really basically all i have. >> vice president feinstein: thank you, commissioner. chief wyrsch? >> yes, in fact, we are working very hard on that. it's difficult to exactly say that we had a massive uptick, because we just started tracking these fires the way we have. in the past, we used to label them as a different way and we would not call our arson squad. but now because we have an uptick in the encampments, we are recording them -- each and every one of them -- and then the arson squad is called and they have to do a report. so the number may look like a massive uptick, but we were not recording them the way we were before. that being said, we have been handing out flyers and safety

flyers to all the encampments. usually it's because of cooking, warming or heating. we noticed a majority of these, where they are. and we have developed handouts in many different languages and we're doing the handouts in all the encampments we can, and trying to get the message out. >> commissioner rodriguez: thank you. >> vice president feinstein: commissioner cleaveland? i'm sorry, commissioner rodriguez, another question? >> commissioner rodriguez: no. that was it, thank you. >> vice president feinstein: thank you. commissioner cleaveland, i believe you had a question? >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you, madame vice president. and thank you chief wyrsch for your report. a couple of questions. we changed the terminology on dealing with the homeless and

wondered why did we make that change? or was that change imposed by other departments? department of health or whatever? >> yes. because at some point, some people are -- we're looking for a basic terminology that wasn't insulting. we're looking for a terminology where some people are only experiencing homelessness for a very short period of time. maybe they just got kicked out of their home and they're going to be -- have some sort of housing shortly. so it's a temporary homelessness. so we were trying to encompass all different degrees of homelessness and not lump it all together as somebody that was, let's say, deciding to be permanently homeless. so it was broken down into a more politically correct terminology. and then we're trying to get the data to reflect that so we know we can have better data and

figure out where our issues lie. >> i never thought of unidentifiable home addressed not being politically correct. >> the unidentify able, home address, there are people who don't want to give their address. they would rather not receive a bill or they don't want anybody to know where they live. >> so the uncooperative ones, okay. got it. >> commissioner cleaveland: i notice there was a big increase in the homeless-related calls medical. station 15, station 16, station 18, station 20, station 26. 39, 40, 42, 43, 44 and 51.

why? was that all due to reclassification? or what? >> i will have to research those individually. i think i -- >> commissioner cleaveland: they all doubled or tripled at least. >> yes, correct. i believe one of the main reasons for that is because, also some of the areas that we've moved them to are in different parts of the city. so they're actually in different shelters, in different encampments and they're spread out over the city. but i will look at exactly those stations and give you an answer. i can e-mail it to you. i'm pretty sure that's why, it's just because we've been moving the shelters around. >> commissioner cleaveland: it just seemed like a significant uptick. >> yes. >> commissioner cleaveland: from a good third of all of our stations.

under the issue of fire complaints, we had a total number of 250. that is a lot. what was the main reason? what are the main top two or three reasons you get complaints? i guess that's a chief question? >> yes, it is fire marshal. are you available? >> yes. good morning, commissioners, good morning, chief. yes, we have a table there with the type of complaints and identified all the type received. the most common complaint is associated with fire alarms. either maintenance issues, or any malfunctioning issues related to the fire alarms. >> i notice that under the incidents by call type, that was by far -- well one of the medical incident was highest,

but alarm second. which alarm calls turn out to be false alarms? >> that is something i would have to look into the number, commissioner. i don't have that readily on hand. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. i'd be curious to know what our percentage of alarms that turn out to be false is. >> if i may add one comment there, commissioner. there is a difference between a false alarm and unwanted alarm. you may have an alarm due to proximity to cooking, where smoke has triggered the alarm. that's an unwanted alarm. it functions at it should. then you have malfunctioning alarms, maybe it's been activated by me and should not have been activated.

there is a difference between wanted alarms and false alarms. >> commissioner cleaveland: right. i would imagine that a false alarm is one that is triggered and there is no fire. you know, that's how i see a false alarm. it's not a fire. somebody thought there was a fire or somebody is playing a prank and -- >> i agree, but i wanted to make sure that the message is that these alarms, the majority of them, are not working when that may not be the case. they may be working as they should. that's my point. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. >> i'm sorry, commissioner, chief wyrsch on that one. the second to last -- third to last page of the report, you'll see alarms, a total of alarms, 1044 alarms that we had in the month of august which equivalent to 9% of our calls. so those would not be counted as

working fires, because it would turn from an alarm to working fire in our data. so right now, we're working at about 9% of those as false alarms. and, again, it could be as fire marshal said, could have gone off because of smoking or somebody cooking or an actual malfunctioning alarm. we can have that broken down in the future for you. right now, it's 9% of the calls. >> commissioner cleaveland: that's not something that is off the charts. it's perhaps 10% end up being false? >> correct. and we've got in -- we get a lot of false alarms when we have the heatwaves such as we did. san francisco really wasn't designed with some of the alarms that they had in. we have heat sensors that are light wells and sometimes when the sun hits them, it's that hot of a day, the heat shield gets

hot enough to shut off the alarm and it's just due to the heat outside. we have alarms that are false alarms that are due to the smoke in the area. we have more sensitive alarms, smoke travels in through the window and sets off the alarm. there is many reasons we have what we call false alarms. >> commissioner cleaveland: do we have a lot of the red fire alarm boxes still, or have we taken those down? are those a thing of the past? >> so you're talking about the street boxes outside on the street corners? >> commissioner cleaveland: right. >> yeah, we do still have them. most of them are currently working. they are in need of repair, replacement or another form of device. we have been in talks with doing it wireless, doing it 5g, doing a different design. i know the city and the civilians like our tradition and they like what they call the

cottage style box and would like to see those remain. so that was on the table. and we had a lot of discussions with that before covid hit and then when covid hit, that's kind of been on the back burner. but i actually have the file sitting behind this computer right now and i've been in contact with them and starting to have that conversation opened up again on what the future plans are. as far as the wiring that is in the ground, it's become a thing of the past. so we're going to have to come up with a solution. >> commissioner cleaveland: thank you. i was curious about that. so... in the terms of the a.d.u., i notice that you've had -- again this might be with a question for the chief, what neighborhoods of the city are we seeing the greatest utilization of a.d.u.s? >> chief? >> good morning, commissioner and chief. that is something i don't track

in that detail, commissioner. i'm happy to add that if you wish. we just look at the volume that comes in. we look at the queue and how quickly we're processing them. for this level of this report, that's my focus, but we can change that if you like. >> commissioner cleaveland: i'm just guessing it's neighborhoods with backyards. [laughter] thank you very much, chief. that's all my questions, madame vice president. >> vice president feinstein: thank you. commissioner nakajo, any questions today? >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, vice president feinstein. not so much questions, comments again. chief wyrsch, thank you very much for your comprehensive report. again it's a large report and when i read it, i don't know if it was my imagination, but it did feel heavier as well. i wanted to point out, again, and i appreciate the report, the combination of your narration with the photos, on page 3, your

page then has summaries of fire of august 2020 and you break it down to working fires, outside fires, grass fires, encampment fires. that greatly helps for our comprehension on what is going on. i do appreciate, again, that summary page that you have. moving forward, i also wanted to denote on page 9, on your report, another summary page in terms of cliff rescues, surf rescues, bay rescues with their particular numbers. that is the section with the p.i.o. and with the heatwave we just had, amazing that the heat was here and now we've got this weird-looking weather out there with fires raging in california.

but it helps. and again, how many rescues occurred from cliff rescues to ocean beach and all of that. and i wanted to extend our appreciation to the department and its membership for moving forward -- [inaudible] i want to remark when you do show your photos on page 30 and 31, [inaudible] the map descriptions on parklets, play streets, slow streets, transit lanes, that definitely helps us in terms of -- [inaudible] -- work-level assignments are being given now. and that this is the chief's

prevention and investigation section. and then on page 31, with the diagram that you showed in terms of names and m.t.a., that image again is -- [inaudible] . i do appreciate all levels of proposal for the airport live fire burns. fire department members. [inaudible] san bernardino. the only question and comment is that on page 16, chief tom's section. division update. page 15. page 16. through the chief, through you, chair, to chief tom, was this area of challenges, successes, always part of your report, chief tom? or is that something that is new? because, again, i find this

section in terms of -- again within your unit to -- challenges, successes -- [inaudible] -- and page 16, highlight is really, really quite interesting, but also, i think very helpful. chief tom, has this always been part of your report, or is this something added? >> good morning commissioner nakajo, vice president feinstein, other commissioners, as well as chief. yes, this is part of the e.m.s. 6 report and it is a monthly report that the chief does monthly. so just last looked a little longer than normal, but yes, usually he does have challenges as well as successes specific to the e.m.s. 6 program. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you. can you also extend my appreciation to captain in terms

of this particular report. >> of course. >> commissioner nakajo: vice president, i have no more questions. thank you, chief. >> vice president, i believe you're muted. >> vice president feinstein: i was. i wanted to comment just overall. i'm so proud of this department. that everybody is performing at the level that they're performing. it seems to be one catastrophe after another that we're dealing with the city and the state. when i read this, everything felt, you know, from -- every section of this just really illustrates the amount of work that is getting done that is

important work. and i'm going to talk a little more than i usually do about that, because i think it's really important that people understand and know this. sometimes, perhaps, you know, chief, i have to say, i couldn't believe the number of responsibilities that his department, or his division has. chief dewitt, the same thing. and just the number of matters that are getting taken care of at a time when we could all be going crazy and ignoring these things and focusing on just the big things. and i think all of this adds up to make the department as great as it is in terms of prevention,

in terms of success and really gives me great pride to be on this commission. so i just am -- i hope the message gets carried down to the troops, because, you know, they're the ones on the front lines, as are all of you, too. i know that, but it really was -- it was stunning to me to see how much work is getting done in these very troubling and just disturbing times. so that was number one. my other -- and this may sound like a silly question -- i understand there was a captain's test scheduled for this week? is that -- do i have that correct? >> you are correct, yes. >> vice president feinstein: will that continue in light of all these other demands? will that get postponed?

what is status of that? >> as of right now, the captain's test is still going to happen, still go on. we'll have to make arrangements for people off on the front lines of the working wildlands fires right now. >> vice president feinstein: so they'll have an opportunity, those that want to take the test and qualify to take it at another time? >> yes. that's correct. >> vice president feinstein: and the people that already took it, do you think they'll give them the answers or questions. >> chief velo is in charge of that. do you want to add anything? >> members, when they take a test, they have to sign an affidavit of confidentiality, so they're not to share any parts of the test. as of right now, we have some members that are quarantined and they were able to get an opportunity to test later and some may be deployed. but members are required to sign this agreement that they will not share the information to the test. >> vice president feinstein: okay, thank you. okay.

next, chief wyrsch, we're still educating me. help me the understand between an outside fire, a grass fire and an encampment fire. >> okay. so an encampment fire is where somebody, like normally the tents or somebody has sent up an encampment, usually on the sidewalk, under the bridges. many different places. grass fire is only grass-involved. and luckily, we do not have a tremendous amount of wildland grass in san francisco, but we do have our share in mclaren park, areas like that. and then an outside fire could be considered just regular trash fire. we call no lost trash. it's overfilled trash can or somebody lights a trash can on fire. that would be no-loss trash or an outside fire. yes. >> vice president feinstein: i see. all right. >> if it's suspicious in nature, that's when we call our arson

unit, they come out and do a detailed report. as i said, we have so many outside fires, grass fires and encampment fires on top of the regular fires we have, we're keeping the arson investigation unit just incredibly busy. they have a lot of reports to do and they're doing a great job. >> vice president feinstein: that's great. thank you. it seems to me two things are really bumped up here. one is surf rescues and the other is the number -- i get the alarms. the alert. the number of motor vehicle, bicycle, scooter versus pedestrians, just seems to me -- i didn't go back and compare with prior reports, but every alert i get on my phone seems to be a call like that.

and i'm just trying to figure out why. i understand on the real hot days, maybe there would be more surf rescues, but they're up considerably. and so are these vehicle collisions. >> as far as the vehicle collisions, percentage-wise i don't have the numbers in front of me for the past reports, but i do know that as soon as covid hit and traffic kind of slowed down and the streets were more wide open, we definitely had an uptick in speeding. speeders that are driving way too fast. that's my personal opinion. my second personal opinion is with some of these slower streets, and a lot of people wearing their headphones because there hasn't been as much traffic, i believe a lot of people are not taking the necessary precautions and using the crosswalks and the sidewalks and walking out into traffic. again, personal opinion.

but there seems to be an awful lot and we can look into it, but that's my opinion, is because of the changes in traffic and the changes in the conditions we've done in san francisco right now. >> vice president feinstein: that's actually very significant. and i hadn't considered those. do you take that into account when you're approving the applications sitting on your desk right now? >> i have a difficult time approving a lot of this, because you have to look at all of those different things. and that's the other thing, too. they have the motor scooters, the scooters and the bikes now that are readily available, so a lot more people are riding bikes. and the social bikes and the scooters. so there is a lot more of those on the road than there were before. because of those programs that we have. so, yes, i have to take all of those into account when i approve stuff. >> vice president feinstein: i see many of them without

helmets, so when i see the later head injury i'm not particularly surprised. so thank you for that. >> yes. >> vice president feinstein: just moving on here to the e.m.s. report, which is incredibly comprehensive, i must say. am i correct looking at page 11 -- because i'm still familiarizing myself with the statistics and what have you -- is it fair to say that approximately two-thirds of the medical incidents involved during the month of august -- involved individuals who were housed? >> that is correct, unless chief tom, you wanted to say otherwise. i'm looking for that stat. >> vice president feinstein: bottom of 11. yeah. >> 33. yes, that is correct.

according to this, chief tom, did you have anything to add. that's fairly average, chief? >> chief, i don't have the same numbering as you do. is this the summary page with the six months? >> it's the second line from the bottom. >> it's consistent. >> 33% is consistent. >> previous months, 35, 36. we'll get a better sense whether or not the change in terminology has affected some of these numbers. i belief it probably -- i believe it probably will. it will be a little more accurate because it's not as confusing to our members when trying to figure out which box to check. >> vice president feinstein: very good. thank you. i'm trying to speed things up

here. i think there is some questions i can direct not using everybody's time here. oh. well, i'm going to ask just because someone else doesn't know. what is a deconevent? i understand decontamination, but i see station 49, deconevents, but there are no numbers. i understand why. and then i see other decon events, they'll be one, two or three. what does that mean? i'm on page 21. >> so the decon events are on the -- thinks on the medical report -- this is on the medical report on page 21. those would be covid possibility. patients that are transported in one of the ambulances so they have to go back to the 49 and

everybody has to go through decon and decon decontain tam nates -- -- decontaminates an entire apparatus. there are other decon events, if there was just let's say massive trauma. where we have to clean the back of the ambulance for other reasons besides covid. >> vice president feinstein: got it. thank you. and a comment again to fire marshal dekoezio, i can't believe the number of matters that have been taken care of during this time. i've got to offer a commendation there. who knew? my goodness. and i think i have just one more

comment. i think i will hold it. i'm just incredibly impressed. i wish everybody who is being deployed great safety whether they're deployed on the streets of san francisco or to one of these horrendous wildland fires. we have to keep them in our thoughts and hope, you know, hope there is some relief in the future. and that's all i have to say. which was quite a lot. so thank you. >> thank you, vice president. thank you, commissioners. >> vice president feinstein: maureen. >> i'm not sure if president covington had any comments? she's still on the line. >> president covington: yes. i still am on the line and i benefitted from the questions that my fellow commissioners asked and also the responses

from staff. i also am very concerned with the number of surf rescues. out of the 45 that are listed on pages 7 and 8, 14 of them are surf rescues and i really want us to come up with a plan, an active plan, that can help reduce this number, particularly working with the national park service so that we can get these numbers down. this is -- in these times, we need to use our resources as much as we can of course, but when things are avoidable, we really want to double-down and

let the public know how to stay safe and if we need more than signage, then we should be able to get it from the federal government by working with our elected officials on the national level. that's all i wanted to say. thank you. >> vice president feinstein: thank you, president covington. >> okay. i will go on to the next agenda item. we are skipping item 5. the presentation from los bomberos de san francisco. they will present on a different date. item 6, commission report. report on commission activities sips last meeting on august 26, 2020. >> vice president feinstein: are three any reports? -- there any reports? there are none.

>> and there is no public comment. >> vice president feinstein: all right. we shall carry on. >> item 6 -- item 7, agenda for next and future fire commission meetings. >> vice president feinstein: my fellow commissioners, any items you would like to see on the next agenda? >> president covington: we will continue to schedule the employee and affinity groups within the department and that was at the suggestion of commissioner cleaveland. so we will continue to do that until we have gone through all of the groups within the department. >> vice president feinstein:

very good. >> and there is no other public comment. i'll go to the next. item 8, public comment on item 9. public comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 below, including public comment on whether to hold item 9 in closed session. item 9 is a personnel matter. there is no public comment. >> vice president feinstein: very good. is there a motion to have this matter heard in closed session? >> so moved, madame vice president. >> vice president feinstein: it's been moved. i didn't hear where the second came from. >> i will second, vice president. commissioner nakajo. >> and president feinstein? >> i vote for a closed session.

>> and commissioner rodriguez, how do you vote? >> commissioner rodriguez: i also vote for it. >> the motion is -- oh, president covington? >> president covington: yes, closed session. >> okay, it is unanimous. we will >> okay. is there a second? >> no disclosure. and commissioner nakajo? he's on mute. >> commissioner nakajo: i vote yes. and commissioner rodriguez? >> commissioner rodriguez: you're on mute, too. commissioner rodriguez? how do you vote? >> commissioner rodriguez: i'm sorry, are you asking me again? >> yes, we didn't hear you.

>> commissioner rodriguez: i also vote for no disclosure. >> okay. the motion is unanimous. item 10, adjournment. >> vice president feinstein: i'll entertain a motion to adjourn? >> do we have a second. >> i'll second that. >> vice president feinstein: yes. >> commissioner nakajo: yes. >> commissioner rodriguez: yes. motion is unanimous. we are adjourned at 10:33. thank you, everybody.