that sfda personnel haveveveveveveveveveveve >> thank you very much. [pledge of allegiance] >> thank you very much, madam secretary. >> good morning this is the fire commission meeting march 8, upon 2023 and the time is 9:04. this meeting is held in person. members of public may attends the meeting to observe and who vied probable comment at the

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excused. commissioner fraser. >> front. >> commissioner collins is excused. and chief department jeanine nicholson. >> present remotely. president nakajo will read the land acknowledgment. thank you madam secretary. ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement the san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights

as first peoples secretary? item 2, general public comment. members of the public may address the commission up to 3 millionos a matter within the commission's jurisdiction but not on the agenda. speakers address to the commission as a whole approximate not individual commissioners or department personnel. commissioners are not to enter in debate or discussion with a speaker. the lack of an upon sentence by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily will constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> madam secretary, is there any members who wish to give public comment at this time? >> come to the podium if you wish to provide public comment. >> good morning. president nakajo. fire commissioners. chief of department jeanine

nicholson. fellow command staff members i'm sherman till machine a captain of the san francisco fire department and the secretary for naacp san francisco. i wanted to come to say thank you. chief jeanine nicholson, doctor bro calm stefani phelps. janet and department chief oshg connor, lawsuit lawsuit ron roster my friends family and wife of 20 years. my children. as a firefighter i seen my share of trauma. the toll that such experience can take on the mind and spirit is not to be under estimated. and with your help i have been able to over come the debilitating affects of post traumatic stress as i understand

sxroem begin a sense of balance and purposeful president kennedy said the human minds is our resource. you demonstrate in the your work with me and i cannot thank you enough for when you have done. your expertise and coming fashion a source of inspiration to me during my darkest hours. >> your patience and listening and wise council helped me to make sense of my experiences and to find a path toward forward that honors my commitment to service and my love livment as i reflect on this time i'm reminded of plato, the america of a man is in the what he does with power you have use your power, knowledge and skills to make a profound and positive

difference in my life. and in so doing, you have the highest ideals of our profession. it is with my deep gratitude and respect that i offer you my thanks. and my admiration for all you have done for me. >> may you continue to use your talents and skills to heel and uplift those who are suffering. and may you be blessed with the knowledge that you have made a role and lasting difference in another human being. with reguards and heart felt appreciation. sherman tillman. thank you. >> thank you mr. tillman.

is there other public comment in the chamber. virtual? there is nobody upon approaching the podium and nobody on the comment line. >> thank you. public comment is closed. >> point order before we begin the regular agenda. if i may? thank you. >> in addition to the other acknowledgments of the day i want to reminds us it is international women's day today. not to be forgotten. around the world it celebrated more robustly than it is here i want to acknowledge our chief of department all the leadership in the department who are women. our mayor and those other women who made huge difference in their families, communities and in the world today. >> so. >> thank you very much, commissioner fraser. vice president morgan, any comment? with the prerogative this the commissioners make comments before we move agenda.

commissioner fraser thank you for that. >> yes. i appreciate that announcement and yea i'm on board with it.

history event today at noon at city hall. that would mayor is having. i want to put in a shout for shane it is his birthday. i'm comblad he is part of the command staff am other news in the process of selecting candidates to be interviewed by myself and -- some folks from the diversity, equity inclusionary office. we have a paramedic class in and emt class will be in soonful i'm sure that the chief will speak about that. and i know chief postel will speak about we had a multitude of fires the past several weeks and always folks are showing up

and dog a great job. we misee more floodings issues but we are ready to go. st. patrick's day is saturday an event at 11 o'clock rain or shine. i will be there. yesterday, we had i had a staff meeting with all command staff. and several civilian staff as well. just an update from everyone and also talking about goals for 20 tw 2023. the meeting with supervisors met with supervisor engardio who is definitely an alli for public safety. happy to work with him. president nakajo i met with

supervisor walten yesterday. and we had a good meeting and discussed budget as well as the challenges in his district in terms of water rescue resources and the like. and i have a meeting with the chair of the budget committee tomorrow. supervisor connie chan. we will be going to the budget committee as well for our over time in terms of over time budgetful we don't have the same challenges the police v. we have not gone over our budget we are not asking for a supplemental. we'll ask to move some funds that were to be used for salary and benefits. into the over time. pay. and so that is what will be happening there we are not asking for further funds from the general fund. i had conversations about that.

we met with labor management and had a labor management meeting last week. and i know they are anxious to get the mou figured out with dhr. i know this the police department ratified there are's this week. >> we will see how that roles out. police are having a hard time with staffing and retention. i'm not concern body staffing in the fire department but retention certainly, we have a very young department right now. so who are doing great work but it is good to have senior folks to pass their knowledge on. >> last week the rotary club of san francisco at academy of art put on an award ceremony for public safety including the coast guard, sheriff, police

department, dem. park and rec, rangers and the fire department. 2 of our members were recognized. one was the chief matt cannon, who works at the department of emergency management on all things to do with our communication, radio, our computer aided dispatch and has done a really he is really dedicated and done a good job for us up there. it is noise to recognize people to work behind the scenes. he is doing that but he is a huge part, reason for some of our success. and then paramedic anthony chak office recognized a paramedic for a long time. has not been with us that long may be 5-6 years. he was rescue noised he is actually gone on 5 pediatric resuscitations the last couple

of years which is unheard of. of those 5 pediatric resuscitations 4 of those little ones survived. which is also unusual. justmented rescue noise him for the work this he does and it is can be stressful responding to that scene as you imagine. >> we have introduction of new general counsels. jan hubbard, myself and cd2, 3, 4 the fire marshall and mark corso met with her this week. and she has a lot of experience coming in to work with us. and really looks forward to working with her in a month. >> and i want to thank commissioner collins for meeting with me regarding our capitol

projects which it is wonder to feel have expertise on our commission. and i know she will be meeting with assistant department chief as will vice president morgan. so -- much appreciated there. and then the first pitch at the park and rec baseball season and i want you to know, it was an instructor:i did not embarrass combvenl thank you very much for your time and i do have to duck out of here in a few minutes to get inside to the meeting but happy to take questions now or later. >> thank you very much will chief of the department of the at this point is there public ment on the chief's report >> well is nobody on the public comment line and no one approaching the podium. public comment is closed in this

period of time. commissioners, is there comments or questions you have before the chief leaves for her meeting. >> okay. thank you very much, chief we'll talk to you -- thank you, chief. >> soon. >> many thanks. sdwroo up next is department chief postel. >> okay. good morning deputy chief postel. >> good morning president nakajo and command staff and postel deputy chief of operations this is my report for official 23. during february there were 12 working fires. one of these the third alarm house explosion on 22 nldzil get to in a minute perform you are also aware from the command staff pages we had a few fires in the last 4-5 days. 2 second alarm and a number of single alarm fires that could

have easily become 3 and 4 alarm if the correct moves and decisions were not made by the first crews on scene. again to reiterate what the chief said, the crews are doing incredible work. under the leadership of assistant chiefs who set the tone and the expectations. and really ensure that we are this successful. i don't have the words to describe how proud i am how good we are doing in the fires we are the best there is and it shows. the third alarm explosion on 22 nldz avenue we touchod this in the february meeting. i want to get had detail about temperature the incident on february ninth 9:30 in the morning. when the crews got there they had a house partially collapsed. involved in fire and live power lines that come down in the street they had to navigate around. this fire had exposed into the

buildings on either side which suffered significant daj damage from the blast. they were unable to make entry to conduct a search. it was unsafe for anybody to go in there and the survivability pro5 anybody in that structure was zero. there was no way combbld have survived the blast and the fire. there was a loss. life there. and there was nothing we ksdz have done when we got well to change that outcome. the first line went on to the main body of fire in the house the original house the that had the explosion. and the subscent first, lateral companies to the delta exposure the building on the right. reason they went to blsd the chief recognized the winds was blow nothing that direction and the building of greatest risk heavy fire damage. we got line miss and able to contain the exposure fire from

the explosion building that exposure wall and the roomos that side of the building. we did have enough resource they called for a second alarm. all the second alarm companies directored to the bravo building. there was significant fire & damage, but the amazing thing is something of this magnitude did not get beyond where it was had we got there. it never went beyond that. a testament to the people in the field. the work and leadership of the chiefs and having a clear plan and direction. assistant chief kenny was the commander did coordinated all the resource. min miegz the damage to the comploezure buildings. and most importantly endid not go beyond where it was when we got there as it progressed from

an extinguisher event to an investigation. ey we have a fatality, explosion this takes a pd role. we transitioned to the investigation phase. during the investigation of incident several condition tainers of hazardous materials were in the building connected with the explosion. our response team came out with the department of public health respondeder. they stabilized the containers and oyst products involved and offered add voice to the pd on how to secure approximate transport this materials because it was evidence from the crime scene i think next time they might take our advice more seriously it did not go the way it should have. they have control of the evidence and their discretion how they handled it. once that was stabilized the component it transitioned to

investigation. and we had atf involved, dbi, sfpdings red cross, a ton of agencies were involved and went on for a couple of days. following that there was an after action review conducted by dem and sfpd, dpi all the key agencies and discussed our response to t. because this is essential low an opportunity for us to learn from what worked well and what did not work well for god forbid a terror attack where you have the jurisdictions coming together either quake there are different multijurisdictional incident this is may occur. a lot of good lesons learn exclude discussion was had about the role of each agency. and i think we are better prepared for the next one moving forward.

thanks to dem for hosting that. i'm proud of our response and ability to prevent this from a larger incident. on february 16th i highlighted in your report was a single alarm fire at 207, 14th avenue. this was a 2 alarm fire. what happened here was the initial report came in as presidio and california of a fire. units dispatched. there was nothing apparent. the ambulance crew responding reported a house on fire in the area of park and california another box of struck the commander chose to have units from both responded to get people quickly as possible and when they got there they had a lot of fire in a garage that extended a light well and building. there was a significant fire there and we were on a second

alarm assignment. of of note, this incident there were 2 legitimate rescues made. the first on the top floor of the fire in a rear bedroom by the truck 14's crew they gone this hose lines to lead to combat the fire. conducted a search and found a victim in a rear room on the top floor and brought that person to safety. while the engine company put water on the fire. same time, truck 14 had 2 members on the officer. and i will give credit to willie wong on truck 14's roof and did his job and did a survey of the officer to figure out make sure there were no rescues. no exposures and determine where they will put the hole in the roof and then searched a light welfound a person in the light welgoing down a drain pipe. over come by smoke and

wilwithout regard for his safer reached over, grabbed the person to pull them to safety and easy for him to be pulled over to the light wel. and hall third degree person on the roof and took them to safety. for us may be it seems like this is had you do may be routine thing. that is our reaction but it was a phenomenonal rescue both interior and willie's rescue and again, super proud of had they did at incident. those are a couple fires of note. we will move to fire prevention investigation. i talked about the 22nd avenue incident under chief coughin from the bureau fire investigation investigating the cause of greater alarm fires, suspicious fires, fires with

fatalities or injuries or undetermined or gin the incident on 22nd avenue our fire investigation played a critical role. we called them on the radio 4710 is their call sign if you hear that when you listen you know they are calling fire investigation. they work with to becomeo and firearms to determine the cause and secure the evidence this it is a criminal case and they'll be involved with this for years. in addition bure of fire investigation investigated 5 other fires and 11 other fire incidents during the month. the prevention side of the division permits are processed quickly as possible. the plan check for new construction had 647 applications submitted in february. 559 applications were approved.

one of the things that fire prevention is involved in is working with the mta and the street changes we touchod this last month. i'm sure you heard about the controversy with the barricades went up. and our objection to the type of barricades they used. but chief coughlin and nicholson and myself working with the mta come up with a workable solution alcohol allow you to access cap street. bring lad and hose and barricades we can move out of the way and prevent the 3 of through traffic this plan has been approved by the fire department. mta is working on it hopeful low there is a quick change inspect what they have out well and we can rest knowing residents on cap street will be safer knowing we can get to them when we need in an emergency. on another note with the traffic

calming issues i mentioned in the past, a fair and pure study we study the impact of the street changes on travel times. response times in the first phase of the study locked at macro response times and changes as a whole. tried to identify if specific changes were slowing us down. there were success with that. but because the city is diverse and neighborhoods are diverse it is hard to nail down what its is. it afternoon we will start the second phase of the travel time study and look at specific treatments and we'll look at the concept of corridors. we will take a street that has had a lot of changes made to it. and response to vision zero traffic calming approximate look at the similar corridor that has not had the changes. and weigh the response times on the street with the changes against the 1 without the changes. >> and try to finds if the

changes are hurting us or if there are changes that happen that help us. or some things the red mounty line and lanes help us. that kicks off today and will be a few months before they get through that. we are looking forward to this being completed. division of training under the chief, happy birthday. [laughter]. he's got the 131st h2a second degree me class they are 6-7 week in now. they learned basic, hose leads, different hose appliances. learned to use seba's high pressure hydrants. ventilation practices. forceable entry skills. they are building a foundation. once they get this built they will turn to a 50 foot lad and other things. battalion drills. testing is well. written scores were good.

seem to be about on parfor this point in the academy there are a few recruits that are struggling the chief and others are work to passport them and help the individuals. >> on february 21st. commissioner fraser and collins came out for the first of 2 live fire demonstrations for the fire commission i thought it was successful. and i think you agree. monday we will have commissioner morgan and feinstein and give you a hand's on case of what we do. you see being in a burn resume put the equipment on and understand how a fire develops. see the challenges with limited access in the street. i think you will find it informative to see how we do business when we have a fire. looking forward to this on

monday. the 129th and 130 classes in first and second assignments they get drills, testing, et cetera. no problems with them in the field and the fire reserves are conditioning the week low thursday night training. assistant chief darcy at the airport will have a presentation for you in a minute of february first i spent i half day at the airport with chief darcy and the staff i had lunch at a fire house and visited 3 stations and interact with the people down there get an idea of what their challenges are. and gauge the vibe of what is going on and i came away impressed with it is level of professionalism and preparedness they have down there than i are not sitting around doing nothing they are drill and appropriating and than i are red for whatever event may happen. but they also have sort of like a renewed sense of purpose.

they got new chiefs there and chief dares whoa is new and chief casper and matthews in the taining captain's role. they are engage exclude positive about the direction of this division there and so. they are doing a great job there. i will not dig to much of when they do i will let pat give his presentation you in a minute. thanks fwaen to everything than i do at the airport. that concludes my report for february and happy to answer questions you might have. >> thank you very much will chief postel. i will get public ment and i will have the commissioners have an opportunity to have a question or comment. to your report. madam secretary, any public comment on this item. why nobody on the comment line and nobody approaching the podium. >> public comment is closed. commissioners, questions or comments to which you gallon first. >> vice president morgan.

>> chief, i'm looking forward to the training monday. can't wait to get my boots o. get my boots dirty. i want to commends you guys others had a busy february. obviously. and just some of the highly skilled firefighters that you guys you know displayed talents with this blowup over there on 22nd avenue. i don't know hat people are thinking hazardous materials they store in their garages and put the neighborhood in jeopardy. you know and don't think about temperature you know. >> it is very dangerous and not uncommon unfortunately. >> yea. yea. you know you hear it on the news. i want to commends you guys and all the battalion chiefs and e approximately with the fire i

was readings through the federal and i like the way you attacked the fire like you went through some of the side residents to get through the wall. to get to the hot spots and that was insightful, >> you have to get creative. joof yea. of is it dealt. dealt would be on the right. standing in front you start it would ga, b and the left and the rear. what is right. bravo. >> okay. i will get it one day. >> and you guys fortunate upon response like you were saying did not rise up as a birth alarm you were fortunate the way you responded we appreciate that. i want to say, you know to all the brave firefighters out there

willie wong for saving the guy who crawled up the drain pipe that was amazing like out of a movey. >> it was. >> [laughter]. >> i think you guys are able to save a dog on that? i can't remember i think there might have been i read it somewhere. want to commends you for doing the great work. keep up the great work. be safe. thank you. >> thank you for your report. >> thank you. >> thank you commissioner fraser. [inaudible] >> i'm looking forward to hearing more about the response time issue in the study you are doing. so if you are comparing 2 streets or could you say more about this? >> so the idea is we will compare try to identify a couple of corridors is the term than i

used. you could take valencia which had a lot of changes approximate then gerero hads not had any if we have high responses on the streets we analyze the response times on valencia and contrast it with gerero that has in the had changes and -- goes to say. kwouft looking ger era the have better times. and dig down to what are if wean likewise a now of the corridors and find similar treatments on the corridors with slow are response times we can identify some of the traffic calming treatments that are slowing us down. and then from tlshg we hope to focus on traffic calming treatments that -- reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities. as well as -- enable us to continue to respond in a timely

manner. i think it got potential. tell be a little challenging. no 2 streets other same but i think both agencies are committed to finding solutions this work. i hope it gives us when we need. >> i think it is irrelevant important to have that data and really happy to hear this will happen. i think we will all learn a lot from it. for myself i walk all over san francisco all the time and the barriers and the bulb outs or whatever, it is just there are so many problems i see with traffic and i know there are efforts it calm but sometimes it does in the neil way. having dataal be helpful instead of my opinion of the also i want to thank everybody the training folks. live fire demonstration at treasure i left-hand side it was really, irrelevant great. i realliment to thank maureen for chasing us trying to take

minutes. record us the recorder of an official meeting which was chaotic as a meeting. but it made me feel humble approximate honored to be a part of this. also admire the learn and training that goes on. the drills. the 80 pounds of gear that people help me put on. what that feels like. you know to walk around never mind scrambling upstairs trying to poke a hole in a roof and rescue people like our firefighter willie wong did. i want to thank everybody. i hope to do it again i'd like to do it again temperature it is a good drill for all of us. >> you are welcome to in out monday. again. just a moment it is the invitation is there. we would love to have you again. it was not only fascinating it

was fun to see what goes on. and i learned a let about a little bit, about what our members go through. thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much commissioner fraser. chief postel, there is always a great appreciation in terments of your expertise and experience and their tifs. reports are here we all read it but when we get a detailed narrative as you give, it really is very forward and robust in terms of the questions i had in minds but again you answered them the fire on 22nd avenue. i then and there is the third alarm i thought -- like wow had is admit only a fire it is explosion and a lot of things. i know that i can look at the referreds to fiemdz out how much

apparatus and staff were out there. because it seems like unusual event. the houses on the other sides of the 2 houses next to the explosion were saved or minimum damage. i'm curious as to what the status is now with that neighborhoods and the homeowners like broken windo or blast is different compared. but i also don'ts want to driveway my car by and be a gawker. so you answered a lot of questions in terms of that so this is one meant on the 22nd i appreciate as well in terms of -- the description and the first alarmom 14th avenue. but also detailed in the rescues. otherwise, we don't know how difficult and daring and brif

the rescues are. and it is almost like you say part of our work. does in the get the head lines all the time of the other tv series on things we do for real. i wanted it say i appreciate that. i appreciate you mentioning cap street. we are all concerned. if we hear well is a doable -- alternative solution that is a buy off with supervisor ronen and the department of public works and with us, how we get in there. that's good to hear in terms of the report. other than that, heavy birthday chief. and i think it is significant day. and birthday and i'm looking forward to as the commissioners to chief darcy with the airport. any comment, chief? >> as far as 22nd avenue the

exposure building damaged blast the common wall between the buildings well is expensive moundz 've foundation damage and the walls are blown open and burned away what was left. if you went in to the bravo building i say the bravo building the fire there would second, lateral alone just in this building. there was pretty extensive damage on this exposure wall. i believe after it was over and they got in they saw 18 inches back from the foundation. was where it was knocked off the foundation. similar damage on the delta side. not as much fireplace damage we were able to get in there quicker. you gotta prioritize one over the other. you look where you do the greatest good and at the time the windows blown the fire to the delta and got in there. there is less fire damage in the

delta than the bravo building. both of them need extensive repairs. so there was a lot of damage to both of those. as to cap street, of i asked the chief to reach out to mta today and try to get a time line on when than i will start this work. so it is a very dangerous situation of what is there now. and i hope they ecpel indict the new balords we will put in the bollards are a 36 inch high steel post recess in the the ground and got a steel pin that holds it. you remove the pin and lay the bollard down. pin is soft enough steel if we than i with our rig if any direction in an angle or square, that pin will break and fold out without doing any damage or minimal damage to our rig. if we had a fire we back over

the stop and driveway in with the truck over the top. if you have an ems situation you want an ambulance in we have a tool to pull the pin and get in there. i hope that sooner rather than latered that gets expedited. it is dangerous what is there now. >> okay. chief. what is that in a temporary solution or something that might be a permanent solution and how many block. 18-22nd. we agreed on is station 7 on 19th they responded ump 19th toward cap. so there will be no obstructions off of 19th if you respond you head north or south off 19th to cap approximate barricade at 20th and 18th the bollards.

and then there on the south, on -- 21st and 22nd they will be on the south end of the block. so -- station 7 will be due there will be responding from either 19th or the north side. their access will be the first in company be accommodated. it is the second truck the supply engine we deal with the bollards. i don't know if than i are permanent or not. that is the mta's decision. . but they are a workable solution, they are not impeding us doing our job if than i stayed forever it would in the impede us. >> as long as there is proper parking enforcement. what is happening now people are double parking sxars they park on the barricade you block that street. bollards have to be installed and there has to be enforcement.

of the parking. there. >> okay. >> thank you very much for that update. commissioner fraser you had a comment or question? thank you. thanks for that. what is there now is a mess as i said earlier t. is a graffiti garbage pit now. barricades are awful. i feel terrible for the businesses this are adjacent to the barriers. 18th street was a nice restaurant it is just not a good solution. i'm not sure it has been fully explained. what the problem is how this solution is going to address that problem. i don't get temperature then the last thing i i did drive out to 22nd. i parked a couple blocks away and walked by temperature quickly i don't want to be a

gawker i wanted see at this time other thing in addition to the damage, destruction is just the trauma that you can feel on the block. it is just very evidence the neighbors and families there and the broken windows several husbands, way. i just foal for them and when a horrible difficult thing they are going through as they look at that explosion. every day. in their neighborhoods. so. want to acknowledge that is had they are dealing with. i did not think the 18 inches back from the foundation that's incredible. shows you how old building construction how stout the buildings are you can take that section of the structure out and it still is supported and can stand a lot of the new light weight construction with trusses they they you take anything out and you have a full collapse.

modern construction would not holds up the same as those bodiesings did. >> okay. thank you very much, commissioner. to continue your report we have chief darcy in terms of an update with the airport. if we can proceed with this? and we will take public ment after that prerogative through the chief of the department, the commissioners value this opportunity to have updates, reports beyond the paperwork we get. welcome. good morning to you, chief. and that's the spirit we wanted have an update. from the person in charge, if you will. >> please, present your update or your upon presentation. >> absolutely. good morning president nakajo. vice president morgan, commissioner fraser, chief postel. maureen the rest of the command

staff. i like to thank you for the opportunity to tell you about the airport. as you might know the airports actually 8 miles south of the southern border of san francisco in san mateo. work down at the airport when the firefighters go to the airport, it is a separate world and you lose contact in the city. because. that, we have people with 25 years in the fire department here. very little knowledge go what we do at the airport typeset is an opportunity for us to get this information out there. so today i want to talk to you about our operations, members and responsibilities we have and some of our equipment. so. the airport division supports the fire department's migsz providing san francisco airport with high quality fire and ems response as well as fire

prevention services to meet the needs and mission of the sudden fran airport. we have 105 members working there. note this when you in to work at the airport you only work at the airport not a rotational thing and people don't work one day here and there. people who are at the airport work there. members that come out have 3 years of service and -- get to the crux of why we don't pro rotate. supreparation under go 40 plus hours of training before we put them out to work. when people leave, we run short until keep get a class for them and get the 40 hours of training and qualified to work there. our nonsuppression ems members and prevention members do 10 hours of special train to work at the airport. to give you when an idea when we are protect nothing 2022 the airport moved 22 million

passengerses 970 flights per day. that is down from precovid levels but it is 17% over last year. we believe it will be higher tha this year. response area is 8 square miles the entire airport property when you driven pasts airport south you see the trees and wild lands on the right side that is airport property as well that is undevelopable due to environmental reasons and most low marsh land and a croak in there. we are responsible for that area. the airport operating area is 4 and a half square miles everything on the inside of the felonies. protecting the entire 8 square miles. protect the for you run ways. 4 terminals, 300 buildings 30,000 employees working at the

airport and we also take care of 10 square miles of the bay. so when there are vessels in distress in the bay we respond to the vessels as well. our i will cover quickly we have an airport prevention this works for deputy chief mire marshall coughlin we have them working out there with us. a captain. 2 lieutenants 2 inspectors and fire protection engineer. they provide the regular services that the fire prevention department provides but for the airport. which being vast and busy and complex needs its own division of people to work on the things. the terminals alone are 3 million square feet. and so all of that area has to be inspected once a year. fire safety make sure of compliance and construction projects need permits and plan

checking and construction is done appropriately we are busy on i daily base i. we have 3 stations at the airport suppression fire stations 12 apparatus. on top of that 12 staffed apparatus we have some cross staff apparatus a mass casualty unit provides medical equipment in the event of mass casualties. our daily staffing of the airport consists of administrative and training staff and a suppression staff. there is myself a training captain. a training lieutenant. 2 training firefighters and the executive secretary this provide boy the airport commission. takes care of our administrative issues. and we have 2 bike medics that work daily net terminals responding quickly to calls.

we sends others to responded to the medical calls but the bike medics have been able torous the response time from 7 minutes to 1 minute. because they are there on a bike and red to get to a play in the terminal. our suppression members institute 25 people a chief, rescue captain. 4 company officers and 4 firefighters and 15 firefighters. quickly cover had they do in training, the remember takes 40 hours of trin to work well the faa requires recurrent training all year round in 16 different firefighting develops. when we do that training, we have to keep very clear records of the type of training. actually had the training consisted whf where it fit in the disciplines and redness to independent and equip condition witness a year.

a week inspection this year in may. it is important to maintain the record and redness because without our readiness and appropriate training records the airport would be fersed not to operate until we were in compliance. our firefighters at the same time also have to maintain proefficiency as firefighters. we take all the skills a firefighter has and then add a giant lump of highly specialized skills but train on those things. we have this training staff of 4 people and we spends, lot of time all year every day in training because we don't get as many town tom go to structure fires or crashes. so we spend a lot of time preparing for those things and have a robust training staff. i recruited pictures of training we dom first is a live burn

required once a year on an aircraft prop. all our qualified firefighters have to go through trinning on a live burn once a year. we do this some of the water rescue training at the bottom. people do structure fire training. cover that much training not in just those subjects every covers that 3 thing in one day every day they work. i like to show you that we have this simulator when you drive the crash trucks they are complicated that it takes 6-are 8 mons to teach member to drive 1 of them. we have a driving simulator that is a perfect life size of the size of a rig. has the control and the display screen you see is software that is from the airport responding on our airport. i have been in contact with

chiefs from other places it is the envy of the world everybody heard we have it. most have a single screen and joy stick to practice just the joy stick controls. we have an actual driving simulator and everybodiments to try it. >> we have 3 stipulations there. top left one the one on top station one. there is an engine, truck and medic unit crash rig and rescue captain there. the one in the middle is station 2. this is out on the air fold and will does not have an entrance that is on the nonsecure side. and has only 2 crash trucks and the rescue boat operator. and the bottom the newest station 3, an engine, medic unit and battalion chief special crash truck, obviously. >> these other crash trucks. they are oshkosh instructor:er they are huge the biggest around.

carry 4500 gallonons of water. 630 gallons of foam. 500 pounds of dry chemical and 400 of [inaudible] and high reach ecpend annual this goes 60 feet in the area and one to the floirp and both controllable by separate joy sticks the driver never leaves the apparatus and one thing that people find interesting an under truck sprinkler system the truck will drive into aircraft fuel to fight fire. they turn them on to protect them from being roasted while they are in there the other vehicles we have the ladder truck a medic and engine. you might notice things are large at the airport. reason is the water we carry. we could be 2 or 3 miles from a water source we carry 750 to

1,000 gallons. like just for a moment to say we have 2 of the mcu units the mass casualty units people don't staff them daily. each one has enough medical supplies and letters to take care of 150 people we have 300 people worth of medical gear and being able to respond to the people. here other water apparatus the boat on the top is moose 46 foot boat. and it is capable of tow nothing 25-10 person life rafts at one time on to shore. in 2 trips we could rescue everybody off the largest aircraft in the world. the bottom swon our back up boat a vigilant in the process of being replaced zeechlt 2 rescue water craft and a fan boat a lot

of the area is muddy. we are able to responded on the mud if the fan boat if necessary. lastly, one of the training plan here. 767. we are conducting our practice runs on actual full size aircraft. just a quick note the becomes is the biggest thing you respond to in the stele for us an alert. there are 3 levels we never go on ones and not exciting 2 requires you to stand by at the run way an airplane has reported a difficulty and we are standing by in case they return of the landing does in the work out and 3 when there is an active incident. we have may be one alert 3 per year and consists of a fire in an ap u or engine. they are will put out quickly bigger alert 3 i hope they never have another one.

last but in the least we have the bike medic program staffs daily sick a.m. to midnight and 2 bike medics each 12 hour shifts and now they have a room they respond out of. it is inadequate we are addressing that. each bike is full equipped bike. and the bike medics provide the same level of care as anybody that is a medic. and because they are in the sxarpt on a bicycle they can be airplane in a minute or minute and a half. a couple of pictures of bike medics in terminals and the picture with the 4 people those are current 4 assigned bike medics. lastly i like to talk quickly about what is economic for the airport. we are working heard on the transition from a triple f foam to 3f foam. firefighting foam. as you heard for in other

updates this the all fire departments have to change. airports holds to the loaded foam until it is faa determine some flooring free foam be adequate to do our job. the speck has been adopted and products sold to airports within 3-4 months the transition will be come plex take us awhile the airports on board and providing us with the money we need to clean the rig and dispose. additionally, putting a new bike medic stipulation in the international term until. now the bike medics in to station 3 and ride down the road to the terminal not a fan sick a.m. medic rides to a midnight medic rides back to the station. in the dark down the road i'm not a fan. we are bodiesing a station in

the term not so tell be in the terminal. we are working upgrades hazmat and rescue training. we'll ask fo to get rescue vehicle and start rung hazmat and rescue classes in the airport so we are capable of understand specialing energy, we have over 100 permit confined space permitted entries per month at the airport. we want to upgrade this relocating station one so the airport have the space. we expect that to take 2 years and station 21 will look like station 3. the exercise is coming up in september. i encourage can anybody to come out. exit will show you everything we do. last but not least i think we get a visit from the americans. i will host you for a day to take you around and show you when we do. introduce you to the people who work there and show you stations and anything else you ask me to

do. >> all right. thank you. thank you very much, chief. i will get public meant for both your reports chief postel and commissioners can request questions. there is nobody on the comment line and nobody approaching the podium. >> thank you very much. public comment is closed. commissioners at this point on chief's presentation. >> vice president morgan. >> thank you. . department chief darcy. that was descript of report. i like the idea. bike medic this is makes sense. you know and -- they had a major being a few years back? we did a crash at the airport. in 2013. >> yea. that was 10 years ago. yea. i remember this. anything pacific we learn friday this tragic accident?

>> we instituted many changes the kaushth units you see they were purchased after the crash. we mutt a 24 hour one problem was no real supervision of the medical component of the incident of so we added member withhold be dedicated medical group supervisor. we learned a lot about our fire fighting and if i say something for the san francisco fighters changed the book how our firefighting was done. 3 members madent row in the airplane and rescued 7 off the airplane that were trespassed. in our bok our crews are meant to keep the fire suppressed while the staff of the airline rescues people off the airplane or evacuates it. our firefighters were dedicated to just preventing the spread of fire and not recommended it make

entry based on there would not be time to get the job done before the aircraft melted. with the broken tail section saying there were people stuck they upon emevented and rescued 7ing people the people killed were the people thrown from the plane had the tail broke off now it is possible to make rescues in the plane that start in the san francisco. >> great. >> so, in a tragic incident like that of that magnitude, are you pretty much self contain snd you don't need help. why no we need help. joy was curious. >> we would immediately. >>you know we would call 101 and 303 box the 101 will send a large members of san francisco fire department who did responded at the crash. we had 15 engines respond over

the course of this incident along with trucks and rescue squads. and then we called 303 brings about 5 to 6 upon engines, truck fist the surrounding communities. emeven then we could use more. >> wow. >> >> the towns there. >> exact low the firefighters at the airport theyor their own for awhile and know it. it is like may be riding a bull the mechanical bull. you gotta hang on and hope you manage to dot entire 8 seconds, right? >> yea. >> thank you very much. thank you for your report. >> my pleasure. >> commissioner fraser. >> thank you for your report. >> it was i'm just what can i say the diversity of when goes on. i had no idea the bike and special trikes with fuel and boats.

an amazing amount of skills and service that are provided there. the question mark next to your slide you can get rid of the question mark. yes we come. i'm going to come i'm sure everyone am come. i want to see temperature i was curious about the there are a million questions i will offer my admiration first. the per that you do in the became with special boats, can you pump water from the bay if you need to. why we can. >> we can. >> like we have here. >> our greatest concern in the bay if a water landing not likely it is possible. the boat does have fire suppression but get being the people out of the water is our greatest concern. >> so that is my last question. for federal. that is, i was following east to west a couple years ago and the person in front of mow had a medical emergency and i was

assisting him. and they put me on the phone with united airlines medical director. and they had a box of medication and stuff i could use. and when we lanltded, he was removed by paramedics, i was not paying attention at this point to the level i would today. was that our fire department paramedics. >> sfo >> would be our fire department. the ambulances that responds there are ours because our location san mateo is responsible for the trans port organization and service of trans port within a county. we use san mateo transport we are within them county. amr and ambulance but the first people there are the paramedic firefighters and bike medics from sudden front fire department. >> yea. they dot removal and am r the

trans port. >> we have more equip suited for working down the aisles of airplanes. room to move. >> the training is small little closets. it is interesting the float of boats and driving the fuel are think things that the average citizen including myself had not considered butt more impressive. and congratulations. on great work i want to visit. >> testimony be more impressive when you see it it it is amazing glad to feel have everybody. thank you very much, commissioner fraser. i was going to reiterate and support once the commissioners are out there may be sitting in the rigs and going if the boat area, and also meeting the member system a great responsibles. i just have again thank you for this report. and this opportunity for you to narrate a report to us.

it is really comprehensive as well. simple question, is all construction that occurs at the airport the fire inspectors are covered. we approve those construction projects at the airport? >> from a fire stand point, yes. our fire prevention division who works for fire marshall coughlin they w for cho postel but -- for -- we have fire protection engineers, had they make plans they bring them to our prevention division and a person there who looks it over and an entire division building department that is a building department and those folks will decide if the structure is sounds and all that. for making sure the building has the appropriate protection

features and fire design to prevent the spread of fires those are all checked by our people in prevention and perform the inspections during construction steps. >> thank you. >> thank you, thank you very much. appreciate your report. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> prop vied parking? >> absolutely. >> cull mow about that, too. >> madam secretary? >> chief tong is now up to provide her report. welcome >> good morning president nakajo. vice president morgan. and staff. happy birthday chief. sandy tong deputy chief of community paramedicine. my report for 2023. okay from which our ad c of ems.

>> we had average of 356 calls during february. the slight increase of january we are condition to see a slight increase 2-3% a month and see if this conditions to trends. we saw the return of in person training at station 49. so typically in the past languager past, we used to have in service training for members to give them updates on protocols. aside from the manualed torrey courses we have to do, which requires in skills, practice and certification for life support or for pediatric life support.

those we would hold in person inform terms of giving people over views of had is happening with new protocols. new training we want to provide for them that is mandated by emsa, those have been done via computers. online training. we have not had an opportunity to come in and inter~ act with the training staff and see their fellow paramedics and emt's. we are trying to increase and do more of. this was our first back in person training during this month. lead by drew and acting lieutenant janelle courtright. we have been getting positive feedback from the folks going to those. it is a chance for them to engage expect inter~ act and not something that and you know to ask questions the things they have not done for a long time.

am the chief mentioned we started our class number 9 paramedic level 2 class started i couple weeks ago. some of the members in the class and anticipate all 7 will graduate. and that will be the end of april. and then we have a class that will start later this month of level 1emt's. we are still wing on the numbers but look forward. and ulc we had myself section chief of training jennifer sdpruft interviewed 159910 interrence. those other gruts from the city's emt program. we were able to meet them. 10 have been offer exclude we look to on board them in the next couple months.

>> so the chief mentioned the rotary club this emergency services day. and -- along with chief cannon we had paramedic anthony who was nominated by our captains. and the reason why anthony was chosen was amazing work ethic as well as the number of pediatric cases he goes to which are most stress and will critical. i looked up anthony's attendance record which is exceptional and was not clear how great of an employee he simple however he was hire in the 2018. he has not used one day of sp in that whole time and he worked mull pull days of over time. his attendance and work ethic everything needs to be, mraudd and not only clinical skills he brings to every call.

he may be an amazing employee and want everyone to mimic how he works. so, it was well deserved and we are happy to have him honored at the event. also in your report you see this we note the calls we have our paramedics and emt's respond to every day and they are -- you know demonstrates clinical competence and compassion and care and it sometimes highlighted the additional skills. the fire that the chief spoke about on 14th avenue not only was there 2 critical patients transport friday this to burn patients. we had a number of residence denials displaced. we were able to one of our captains, lisa phyllis sent an excerpt you will see in your report.

about the work and the communication assistance that emt john lee provided for the residents there. he say cantonese speaker and a new hire. and was able to really help connect the residents with the police, arson, red cross in terms of the translation information he was able to provide. something this is invaluable on the scenes when you don't have you know that resource with the stress and the residents understand when is needed. information they provide that will be helpful in investigations than i are all critical in the moment and if you don't have the language ability and see the resources it makes a difference in how all of the might having to pair

medicine. they have been active as well so -- chief tang will speak about the transition from the reconfiguresation of wellness team usa hahappened on saturday. but one thing that has changed with this is the removal of behavioral health clinician. so a lot of the work on scene work this will be helping for 5150 holt will be done boy community paramedic captains we had 9 additional per se mayora medic who is received that training. and now in the capacity of the ct captain who will do those. we have a plan going forward of getting the community paramedics

trained and wing on making surety ones we are doing are well accompliced and then making sure we have the right quality improvement assurance efforts this will monitor all of those that happen and make sure they are done appropriately. we had our second -- community paramedicine symposium a series that the chief mason put together. this month doctor mill are talked about the program. the work they do in the community and approximate terrible low the work this than i doll to will put out community response teams in the city as well. we also had the pleasure of hosting lieutenant governor [inaudible] and the cpf the california professional fighter president they visited station

49. spoke about the work this community paramedicine has been doochlg how the street team usa came about and able to have her host or -- participate inspect a round table discussion with some of our members as well it was a nice surprise that 798 helped organize. section chief tang assistant chief and mason and doctor community paramedicine director met with legislative people from the cpf to discuss the concern legislation happening with community paramedicine. there was a bill that solidified community paramedicine in the state in terms of regulation and as a result of this there has been a number of efforts to ensure there is systemized and

regulated trainings. new rule and other things related community paramedicine. this legislation expired in 2024. so there is now an effort and new build up put out 767 that will address extending community paramedicine regulations and changes and revisions to the requirements that have been in place. we got a project supported and funded by the san francisco fellow's program this be an upon joint project with paramedicine and ems to develop resources online resource this our members in the field can access to look for accomplices they can refer people for shelter, housing, food. other special service. temperature is something looking for us easily accessible resource this our units can look at in order to help people that

may be don't need or want a transport to the hospital. and finally mason and the doctor met with regulates from the state emsa to discuss data requirements needed to track and to standardize data collected. it the one thing that i talk about around the need for you data and standard azed data and the way we report dataasm they are things community paramedicine is new are having to add the data fields and things that are needed on the state and initial level. they have been working on that as well. and finally, it looks like our teams have been effective they have been in the last month.

ept now they will be considered the street crisis sponse team. a community paramedic and pier support person. clinicians on the teams will be with d ph and assist with follow up care fr. a point of note since 9922 when we have been full staffed wellness and over dose we are projected to be close to 17,000 calls over a year. i anticipate this will be the same with the combined team and look forward to getting more for when you we get that. that's my report. thank you, chief tong before we ask for public comment chief tang is part of your report. have chief pang present his component and we will take

public comment and the commissioners ask questions or give comments. good morning chief pang. >> good morning president nakajo. vice president morgan, commissioner fraser, singled [inaudible]. chief postel and command staff. i know them president nakajo and commissioner fraser are expert in this already because they have a sumps chief nicholson and i on many trips to the sproirzs to discuss this reconfiguration. i may be speak to youing vice president morgan and the command staff. um00 autostreet crisis response team started in november 30 of 2020, and the street wellness team started in january of 22. have been doing very, very good work. in june of 20 twooshgs was when we cut over from a police

pregnancy to entirely etch street crisis response for acute behavioral crisis with the back stop being ems if there were not just street crisis response teams available in the street. that is one of the initial stated goals of the street crisis teams to finds alternative to policing to these calls inherited 14,000 calls the police used to run into ems. when we respond to a call, 30-4% we get machine in appropriate care that could be to an emergency room. if we feel that person has medical needs perform or could be to an appropriate nonemergency resource. there was a very good rates of connection. however that means the converse

is true that 60-70% of the people we engage chose to remain in the community. so there are many bear dwroers what we dom among them would be the first barrier the lack of available accomplices to take people. shelter place ams. we get every day zero and 8 shelter beds we have to share amongst all crews and also we have to share with the homeless out reach team -- district team. this is not a lot. the other resource this is in short supply are acute psychiatric beds at local hospitalings and beyond that lots of acute treatment beds where people graduate to from an acute psychiatric bed if they have severe mental health needs. lack of placement. the other is we don't compel people into care. if we assess them for capacity

and everybody is assessed. 100% of the people are assessed for will capacity. will and whether they meet the criteria fir a 5150 hold. a third barrier to our work is this we can connect people to care but people don't remain connected to care. we could bring them to shelter a clinic but they may not stay and end up back in the street. these are big difficulties. one way we felt we could address had for those individuals that remain in the upon community what they need is persistence follow up care. someone that will meet them every day for 60 day in a row. we thought that the viable resource of the clinicians on our response vans would be the

most appropriate resource to be added to the follow up teams so the people who are in the street can receive robust follow up care. when had person foible low has a moment when they are willing to accept change orment to come inform that develop a rep with someone a trusting rep and get them to care that was one of our reasons for reconfiguration. another one is we heard criticism and -- we wanted change. we have a lot of teams it is confusing. we wanted remove one miles an hour acronym. we want to combible our team and have one verse time team that can handle all of the work load. we wanted to improve our operational officials. by reconfiguring the street well ness and street crisis to one team we improve response times

and reducing the scylloing of resources. another reason is safety. last two months to 2 years and 4 months the street crisis team operating with one public safety officer on board. and there is no others team am that the fire department or any ems agency in our city that runs with only one member qualified to handle emergency situations work the radio. drive emergency vehicle. one member in challenger of all the vehicle maintenance, equipment maintenance. documentation, driving medical assessment and they are very taxed and burned out. our new composition on each team be a community paramedic and emt and peer support spiff. we irrelevant do think that the

peer support specialist on the team system essential to the work and we are going to maintain that person. i want top say this san expansion of the city's response for people in need on the streets. an expansion of street crisis responsibles of including the 14 health commissions on the rig specials adding them to the follow up side they are so necessary there and replace the 14 behavioral clinicians we need 14emt's we are asking in our budget this year for funding for 14 more emt's. it has been 4 days but i have been looking and report thanksgiving all ski performance inld indicators are equal or better than they were comparing in february. i know it is only 4 days a lot can happen. at this moment the there has been no dip in performance.

in some areas such as unable to locate calls we improved a bit. that's my report and happy to answer questions yoochl thank you very much. chief pang. i will ask commissioners if there is questions or comments. first public comment. on this item for chief tong and chief pang. >> there is nobody on the comment line and nobody approaching the podium. >> thank you very much. public ment is closed. at this time comment, questions? from the commissioners. [laughter] commissioner -- vice president morgan? >> i had a follow up since he the chief was directing a lot of that my way. i guess i had a text conversation with chief

nicholson about this subject. i probably read biassed article that was interesting and then i found out they did not speak with you guys. it was obviously biassed about taking the social workers and reconfiguring the street teams. and i guess their main point was -- you know why mess up something that -- works so limp if it ain't broke why fix it. and this was their take on temperature i said this is interesting an article. but -- if you know, i realize it was very biassed because they did not peek to the source. you know they spoke with x employees you will get a biassed -- you know -- store there. basically. and -- i mean it is the street response programs are known and

you got other cities around the countries copy it. so you know we are leading the way and it is impressive. that of all the positive results that you guyings get. and i'm a big fan. you know and you know i it through up a flag because if you know -- you got something working why fix it. but i understand the reconfiguration you want to be efficient and i get it. you know i'm on board with t. don't worry about me. >> thank you very much vice president morgan. commissioner fraser. >> >> thank you. chief tong i'm on board with it. and we had lots of conversations recently but i have questions in that because i want this on the record. the follow up seems to be the -- speed bump for us if i understand everything correct

low. ip mean our members in counter personal on the street moget call and nowhere to take them. you pointed out the shelterer beds are full. and the emergency rooms are full. what have you. the resources are not there on the back end. after our encounter. my question is, in the policy that appeared that here when we came in says that the skirt individuals by skirt are philidelphia up guy a social worker from the department of public health. is this person in the which department is this person? the case management group? this is per of the office of care coordination run through the health department. that is mental health sf. the office of care cordination has had a dedicated team of 8 individuals.

4 of them are behavioral health clinicians. could be in social worker. and the other 4 health care workers. you know a female of 8 is not -- sufficient to handle the demands. so the behavioral health commission would subam the team. so more receive follow up care. this changes are grit and make sense. based on responsibles on the street over years. i just i don't i'm not saying it should not happen. but how we make sure that the pipeline does not just stop. the pipeline of care. that the interventions. don't just stop with us that whatever we need to do to help keep that open so patients are

going and the teams are become out. and nothing is perfect. but i think your experiences and experience of the teams are really important information for how we builted whole system and our part is makes sense and will do well how we inneract with the other pers is important, too. whenever we can do to make that work. please let me know. let us know. >> thank you very much commissioner fraser. just a couple comments. i will start with chief tong. i again -- appreciate the opportunity when you are able to report but given the [inaudible] i med my comments to chief postel when you, chief tong part of your responsibility anywherate when we have on paper. it makes a great impression. i appreciate the detail of it

but also when you know individuals liking your reference to paramedic with the incident in terms of his bilingual abilities. i remember the day when former commissioner [inaudible] and i were commissioners and language access for the members were of importance chinese or cant nose and spanish and such. it reenferses to me sudden frap developed how important it is to have that bilingual ability. we have within the resources. i appreciate this you pinlt this out. so i wanted remark on this. chief pang. even though myself and commissioner fraser visited and trying to educate the supervisors, in this report in terms of the configuration it is

something of a learning experience. and you do a good descriptive in the sense there were 3 different teams and to 2 teams. the question of what we had and when we accomplished is we respond but as we deal with the public, there is no follow up or lack of or beds i think this is clear. in terms of whether the needs. in the description for me operation efficiency, budget and machine power and woman power t is important if we will be effective. your report if the results of configuration. makes sense to me but made a lot of sense to chief tong or paramedics are now out by themselves i'm not knocking the tome or resources i'm talking about the actualities on the street. our responsibility is it respond

to the patient in such -- it ends there. but we are talking about more follow up the hospital or whether services so, i wanted say that, i appreciate it but also the commissioners need to understand it clear as well. as we move forward t there are still moving pieces in the budget in terms of for all of us in terms of huwe will able to pull this off. i wanted say that. thank you for that. last thing i have another closing comment. okay. >> i understand you are going to be awarded the spur, worried? >> that's right. >> only a couple simon pang in san francisco that work for the department of i wanted acknowledge that. to the colleagues that simon pang, chief pang will be an awardee of the spur, ward.

i think is irrelevant important it is a recognition beyond our peer group and internals. i want to congratulate you on that as well. >> thank you very much. thank you chief tong. in dam secretary. >> item 5 adjournment. >> we will need a motion on this to adjourn, commissioners. please. >> i like to make a motion to adjourn. >> thank you vice president morgan. >> second. >> commissioner fraser. >> seconded. >> madam secretary. >> president nakajo. >> aye. >> this meeting it adjourned at 10:47.

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for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now! wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire

engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a

minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music] >> mr. will. mr. will. will! >> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music]

>> my name is tiffany cobb and i work for the san francisco fire department. i was raised by a single parent. i grew up with a very strong work ethic mental ity. i would like to compare it to a bar back and anticipated the needs and the call. you will

provide the needs and complete the call. >> the favorite part of the job is when i can actually connect with a patient and utilize your people skills as a human being. sometimes it's not a medical need. they just want someone to talk to, someone to listen to and want to be seen as a person and want to be recognized and see them as they are. those are my important calls. i remember being a seven or nine year old girl and never seen anyone like me in a fire engine and that gave me hope that i can do that. there are people like me that can do that job. sometimes people need to feel nurtured and feel safe. i feel like i can bring that to my

patients. >> you maybe feel afraid. just try it out. that's what i did. just never give up. i was told no. i failed the fire academy. i'm still here and i never quit. just learn from your mistakes and never give up on yourself. i'm in station 49. eventually i would like to utilize my skills as a fire paramedic and hopefully become an officer some day. >> for san francisco, i said this in my interview, it's like the new york of the west coast. it has everything i wanted to be a part of. it has ems and has a rich history and blue collar history which i absolutely love.

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>> in 1948 swensen's ice cream used to make ice cream in the navy and decided to open up an ice cream shop it it takes time for the parent to put money down and diane one of the managers at zen citizen in arena hills open and serve old-fashioned ice cream. >> over 20 years. >> yeah. >> had my own business i was a firefighter and came in- in 1969 her dad had ice cream and left here still the owner but shortly after um, in here became the inc. maker the manager and

lead and branded the store from day to day and in the late 90s- was obvious choice he sold it to him and he called us up one night and said i'm going to sell the ice cream store what you you talking about diane came and looked at the store and something we want to do and had a history of her dad here and growing up here at the ice cream store we decided to take that business on. >> and have it in the family i didn't want to sell it. >> to keep it here in san francisco. >> and (unintelligible). >> share worked there and worked with all the people and a

lot of customers come in. >> a round hill in the adjoining areas loved neither ice cream shop in this area and support russia hills and have clean up day and give them free ice cream because that is those are the people that keep us the opportunity to stick around here four so many years next generations have been coming her 20 er thirty or 40 years and we have the ingredients something it sold and, you know, her dad said to treat the customers right and people will keep on coming back and 75 or 74 years, you know, that is quite an accomplishment i think of it as our first 75 years and like to

see that, you know, going into the future um, that ice cream shop will be around used to be 4 hundred in the united states and all gone equipment for that one that is the first and last we're proud of that we're still standing and people people are you tell people it's been around in 50 years and don't plan on

it is great on see everybody in person. feels like had has been almost 3 years since we had a look down. great to see everybody. hopefully everyone stays dry. we came in when the rain started. but tell be here when we leave. il get connect third degree is new being in person on wifi. all right. roll call >> sure.