all. >> welcome all. >> good morning. this is fire commission regular meeting december 13, 2023 and the time is 904. this meeting is being held in person. members of the public may attend the meeting to observe and provide public comment at the physical meeting location or by calling, 1-415-655-0001 and meeting id26609322263. the pass word is 1234 members may address the commission up to three minutes per agenda item. please be advised there is no fire commission meeting december 27, 2023 and the next fire commission regular meeting is january 10, 2024. please insure you're in a quite

location for public comment. speak clearly and turn off background sound, television phones, radios. wait for the item to be called. press star 3 to be added to the queue. the system will notify you when you are in line. callers hear silence when waiting for your turn to speak. operator will unmute you. yeah may also watch live at www.sfgovtv.org. item 1, roll call. president nakajo, present. vice president morgan, present. commissioner feinstein, present. commissioner fraser, present. commissioner collins has been excused and chief of department jeanine nicholson, present. president nakajo will now read the land acknowledgment. >> thank you madam secretary.

the san francisco we acknowledge 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 and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. madam secretary. >> item 2, general public comment. members may address the commission for up to 30 minutes within the jurisdiction not that does not appear on the agenda. commissioners not to enter into debate or discussion with a

speaker. the lack of response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement nor support. >> do we have public comment, madam secretary? >> yes, we have--one moment, please. okay. your time starts now. >> good morning. it is like christmas present, the fire department. your last meeting, right? coming here this morning i saw this thing on the new campaign saying, [indiscernible] we choose responsibility and critical thinking for the

future. as far as the fire is concerned, i think it would be interesting to start bringing real piece of information that there will be never because water obviously is the friend of the fireman normally. water there will never be shortage normally in the world because apparently there is something called primary water. woo we have to investigate that. which is below feet--i think like 300 miles below our feet. it is quantity of water which will always be there, so that will be the only problem is technology. what i want to say, i'm with you, it is just--try your best, try to fight technology which is unfortunately weaponized in all activities and that's it.

merry christmas. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir. madam secretary. >> there is nobody approaching the podium and nobody on our public comment line. >> thank you very much. public comment is closed at this time. >> item 2, approval of the minutes. discussion and possible action to approve the meeting minutes from the regular meeting on november 8, 2023. >> thank you. any public comment on the item 3 approval of the minutes from the public? madam secretary-- >> there is nobody approaching the podium, and nobody on the public comment line. >> thank you very much. public comment is closed on the minutes. i need a motion commissioners in terms of this adoption. >> [indiscernible] >> thank you very much commissioner feinstein.

>> second. >> thank you very much vice president morgan. >> president nakajo, aye. fraser, aye. the motion is unanimous. item 4 chief of department report. report from chief of department jeanine nicholson. report on current issues, activities, and events within the department since the fire

commission meeting on november 8, 2023, including budget, academies, special events, communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public.report from operations, deputy chief darius luttropp report on overall field operations, including greater alarm fires, bureau of fire prevention & investigation, training within the department., and airport division. report from ems and community paramedicine, deputy chief sandra tong report on the ems and community paramedicine divisions. >> thank you very much. good morning chief nicholson. i know you have a meeting with the mayor soon and know you are a little under the weather. hopefully you are able to get well in the course of the next few days. good morning. >> thank you president nakajo, vice president morgan, commissioner feinstein, commissioner fraser. chief nicholson, this is my report. since our last meeting on wednesday november 8, 2023. lots of activities going on over the past month. all sorts of tree lighting ceremonies and we also had a police and fire award banquet. american legion post 456 where we had three of our members were honored. ex mt carlos martinez for public service.

he takes folks on trips to el salvador to treat the poorest of the poor out in rural areas. he was honored for that and had two other firefighters honored for rescuing police officer last year who had the tree fall on his vehicle and seriously injure him. nice ceremony. as you know, we also had apec, apec, apec in november and our team really suited up and shoed up and i'm so appreciative and proud of all the work our members did. assistant deputy chief brown really just did an astonishing job at accordinating everything as did deputy chief tong. it took a village and great work by all. i know mayor breed came by

station 49 yesterday to thank the members and station 49 and i know chief brown and chief tong were there yesterday so thank you for being there. we also the week of apec had the 132 graduation. thank you for all you that came to that, and we also had a h3 level 1 graduation on november 22. lots of new folks out in the field, good stuff. we had our monthly labor management meeting. all went well there. and thanksgiving along and did quite a few different events, including saint anthony giving thanks on golden gate.

turkey carving versus the police department and yes, we won. not to brag, but strong work everyone. and thanksgiving day, i did-we did glide and self--help for the elderly and salvation army on powell street. it was a really good day. we had a firefighter from engine 41 honored at the nob hill association event, which happens every year. protector of the year with the police department. and then the command staff met with city 1234 met with the ems officers association rescue captains. we met with united fire service women doing great work and the asian firefighter association also doing great work. excuse me. still being interviewed around autonomous vehicles, we had the

dutch media in town for an interview session, so we have seen all the happenings with crews of late and again, we are just-we want everyone to be safe and i know chief luttropp had ongoing meetings with crews and wamo in order to help facilitate some improvements to public safety with their technology. the dream keepers initiative, which is mayor's program for that a lot of departments take part in and i was one of the-we were one of the departments that presented at that event along with multitude of others, but we presented on our program city emt and our 9910 internship program of our city

emt and people. very well received. a lot of people know about it. it is a incredibly popular program. we had a boot camp for the 133 candidates, two days, and then we selected and sent offers to the 133 this week and there may be a few more chosen from the alternate list. we will see how that goes. there was a h50 assistant chief exam and i want to thank two of the chiefs in the room right now, chief baker, chief thompson for really working really hard on that test. thank you so much and working with our raider, not raider,

but ratter. chief luttropp and i met last week as they were rating the test. i look forward to the results of that, i think it was a really good test and really happy with it, so thank you again for that, really good work. went to a meeting on sb43, senate bill 43, which has to do with 5150 and conservatorship and any changes that will come in san francisco because of this. so, it is the 5150 were typically just mental health, but now it is also alcohol substance use, and it can be utilized for medical real serious medical challenges as well. en someone on the street with

for example, open sores all over their legs, that kind of thing, but, it also has to do with conservatorship so we'll see if that work jz if it brings real change. we need the facilities on the back end to be able to manage some of the folks that are conserved, so, but i know the city is working hard on that. had a fire prevention town hall, myself and chief luttropp and our fire marshal ken coughlin did a hall in person with fire prevention. i think they are 50 or 60 people there maybe and we answered a lot of their questions and i thought it was a good meeting, and it is always good to communicate in person. a bunch of us went to the rec and park tree lighting, which i

think was the super spreader event where i got my cold. i will blame it on phil ginsberg, why not. that was a fun event. i'm go toog mayor department head meeting to get instruction frz the budget. my current understanding is there a $800 million deficit over the next two years, and they are looking for 10 percent from every department, plus an additional 5 percent sort of contingency planning and so, working with director corso and cd2, 3 and 4 we'll take a look at what we can offer, but we don't have that much to offer. we run a pretty tight ship and we don't have 10 percent to

cut, so it is the millions of dollars and so, we are having conversations with the mayor's budget office and will continue to do so and i will continue to advocate for the department when the time comes with all the supervisors on the budget committee and on the board to tell our story. we have been asked to take on more, we always take on more, happy to do it, but we also need to be properly funded and fortunately the mayor has done that for us thus far and i have faith that we will get through this. we will get through it. with that, i want to say happy hanukkah, merry christmas,

happy kwanza, sol sts and more importantly happy birthday to cd2. i do have to leave in about 2 minutes, so i thank you for your time today. happy birthday darius. >> thank you very much chief nicholson. we'll take public comment on the chief's report. >> there is somebody approaching. >> okay, yes. chief, yes are, but you see no, you have to use responsibility and critical thinking, you [indiscernible] everybody is talking safety, but the mayor doesn't want to push responsibility and critical thinking. the concept of it. you can't have a positive outcome without responsibility and critical thinking. [indiscernible] i know you are

not go toog like this one. sorry. happy birthday, but there is a difference between a surgeon wearing a mask and anybody else. if you are not a surgeon you don't need a mask. [indiscernible] have a nice day. >> thank you very much. at this point, madam secretary, we did public comment on the chief's report? >> there is nobody on the public comment line and nobody else approaching. >> at this point, public comment is closed. commissioner feinstein. >> [microphone not on] i certainly hope you feel better soon. >> thank you. >> some others might have stayed home, but not you and i commend your dedication and your double masking. >> thank you. >> i had one quick question and not sure if you are answer or

not, but regarding the prop 43 provisions, the public guardians office has been woe fully staffed for decades now and i know conservatorships before prop 43 ran through the probate department of the san francisco superior court, and my question is, do you know if there is a plan, because you are not going to be able to get cases to court unless you have the public guardian involved and i just don't know one way or the other. not trying to make any inference, but it has historically been very under-staffed and we are not--your folks are all going to be on the street doing what it is they need to do and there is not going to be a public guardian to pick up on the other end to bring the case

forward for conservatorship if that is what is deemed appropriate. >> so, i'm not sherbet all of it. chief pang and dr. lopoc were at the meeting as well and what i can say is dph is ready to move on approximately 40 people in january, so they will start the process for that number of people in january. i don't know the ins and outs of it, but i can certainly-we can certainly find out more for you. >> alright. thank you and feel better soon. >> thank you. >> commissioner fraser. >> thank you. thank you chief for your report. i'll be quick and qu thank you commissioner feinstein. when i was a visiting nurse in the 90's we didn't have enough conservators. when you say they move on 40 people you mean 40 people who

require conservatorship? >> yes. that's my understanding. >> not 40 new staff? >> not 40 new staff, 40 people that- >> have been recommended? >> yes. >> okay. >> that thank you very much. vice president morgan. >> i'll be quick. hope you feel better chief. >> thank you. >> i won't hold you too long, but i want to make a comment about the fire prevention town hall meeting you guys do. you guys do a great job with that. i was looking at all the dates and everything and i think that is a great idea. keep it up. yeah. i think that is a great idea. thank you for that. that's all i got. >> thank you. >> thank you very much vice president morgan. thank you chief. i know you have a meeting to go to. again, we all wish you to get better. my comment is basically thank you for the continued advocacy of the department in terms of the issue of the deficit and how we will deal with that. with that, thank you very much

chief. >> thank you. >> madam secretary, i believe we have cd2. >> that's correct. chief luttropp you are next. >> good morning and happy birthday chief luttropp. now that the whole world knows it is your birthday. trying to hold back and find out how old you are but that isn't necessarily at this time. welcome, chief. >> morning. good morning president nakajo, vice president morgans, commissioners. city attorney, maureen, command staff. deputy chief lairious luttropp and this is report for october and november of this year. my birthday present to you will be brevity i hope. i want to point out there are a

couple chiefs excused in the next 15 minutes or so for a important meeting, so please do not take offense if they bound out of here. looking at the stats for october and november. no tremendous uptick in activity. some decrease in water and cliff response usual for the season and in this reporting period, we fiend ourselves in the situation we usually do with a high profile fired amly before the meeting not included in this report but i have a greater alarm to report out to you. before i report that fire, let's start with that fire. so, there was a box 5456 on 11-14 this year. the chief responsible for this fire, incident commander and create or of the report, chief baker is in the room. second alarm at 975 valencia

street across liberty and 21. no injuries and cause of fire is still under investigation. 3 story apartment with two floors of apartment over commercial restale. the picture in the report is a very good discriper of the event accept the gates are not present in the first picture. this building has a light well on the bravo side which is common construction feature and you see in the picture here in the city of san francisco, but there was a events at the fire that lead it to be a higher profile and resulted in second alarm. so, there were 4 apartments on each floor of this. the dwelling space was adjacent to a hallway, which communicated fire very easily from this common light well area, so there was fire on all floors on arrival.

engine 7 reported working fire with fire visible showing on the roof line on the bravo side which is the left side of the picture. they reported working fire with smoke pushing from most openings of the building. there were also 3 occupants in the building already out on the fire escape that required rescue from the immediately arriving companies. the chief had obviously a number of decisions to make with life safety being the highest priority and all of the efforts went to the rescue of the occupants on the front and protection of everybody else still inside the building. hose lines went to interior where they encountered heavy fire in the hallway. included in the report is recognition of that work and work of the first 2 engine companies and truck company. also acknowledge of the rescue squad included in the report. the primary job is search and

rescue of people in the structure who are trapped. when you arrive at a building and esoopeople on a fire escape that is a a clear indication the common areas of the building are not safe and people not able to escape so makes the work of rescue squad high priority. the rescue did common task which is split in two teams and one went to search interior of the building and there was a report the chief received immediately issuing the second alarm there was a additional person trapped inside their apartment. the second team, the b team of the squad attempted to make entry through the tradesman. they encountered heavy fire in the tradesman area so a fire that extended to interior, heavy volume of fire. the chief made a number of decisions that lead to successful rescue of 7 people on the scene and brought a fire

that was active and progressing under control quickly. strong work by all units on the scene, and in the end, the chief recommended truck 7 for their work at this particular fire for meritorious accommodation for the rescuing of 7 people and whether the work they did, creating access through the metal gates across the front, including cutting a ventilation hole you see in the picture at the top. strong work all around, but when you arrive and there are two buildings under heavy fire and people already in need of rescue to contain to a second alarm is remarkable achievement in and of itself. next slide, sandy. you can see the-you are looking through the wall of the bravo exposure. the amount of fire in the space and time it had to get ahead of the work of our companies had

already burned through the entire sheeting of the walls. all the wood, already attacked the structural framing in this area, so that is a tremendous amount of energy that was being expend under to the building, and great great work by all. the chief-the tactics employed and strategy involved in this fire and the way that all the crews and the chief brought this under control so successfully really lead to a great transfer of information. we have a-with the graduation of the most recent class and all the junior members in the field, the chief has really taken his time to spread the message, make sure everybody understands what occurred at the fire, what decisions were made, how they should operate moving forward. it is a initiative that will be carried out in the next year. this information sharing this

transparency and taking the amount of knowledge that all the operational chiefs possess and making sure that is transmit today the next generation so everybody has the lessens that we had passed down to us from 150 years of experience of this fire department, so that that message continues to be transmitted and i thank the chief all the work he's done. i had a opportunity to sit in a number of drills he had since this event and it is events like this that lead to the success of the operations we'll talk about next week or next meeting on masonic street so i thank the chief for that. if i go back to the initial just spreadsheet of the fires, as often the case, there are incidents lurking inside the bear numbers that don't really tell the story, so if you go to the october 2023 statistics for fires and look at number 9, which was a fire that occurred

at 336 a.m., 2180 folsom street, this also had a very high potential for being a larger incident and one that would have fallnen to the report. there was a delay in reporting. the person had to actually run to the fire house to notify crews there was a fire. this is a fire where the occupants that attempted to fight the fire prior to our arrival, which we have no problem with, we teach people to use extinguishers and hope they can extinguish the fires but often that creates delay in response and all the factors were present. this is chief rabbits fire at 2180 folsom street and an event at some points would have easily been a second or third alarm in the history of the department contained to single alarm and the remarkable good work of operations in this fire department right now, i'm proud. very proud. so, to the next slide.

going to talk a little bit about apec, because obviously it was a very large important event operationally in san francisco. going into the event there was trepidation. we had butterflies, but the work of chief brown, the work of chief tong and all the associated chiefs in the planning stages lead to a very very successful event. but i just do want to give a overall statement of the impact it had on the agency. obviously at every-nsse area, national special security event area that is the areas around fair mont and moscone and one-night at legion of honor and exploreatorium. that was a heavy lift every day

for suppression apparatus. chief tong had medical supervisors, medical staff, treatment and triage in place from the ems side of the house they had a heavy lift with every motorcade requirement, every place that dignitaries were staying were requiring medical staff and there was concern going into the events, may have seen some in the press that maybe we wouldn't have staff available but as the chief said, i don't say the way she does, but everybody stepped up and there was great commitment from the agency, no problem staffing the events with our operational staff. another anticipated, but never know which will it go is amount of coordination in what we call our emergency operation centers. the secret service had their

own called the mac staffed with highest level of personnel chief. chief tong was there. the chief of ems, simon and neals were both there and from our side of the house, our operations chief our assistant chiefs, two a person staffed and maintained at high level of supervision so that the secret service always had people who could make operational decisions at any point and i think they walked way taking great deal from the experience and it kind of leads to some things i'll talk about as initiatives moving forward. we also had something called the joint hazard assessment team, which was a big lift for our hazardous material companies. battalion chiefs and all the chiefs in battalion 2 were instrumental in the hazard assessment team so any chemical, biological explosive event we were well prepared.

part was mutual aid. you may recall from the previous meeting i talked about mutual aid and framework inside the state of california. we had 3 mutual aid hazardous material teams to assist from san diego, fresno and los angelesism they were in the fire houses and interacting with staff and great asset to us but luckily no event to this nature. membership stepped for decontaminations teams, venue safety sweeps. chief coughlin, his sthaf a tremendous lift. every location, every dignitary, hotel had staff 24 hours a day to assist with protection and insure all the fire protection systems were in place. we had membership staffing the city emergency operation. you can see right going on and on. there were a ton of people

working very hard so the fire department took the lead in the emergency operation center in the city for public safety. we had also the lead in the ems portion of public safety in the emergency operation center and it dpoes goes on. people in pd. we stood up our own fire department operation center. this was a full week effort with our membership completing what is called a emergency action plan or event action plan, which is very similar to a incident action plan, which details all the work that is going to occur in the next 24 hour period and developing that cadence and having that work come out of our membership is tremendous often in the weeks preceding and in that week werefer to it as a drill, but it was not a drill. this was a incident, an active ins dntd incident and a lot of

members saw the amount of work that goes into and quick remind in the event of disaster like a earthquake that was maybe a 10th of the amount of work we would have to do. it was a good learning opportunity all around. this will be a initiative of mine next year is build ing out our commitment to emergency operation centers, and leading into what has been a long standing goal of having what is called a incident management team, so that we will have people specially trained in the different positions required to support operations and develop this kind of plan and to develop all the communications that go with this plan moving forward. expect me to bore with more of that information. a tremendous one by all. moving to the bureau fire prevention and investigation, which is always doing great work. i want to head off any questions. when we get to page 13 and huge

uptake in complaints and get to page 17 and 18 with huge up tick in noting of violations, this is a function of our finally implementing long-standing permitting of dwelling units and if you go to page-if you all looking at page 18 you will note we will have issued no notice of violation until the month of october and november, so now in these two months with issued 921 notice of violations, so the lift for the bureau fire prevention is going to increase a great deal. chief coughlin is in communication with board of supervisors and legislation before the board that allow for compliance and third party compliance engine to come into a shop that assist greatly with

that, but not the best time for us to be considering reductions in staff for the bureau of fire prevention or investigation. hidden inside all these numbers again, there is usually a story. all the addresses and the permits approved and the meetings and all that is occurring. if we go to the mta meetings, i think the story there is in your third column and that our relationship with mta and with task overall has improved to the level that we had no objections to any of their initiatives in the time period measured. it is ongoing. chief coughlin are working with the mayor office and mta to develop a guidelines so there won't be the need for as many meetings or objections moving forward because we set on design criteria that keeps in alignment. that is a good thing to see in

the report. another item of note that is hidden inside the approval of permits was an event two month period at 988 market street which is approval of permit frz the first conversion of commercial to residential space. the fire marshal office turned it around very quickly. [indiscernible] and city government overall. a great model moving forward and like to commend the oferts assistant fire marshal herald and [indiscernible] because of the speed with which they turned this project around. chief coughlin continues towork with the board of supervisors of lithium ion battery code that will hope fully limit the number of fires that we see. it was a kind of fortisitous

unfortuitous week to introduce the legislation. we had 4 structure fires tributed to lithium battery fires in that week alone. [indiscernible] a lot of work obviously associated with apec. i omitted him from the previous discussion, but there was talk at the airport of closing runways. there was tremendous amount of dignitary flow through the airport. also noted in the report is october was the month that we received the senator and her family at the airport. [indiscernible] is finally in service. you may have heard of the boat before. it will become part of the southeast water response plan and more follow on that. he's continued his efforts to train and to make training at the airport a atrackive

proposition for new membership and as he reported in the past or i reported for him, this will be a year where nobody is drafted to go to the airport. everybody at the airport will be a member of the airport in the next calendar year. at the division of training, the great work continues. the chief highlighted the two graduations that occurred in that period. 132 class in the field now and have been tremendous relief to the other membership, especially going into the holiday season. and we look forward to their progress and 30 years of great service from them, and with the h3 level 2 class that graduated, chief tong sees release in her field too. the picture on page 47 shows a drill that occurred in-that has been a long time coming and yes, that is members of the san francisco fire department hanging from the top of the

tower. sure a great time had by all, but it increases readiness and capability for technical rescue of this difficulty. other things to highlight in the month of october, chief baker is here to receive his flowers. with chief art sero and chief baker changed our approach to our annual disaster drill, windshield survey drill conducted with field operation. it became more a actual exercise and we plan to use the success of that drill in october as a initiative moving into the next year as we revamp our work groups and committees and we'll see that drill carry out throughout the field so we are prepared in the event of a earthquake. our [indiscernible] going through the final final paces and i expect an invitation in the mail to attend the

demonstration in january. yep, that's a good year. i remember talking about that a year ago; but it is on its way. and then there were all the other prep tore steps for apec including active shooter training. moving on to our nert also instrumental. october is a big month for neighborhood emergency response teams. i didn't mention fleet week in october too. tremendous fleet week as usual. apec over-shadowed it but all regular fleet week activities did occur and did report out the interaction we had through our radio and the changes that were made. final policy issued on that so that is a nationalized policy

based oen the work [indiscernible] used by other cities throughout the country. finally, the reserves, not much of note in their report but i want to commend them and thank you. they have been at all our greater alarms of late. their membership really does step up and assist in the post fire and in recovery and assistance with crews add the scene, filling bottles recollect picking up hoses, all the things we allow them to do and hope they look forward with a career with us in the future. i'm ready for any questions. >> thank you very much chief luttropp. at this point, we'll take public comment on the chief's report, cd2. >> i don't see anybody approaching the podium and there is nobody on the public comment line. >> alright. public comment is closed.

at this point, we'll entertain comments or questions from the commissioners. commissioner feinstein. >> thank you chief for your report and this was neglectful on my part but i just wanted to focus on the one item that is included under the airport that touched my family very deeply and that was the way in which this department suited up and lined up and honored her return to her home city forever her home city, and it was really-it wasn't just the airport, it was the receiving of her casket at city hall and the honor was

just truly so heart-felt and i'm so grateful to the department. it was really something. i just want to i guess we call it a shout-out, offer a shout-out and a thank you to chief shawn buford who i know is here today, and also to lieutenant christina hunter who were--i guess they were supposed to be honorary bearers but it was so heavy i think they got their work out in, but it meant a lot to me. the thank the police and sheriff department who did a lot, but it was really this department that went to great lengths and yeah, as those who

have been here as long as i have, the fire department was always very near and dear to my mother and i know she would have really truly appreciated the honor and it was a true honor, so i wanted just to say thank you. >> thank you for your kind words. >> commissioner fraser, vise president morgan any questions? >> thank you for your report chief luttropp. you guys did a great job on valencia street. my mic is on. valencia street fire. that was a big deal there. just want to commend the engine 7 and truck 7. i imagine those are two separate units. >> correct, yeah. in the same fire house. >> okay.

the only thing--the lady, the elderly lady they spoke of, i guess everyone got rescued, but they didn't speak of her anymore in the report. i hope that went well. with the elderly lady they said someone was trapped and spoke of a elderly lady and didn't speak of her anymore, but i guess she was part of the other rescues? >> seven people rescued. 3 from the front fire escape and 4 from the rear of the building so a separate fire escape off the rear. >> right. what was the bravo side again? is that the back right? >> the bravo side is left hand if you are facing the building. >> left hand, okay. i just are want to commend all the chiefs and command chiefs on that site and chief baker and chief schwartz and chief sagenza. commend all the chiefs.

you guys did a great job and you guys definitely the public appreciates you guys horoics. the adjoining properties were not damaged at all, right? >> they were damaged. as i pointed in the picture. >> sorry. >> the wall and water but the structure was saved and people were able to return to their building. >> wasn't too bad, right? >> bad enough. >> okay. alright. i was going to--on i had a few question about fire prevention, some of the sites. you guys do reports for potential or proposed construction sites as well? you go over the planning? >> that's correct. at our permit center and plan

check we review all buildings in the city of san francisco and part of the process. >> okay. >> she has been doing great work streamlining and approving the efficiency. >> okay. i know you had a lot of reports on sunnydale and those proposed project and how is all that go sng ing? >> i pleev moving apace and a benefit to our training division as they are doing demolition of the buildings, they have a lot to train in them, but i had no reports of-- >> they allowed you to train in the public housing? >> yeah, they have. the housing be removed for the projected listed for permits and it is a good intersection between 2 parts of the operations. >> thank you chief. thank you for the report. i'll let other commissioners

ask. >> thank you vice president morgan. commissioner fraser. >> thank you. chief luttropp, first of all, happy birthday. >> thank you. >> every time you give a report my mind is blown and i learn a lot, so i thank you for that. fascinating. and you mentioned you are proud and you should be, given everything that goes on here. aquatic, aerial, the receiving of senator feinstein at the airport, the fire, apec, just a incredible-inspections, incredible amount of work and variety of work that's goes on for blocks and blocks so congratulations. interesting to hear about everything. i did have one question back early on in your report about you were going to work on emergency operation centers going forward. could you say more about what that is? >> i can.

there's specific training that there is credentialing that goes with working in the centers and our chiefs are obviously capable and competent and staff across the board is capable and competent to work in that environment, but there are specific credentialing requirements that we'll be moving forward on. in the state of california obviously a heavy emphasis for incident management teams is wild fire and urban interface, which is slightly separate form of credentialing then to work in emergency operation center, so chief baker and i have been in conversation about this in the past. chief arsaro have been in conversation with chief baker and i think we'll pursue multiple tracks of training and make a baseline competency for our captains who are approaching the battalion chief rank and battalion chiefs to have a form of the

credentialing and expertise in maybe one subject area specifically so as we move forward we are a asset to any emergency operation center that stood up in the city of san francisco. >> i would underline that, asset to any emergency operation center. thank you so much. the complexity, the competency and willingness to be of service is really impressive to all of you. thank you. >> a very interesting job and if you know anybody we are hiring. >> i wish i was younger. >> thank you very much commissioner fraser. chief luttropp, i'm going to give a couple comments. as i always seem to do. thank you very much for your comprehensive report at the commission as i always enjoy your report and how detailed that is. thank you very much for this operation component and which you pointed out in terms of working fires and pointing out different fires like the item

you referred to in terms of folsom fire as well. great photos. it really does help the commission or myself as well. going to move on to fire prevention. i notice how thick fire prevention report is. again, the public doesn't see how big our packets are, but it is 36 pages and i was wondering why such a intense report and you answered it in terms of the administrative hearings and permit hearings now occurring within it. i also wanted to give a note of appreciation to the fire marshal and all his personnel within your office as well. it is tremendous amount of work going on and also thank you for the information on the update of that process of commercial

moving to housing, which we have been talking about quite a bit in san francisco, and i would be very interested as well as the commission as to how that goes. [indiscernible] of the city after covid. but thank you very much for that fire marshal as well. moving on to san francisco airport report. chief darcie. i notice a new format. i like the format. again, when people submit the department tremendous amount of work so i want to know the format and where it came from. nice format, easy to read, easy to follow. i like the differentiation of the months of october, november. the news ongoing. i also particularly wanted to acknowledge as you commissioner feinstein noted in terms of

late senator and always be the mayor of san francisco, but i really appreciate on page 41 in the news letter that dedication to the senator. i just thought that was quite beautiful myself. very respectful and very honorable, so again, the photos within the segments and also these sections, tremendously help. i will move to division of training, thank you very much chief. the two graduations we attended as well. and also the format and again, i will refer to the photos within it, because as the descriptions of the area, the photos tremendously help in terms of what goes on within the 26 pages in that particular report as well. other then that, i just wanted to thank the department and thank everyone in your component. chief luttropp for this comprehensive report this morning.

thank you very much. madam secretary, i think we have cd4? >> yes, chief tong is now up. >> good morning chief tong. >> good morning. dep uty city attorney, [indiscernible] command staff. deputy chief sanda tong. ems paramedicine. i was at the christmas tree lighting so i like to be seated while i do my presentation. >> please. >> great. can you hear me? >> yes.

>> we had our 5th cohort of 9950 program. the emt program. they had a two week orientation so working with paramedic and emt partners on ambulances getting 500 hours of experience, so they can be prepared and potentially applicants if they are interested in whether the fire department, firefighter position or the emt position with station 49. also on november 4, members of the ems division with chief [indiscernible] the staff of city emt [indiscernible] they did a mci drill where they had 3 exercises where they are able to practice a multi-casual incident where they were able to identify patients, determine what their severity of injuries are and be able to coordinate

and triage and treat all those patients. this is a program in collaboration with city emt that i know chief finds very dear to his heart to practice with these members and really just get a better sense as to how helping them better understand what it might be like if they were to be part of the multicasualty incident. on november 9, as the chief mentioned, the firefighter of the year for community service award by american legion post 456. carlos martinez who is the founder of the kids foundation awarded this award. as chief noted, this is a group that he has spearheaded and brings 49ers, bringz other community members to el salvador to provide medical aid to very rule areas in el

salvador. they are actually planning another endeavor in january, so looking forward to the reports from them when that happens. also as noted on november 22, thank you commissioner president nakajo. we graduated a class of 12 new ems and so they are already on the ambulances, this is day before thanksgiving. chief [indiscernible] did a good job providing background for apec activity. i want to note, there was a very huge lift on the part of ems and community paramedicine to prepare for this event. we started i think planning in about march and then as the days coming up there was a lot of ramp up in terms of just trying to address the a