memorial inside st. mary's cathedral. pat gardner is deputy chief of operations for the san francisco fire department. sir, the meaning we have all the firefighters from all across the bay area coming across to your city to fill in. >> we have 299 people on duty every day in san francisco. about half of them requested to go to the funeral. we reached out to the state and brought in 11 strike teams of two engines, one truck that we are going to position over san francisco to assign to one of our battalion chiefs so if we have working fires or anything, car accidents, multicasualty incidents, the trained crews from around the bay area will come in and stay at our fire stations today. >> reporter: these are good men and woman. no need to worry about the safety? >> no need. we train together. these people are going to be assigned with our engine companies and truck companies.