i'm cheryl jemgs.ng me right now is chief of the fire department and san bruno city manager connie johnson. i want to thank you both for being here today. chief, i want to take you back on september 9th and when you first got the call, what did you think? >> initially i was eating dinner and i thought dinner was going to get cold. they said an explosion. to respond to an explosion it could be a transformer but as soon as it came out of station, we saw the smoke. it was alerted by te first team captain that he had to call multiple alarms because there was fireball. we knew this was not going to be something would be typical fire explosion. >> reporter: do you practice for something like this? >> that is good question. i look back and someone said, they never showed us a 30 inch gas main. but on the way up there, we were told it might be a plane. it could be anything. i got great information from my first on-team unit to set a plan. there was no water at the time. we did asset good plan, we got lucky on