congratulations to chief dean chrisman, the 27th fire chief of the san francisco fire department. thank you, vic. next we'll hear from dean's brother randy crispin. >> thank you, joe. and good morning everyone. i had the great fortune to be born 11 years before dean and so i got to watch him grow up and develop into the man that he is today. >> and i did i was able to do that with the maturity of being quite a bit older than he was. >> and so now when people ask me if i'm surprised that dean has been selected to lead this great department, i have to say i'm not surprised at all. >> because dean has been doing great things his entire life. >> now i think all of you know about at least some of dean's accomplishments as a firefighter. vic alluded to some of them. >> i'd be remiss if i didn't mention at least a few three commendations for rescuing fire victims, elderly fire victims in the tenderloin meeting the city's response to more than 50 major incidents. and as vic also alluded to organizing a group of firefighters to go to new york city as soon as they could after 911 to work on

so in january when we came into office we chief chrisman has initiated these monday morning meetings for emergency operations and disaster preparedness. so chief brown has been working on a checklist project which is ongoing and updated regularly as well as blue angels. winter planning has already begun and that's one of our favorite events. i have to say that the last blue angels event it was chief myself and chief casper director of training chief rabbit has also participated in this event as well. and so this is hits close to our heart and this is something that we've now realized we've come into these roles and thank goodness we have thought about succession planning. so there's going to be a new team out there representing us . >> fema task force three deployment to palisades fire search canine unit was deployed . something else that we have been working on and you'll see in my next report for february how we've incorporated that task force three into developing another canine searching it. so that will be in the next report. but we are working steadily on this succession planni

so here that message loudly and clearly i like big my partner public safety chief chrisman who will hear from him in a second and i'd like to finish with this. we know that our city has the momentum. commissioner silver from the nba during the nba all-star week said and i quote him and saying that he is seeing a resurgence in this city energy like he has not seen before. that is where we are. but it's only going to get better from here because we are committed to making the city the safest city in america. and with that, i'll turn it back over to you, chris. i think the. good morning, everybody. first and foremost, i would like to thank our public safety team starting with mayor lori and the other members. we have a new administration in the fire department and it was very welcoming, very amazing welcome that we received from the other members of the public safety team. and it was very clear to me from the first several meetings that we had that we were going to be successful over this week those weekend's events. and the reason was that nobody was putting their department ahead of anoth