my name is debbie raphael, and i'm the director of the san francisco department of environment. supervisor mandelman did an outstanding job of setting the stage, and i will use some images to reinforce something he said, and hand it off to talk about our department. the crisis is here as supervisor mandelman. during the fire that was in butte county, just want to remind us that 80 people lost their live, 1800 structures destroyed. and the thing that makes this particular fire so indicative of why we're here today is we are about 160 miles from the site of this fire, and yet, the ravage of this fire, the tragedy of this fire actually became the air that we breathe here in san francisco, and this is mother nature's way of screaming at us to call attention that even though things may not be happening within our 7-mile-by-7-mile radius, things are still happening. it takes the community behind us, the community that is calling for us to take action together. i'd like to remind us all that carbon is not necessarily the enemy. we are a carbon based species, and we rely on it for our s