>> with e.m.s. six, they are e.m.s. six encounters. they get specially called from the frequent callers. it is 95% of their encounters that were high-frequency users. that is not just all of our medical calls, it is just the e.m.s. six. >> what is the overall percentage of all of our 911 calls that art fires, they are medical in nature, what percentage would you say are -- >> 80% of our calls are medical in nature, and of those 80%, last month i believe it was 35% that was a person with an unknown address. it varies between 35 and 40% of those medical calls that are persons with an unknown address. >> what we are not sure how many are frequent fliers? >> total number of calls generated by high-frequency collars is 1047, and that is 60 5% -- excuse me, six-point 5% of total calls. >> his only 6.5 -- so only six might five% of our 911 calls are frequent fliers? >> correct. >> that was much lower than what i was expecting here. i also appreciate getting the number 2 reason that people are making calls, injury is number 1 , and altered men

the next page, as you know, e.m.s. has -- we have two more e.m.s. staff that begin soon. we should be getting another ship that starts -- shift that starts on saturday. we will have a shift that goes from 6:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. and that another shift that will go from 2:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. we will see how that overlapping works. the commission is also interested in our can administration. there is a form there that separates the narcan that was used by the battalion and identifiable home addresses and nonidentifiable home addresses. i think the all-inclusive extensive report is covered. [laughter] and then the airport division, they have been training on active shooter, which in this time, is good timing. it is coming close to the hyatt hotel project opening. captain lee was reassigned to a captain's position, and captain robinson was reassigned to operations training officer. they also conducted the battalion drill at the airport with our decon unit from the field from the city, from station 29. they conducted emergency evacuation training at the united operations tr

i mean, you can't explain it away. >> reporter: we asked e.m.s. sheriff's department for on-camera interviews. they both declined, citing an ongoing investigation. >> they didn't do their job. that's it. they just didn't do their job. they didn't care enough about human life to do their job. >> jim axelrod joins us tonight. so, jim, what recourse do the parents have? >> reporter: well, they filed both state and federal lawsuits today. i spoke to the family's lawyer just a short while ago. he said, sure, they're looking for justice. they're looking for accountability. they're looking for answers. they're also looking for a significant monetary award to get the attention of lawmakers in south carolina to change things and ensure no other family will have to go through something like this. >> yeah, so it never happens again. jim axelrod, incredible reporting. thank you so much. who's dog is this? it's my special friend, antonio. his luxurious fur calms my nerves when i'm worried about moving into our new apartment. why don't we just ask geico for hel

e.m.s. captain. president and commissioners and chief, so this whole operation is done in a very thoughtful way, and we always try to offer those of our members that are living in the tents on the streets, we offer them emergency seven-day beds at the navigation centers. the navigation centers allow folks to bring their tents with them, to bring their belongings, to bring their partners, even their animals to come inside, to live inside, where we can connect them to medical care, case management, things of that nature. so we do give our community members that are suffering on the streets inside of tents, we give them the opportunity to do that. so both e.m.s. 6 and the police department have the ability to give someone a navigation place to bring all their belongings, so we're not taking their belongings away from them. we understand that's an important part. >> commissioner dejesus: no, that's an important part. i'm responding to what commander lozar said, that under the 647 e, that he offers them o

. >> reporter: the police officer's body camera recorded what happened when e.m.s. arrived.ou speak english? hey. t reporter: tarashuk didn't answer the first responders, who were berating and cursing at him. h> reporter: so they shoved an ammonia capsule up his nose. >> breathe that in. flieporter: he didn't flinch. >> so there, i mean, at that point, someone should have stepped up and said, "we've got to take him in someplace. he's not just someone to let go." o do you want to go to the itspital? yes or no? do you want to go to jail? >> well, those are your two choices. >> come on. r:m going to give you a ride. >> reporter: as troubling as it is to watch how the ambulance crew treats paul tarashuk during the call, it's even more disturbing to watch the sheriff's deputy after. >> you're not going to jail. you're not under arrest. i'm going to give you a ride. i'll give you a ride to a safe environment. that's all i want. i want to make sure you're all right. >> reporter: the deputy puts tarashuk into his cruiser, drives him 15 miles to this gas aation near the county line,

so not surprisingly, the ambulances and what we call the e.m.s. services, they brought their own version of electronic health records and they have a whole different electronic standard. we were able to map those standards together so that if a patient is seen by an ambulance in the field, they are able to connect and do the same kind of korey about patient formation and transmit that to the hospital or anywhere they want and pilots that we have done that came out of some initial successful pilots out of southern california, we did one in sacramento with the county fire to reduce unnecessary transfers for high utilizers who generally are not, because they are not connected to community providers, or they have had behavioral health needs, and this is where we actually put an advanced practice practitioner in the van or in the ambulance, and it they were to respond to a call and add it and get the patient coordinated right in the field without a transfer to the emergency department, saving millions of dollars per year. another thing that we have act

our firefighters and e.m.s. workers work 24-7, 365, and we need to be able to respond immediately. this bill will provide the funding that we need to invest in our public safety infrastructure so we can continue to bring the city and the citizens the best service that we possibly can, but especially during a disaster. so thank you all for being here today. good day. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: all right. our last speaker for this program before we finally sign this legislation is the chief of the police department, bill scott. [applaus [applause] >> thank you, mayor. i'll be brief. i just want to reiterate what the mayor said. we have 13 san francisco police departments and 14 other buildings. many of our stations are over 25 years old. these stations, from the day that the doors open, they are open 24-7. they have always been in use, and many of them are in need of seismic improvements, significant seismic improvements. and we don't want -- in the time of an emergency, we don't want to have to worry about whether or not the station is going to be standing, even though we

i would also like to recognize san francisco paramedic captain who's part of the e.m.s. 16 and fire department center, an integral part of what we do at the healthy streets operations center. thank you for being here tonight. >> president hirsch: thank you all. so i'm wondering -- there are several commissioners who have questions. i don't know who's going to address them, but i think it'll be easier if you're all ready. i'm sorry about the air in this room. i guess it's august and they shut it off. >> they turned it back on. >> whoever that is, it was nice of them. >> vice president taylor? >> thank you very much. we all know as a nation, we're in the middle of an epidemic crisis, especially in san francisco. it certainly takes collaboration and coordination to do what we can in a compassionate way. one of the things that we have heard as a commission kind of on and off is that the police should not be involved in dealing with homelessness at all. so what i would like to know, perhaps conveniently, commander lozar is at the podium. what kind of training do you receive in it's not a policing j

it is constructing a new facility for the e.m.s. section of the fire department. an n.p.p. was issued in october 22 of 2015, and steel erection started in july. i'm happy to report in the early part of august, just a few weeks ago, we've completed the steel erection, and we've had a very nice and formal steel topping off ceremony with the fire department and the contractor. so this project is well under way. at this point, we're on target to complete the project by winter of 2020. there are some photos at the become of the slide, highlighting some of the steel that has been completed now, as of today. moving to the neighborhood fire station component, under this component, we're tracking two scopes of work. the main one is the host tower removal project. there has been an assessment done that the host tower that currently at six remaining fire stations will create a seismic vulnerability in the event of a majority event, and so the project is to remove that scope tower. and the other is replacing the existing emergency generator at three fire locations. so this -- the host

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