in my time at the distribution, unfortunately i got to know a lot about the fire department. we have had 13 working fires, several which were very significant and displaced or injured our residents. i learned how hard the fire department works, how important their speedy response is in terms of saving lives and of course our possessions but also how they build relationships with their constituents at a time of intense loss, anxiety and fear and they do it with a great deal of compassion and dignity. i think that's the most important aspect of the work they do on behalf of our city. it's truly incredible to have a department to be able to get that type of feedback from our constituents. it's great to welcome our fire department to district 6. yes, it's a block away from my house. i forgot to leave the key to my apartment with my neighbor so i had to run and do that before i came here. they have been working to help facilitate with the fire department and the modern museum of art. it wasn't long ago when our city first started to develop plans to develop yerba buena -- that's go

i think the fire department is long overdue for a close examination. obviously long-term san franciscans remember the introvert for the misuse of alcohol at the fire stations and i think that issue has been two slowly dealt with at city hall. since we're talking about the firefighter health and safety i want to say for the record and hopefully, the board will address those two items in later haerlgz about the fire code i'll read the headline. both articles are from the san francisco chronicle. the first thing is holland san francisco fir faces discipline for helmet cam but the next one is disturbing and, in fact, people don't know headline says tentative settlement law suit. i thought i was reading about somebody working in a southern plantation i find it hard for firefighters to be working as a team if a certainty firefighter has been treated that way recently >> thank you. any additional public comment, please come up. >> supervisor wiener and kim and good afternoon. anthony. i want you to know i'm not asking you to support this system. there's a supp

the fire department comments were heard by the fire commission. the fire commission individual and amaze proofed the san francisco fire code as presented today. this slide shows the comparison between the fire access elevators. you can see the phil station and it's determined by the jurisdiction. every third floor after the fifth floor. the existing systems can only fill air bottles to 54 f s i. those elevators can deliver firefighter equipment and help to evacuate the public. we have the bottles maximum capacity. there is additional seismic safety of the elevator shafts for buildings greater than 45 hundred feet in height. regarding firefighter air roishlt systems. the san francisco fire marshall does - we're to create a better building system health and safety code. on 5 jurisdictions in california has those systems san jose and north county which includes bay city and pacific. the expectation is for the fire access elevators instead of the fire systems. redwood city on the other hand, removed the requirement for the air systems altogether from

the bottom line is the men and women of the san francisco fire department and it's counter intuitive that you have people coming to you that are not firefighter experts through i know former chief and the former fire marshall they have expertise. we feel that this issue before you today is the right one and it's the right thought to have an option to buildings between 75 and 1 hundred feet. personally a firefighter should be able to get up to 12 stories. we're conditioned and we practice all the time. so it's about 7 or 8 stories but basically we've looked at this and we feel that the fire service elevator officers for flexibility and we feel to offer this between 75 and 120 is the way to go. the state code calls for that of 1 hundred and 80 feet. i'm happy to answer any questions that you have >> thank you chief. any questions. supervisor kim >> i have a question from public comment. is a question whether we have any of those service elevators in existence in the city >> i believe the twint i didn't plaza. >> it is the second tower so we have one. and that's the only building that ha

. >> colleagues as you probably know every few years the fire department review our local fire deed to look at provisions that maybe outdated and this would repeal the outdated coincides. this is an ordinance this is routine and the legislation has the co-sponsorship or mark farrell. the ordinance would remove a provision since 2004 requires building taller than 80 feet to replace is it with a different system. that issue is a complicated one i've asked the fire department to talk about that and we have our detective chief to make a presentation on behalf of the department. another person will come to this meeting and i'd like to postpone this until we've heard from her and colleagues any questions >> thank you, president chiu there's another discussion point i i know i've been going back and forth on and that's section 5284 line 9 and this section has to do with pedestrian safety projects and how we accommodate the critical need within to approve pedestrian safety consistent with our code. colleagues as you know pedestrian safety is one of the most high priorities. no matter what neig

a chilling effect where the fire department's don't bring forward a proposal. so to bring it back together i know we share personal safety i want the firefighters to come to our neighborhood and work has been done to get their trucks through. and again on bartlett and streets throughout the city we need to make sure that the fire department as for the and didn't get in the way of our traffic safety improvement. it shouldn't dictate diligence from argue staff to know what we're doing >> thank you, ms. shafter. good afternoon >> good afternoon. i'm here to support supervisor wiener's position on bulb outs especially for seniors. there's an increasing number of seniors populating the city and we know that seniors are quite vulnerable to accidents with vehicles. bib outs are important not only to the distance for the seniors who what can slower. but they also allow drivers to see seniors self-interest we are often told we have to make eye contact with the cars and gesture but seniors can't often do that. they don't want to fall so the tendency is to look down at th

>> i'm not here to criticize the fire department or her i'm here to give my opinion on the issue. i will say in the previous commission meeting i was representing mission air but i've separated microfilm from them. quite frankly i've been in the fire service for over thirty years. in fact, when i became fire marshall i took a $70,000 pay to lead the local fire department's for 3 seven years i've figure out for the firefighters. i personally believe this is a firefighter safety issue >> thank you. thank you very much. next speaker >> supervisors good afternoon i've mario i'm with - i retired from the fire department. i'm basically here to give you a little bit of information. about 20034 rescue air the company that was providing this service approached san francisco fire department and presented their product to us and the officer were charged with reviewing the merits of system and while we felt as a tool it had merit in certain circumstances our unanimous remedies was that this was something we didn't feel was necessary in new high-rise buildings. there was a massive change in th

i want to thank all of you and want to thank our men and women in uniform from our fire department andpartment who have sacrificed over the years and been part of our early response system. when the alarm woke me up this morning, i didn't know exactly what was going on and i think that is appropriate because when the earthquake happens there is a great deal of confusion. unlike 1906, we are much better prepared. with that being said, i still have nightmares that at some point in the future we know there is a 2 in 3 probability that the great one is going to hit us in a few years . i have a grandmother that is not prepared, i have many family members who are not prepared. thank you for san francisco who is ready for the big one. mayor lee is going to be here shortly and he's going to sign a piece of legislation that supervisor wiener and i worked on to make sure the three story soft story buildings that have people living and working in them get repaired. i want to thank many of you and our officials who worked with us to get that done and with that, let me turn it over to my tallest co

thank you i'm not sure if i got the list from the firefighter fire department but in the interim one was mandate that was implemented the fire air remreshlt system and some or are the district i represent. i'm guessing more than half of them are residential. i have a lot of concerns about what you might be taking anti another tool for the firefighters and some of those at all residential buildings was it might mean. if you could go into the height explanation so i could get an understanding for buildings 1 hundred and 20 feet and over. this fire code starts 75 feet and overcorrect and a yes, they require to have the firefighter air reaccomplishment system depending upon when a building permit is issued for a high-rise at 2 hundred feet an elevator was required after january 1st of 11 a single firefighter service access elevator was required and after 2013 two elevators will be required >> could you explain that if you're building is 75 feet or higher what is it the requirement today. >> at this point the firefighter equipment - if it's over 1 hundred and 20. >> 75 to 120. >> just the

>> in 20034 when the san francisco fire department proposed this there wasn't a fire service access elevator ordinance available. that didn't come in effect until 2008 >> i see. >> so the technology for the elevators wasn't there yet. >> and since then i've read you've be able to increase the capacity of the tanks. >> exactly. >> yeah, we he got a grant for a hundred psi bottles so that's in conflict which we only file 45 hundred. so that's recently happened in past year >> my los last two questions. i'm curious what happens to those 31 believes that has this reaccomplishment plan into place. the buildings will be required to maintain the system when they were installed so nothing changes for them. i think retrofitting the building for a fire service access elevator would be astronomical >> it's more affordable for them to keep the system then to change it. do you train the firefighters to use this system for the 31 buildings >> the building is not a single system in the city is the same. the company that provides this system they put a mock system in the training tower but it's only trainin

good, runner to the fire department. do you have the tools and skills to extinguish a major fire? no, you don't. notify the erd, evacuate -- assist the fire department if we get there, but don't become a victim. smell of gas. what can you do as nerts? turn off the gas. and what are the 3 situations when you want to shut the gas off? smell the gas, something -- oh, yeah, wheels are spinning and major building collapse. muni -- overhead muni wire, flopping around. what can you did as nerts? always assume all electricity is live and hot. so what can you do as nerts? cordon off the area, tell people to stay back. small fires reported in the rear of a building, what can you do as nerts? if it's still burning that small fire is now a very large fire. so all you can do is really notify the erd, evacuate the area, assist the fire department. five buildings have suffered heavy damage -- heavy damage, kind of a clue there. three of the buildings have collapsed. what can you do as nerts? not quite nothing. would you go in to search a heavily damaged building? no. you will -- very good, notif

and from my prospective if the fire chief or fire department doesn't want those systems if the rank and file firefighters don't increase safety this ought not to be a system in san francisco and that's my prospective today. i hope we can move it out of committee >> supervisor kim. >> so i actually came into this hearing which i asked a lot of questions and i appreciate the fire department. to be honest, i feel uncomfortable being a layperson to vote on a policy change such as this one. we have to trust the fire commission and fire department as well in terms of what they deem is safe. for me it seems important to go above and beyond so i was initialing to keep what it was to keep the air that you are system for our high-rise building. i think that 75 feet is two low but 1 hundred and above is important to not have to carry our air pressure system up. new york may not have those systems but it's helpful to understand what's happening internationally. i hope we talk about the case of an earthquake. i'm concerned when we have an earthquake in a building but when we are talking about a high

notice fire department, work in pairs with 2 extinguishers. one extinguisher and the other person is a backup to get you out. that's an nert volunteer. never fight a fire if it's a large fire. large is over your head. if you are scared and it's too big, it's too large for you. if it's spread beyond where it started and blocking our escape route and you are unsure how to use an extinguisher. there are 4 types of fire it's on the label. on the front. down here. water type extinguisher it's a chrome big thing that holds 2-1/2 gallons of water. 30-40 feet away is the maximum, you want to get closer. flood it with water you can put your thumb over the tip and it fans it out. dry chemicals, inside here this is a bc this is one you might have in your car. it's not used on wood, paper, classic fires only on flammable liquid and electrical fires that's what you use in your car. if will have a pressure gauge. metal handle and it will have a good sized rubber nozzle and the label and all that will tell you the fire it's for. pass, pull the pin out. aim th

city what 343 firefighters looked like and it turned into a tradition now of the new york city fire department. every year we remember the brothers we lost on september 11, 2001. a very nice tribute, very simple but yet very impactful. the ball breaker, you guys realize -- look at this, turn around. >> richy, good point. >> you realize what these guys are going to do to me after this? that's four years of material. i'll get my balls broke about this. it's just not something we do, but i know this is a good thing, so that's why i don't mind talking about it. >> we appreciate your sacrifice. >> you have no idea what the sacrifice truly is. ♪ >>> on a day when close to 3,000 people were killed in three cities, a lot of myth has come up afterwards what really happened but in fact, we have a record of what happened. never before had so many people had so many cameras in one place to document one event. there were thousands and thousands of pictures taken that day of death, of destruction, of one picture that day emerged that gave us the sort of sense of hope and it was three firemen raising a flag

and among those fighters the fire was our san francisco firefighters who stood alongside other fire department's across the country navigate over 5 thousand people fighting the fire. and, of course, the staff and crews of the public utilities commission helped and that helped and water industry. i'm proud of their work and while we're grateful everyday for our first responders who risk their lives to protect and serve and for our police officers and firefighters who lost their lives years ago it's important we reflect on that. and certainly for our city. we've had our own including the rim fire the police and, of course, the fire department were there the first responders on a crash that will stick with me. we're living in an extraordinary city and you can is new year it that a lot of our residents are back to work. when we took office on january lifting our unemployment rates was 9 and a half percent today's it's 5.5 percent. this streamer important year our city netted over thirty thousand additional jobs and think about what the professor said about the multipleer effects. it's not just one i

but prince george's county fire officials worried the entire department's imagine would be tarnished if the volunteers raffled guns to raise money. >> we were just very uncomfortable with the gun show being held at one of our fire stations, a public safety agency, and we felt it was sending the wrong message. >> reporter: last year they moved the gun raffle to charles county and they're doing it again this year except this time they're teaming up with the volunteer fire department just over the line in charles county. the fund-raiser will be held eight their firehouse. i spoke with the chief for the volunteer fire department here and he didn't want to go on camera but explained to me that part of the reason for the fund-raiser is that facility right there. he says it's dated and talked about the truck that's more than 15 years old meaning it's way beyond it's expiration date. >> not trying to deny anybody their constitutional rights. things worked out in our favor that they were able to conduct their fund-raiser in a neighboring jurisdiction. >> tickets are $45 and there will be beer

all these other agencies are involved the fire department are involved they are involved in assembly occupancies with an occupant load of 50 or more. the building department looks at construction reasonable doubted things the fire department looks at fire and life safety regarding exiting and sprinklers. health department is involved and permitting and inspection. the entertainment commission, this is a new change within the last 5 years or so where any restaurant wants to have live entertainment or a dj or anything defined as entertainment by the city -- is it in the -- i don't remember the add min code, i believe for the entertainment commission. have you to get a special permit. and this is sometimes difficult to do because you might be in an area that's residential if you have a restaurant with live music you may find your plans are at odds with the neighborhood's desire for tranquillity. and in fact that's often the case in san francisco where we have conflicts with night time entertainment and the residents. public works, public works department regulates most restaurant permitt

, the sfmta which tom northern california land and ed are here today and our fire department represented by italy chief and our housing advertisement olsen their development group again working in concert, supervisor yee knows this he ngsz all the indict entities that had to come together even the people's vs. telethon church and i and the b of a has found a nice investment for them and their resources to come and blend in with everybody's interest. this is a transit rich corridor because of the bus loop and because of the way we've been viewing ocean avenue you'll see it's a great investment. now having kind of mentioned all the different elements i hope i didn't leave anybody out the great rich corridor that this has let's talk about this project. you're talking about 71 units all affordable units here and that affordability is necessary for this city 45 of those units are directed at families and affordability for them. and the other units 25 of those units are dedicated to transitional age youth people who are coming up u coming out of foster kids and into our system. we need to prov