this is a proud department with a proud history. we fight fires like no other fire department. we are community paramedicine and alternatives to policing. we are firefighter emt, firefighter paramedics, but we are so much more as you are going to find out during your careers. i do solemnly swear, that i will support and defend, the counsitution of the united states, and the constitution of the state of california, against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> today i graduated from san francisco 130 recruit class, and i became a san francisco firefighter. i feel absolutely amazing. i thought about how i feel graduating, but feeling it is crazy. i'm so so excited to get started. i will be in station 9 in the bayview. industrial part of the city and i'm extremely excited to do everything the truck does. learn how to raise and lower the aerial. get to all the different ladders and practice them in real life and apply them to situations that we are seen in the academy, but to see them in real life will be a brand new thing. [applause] >> going up to the stage to get my badge, i was

the oak lan fire department was the first fire department i did. d a firefighter one training program there. that got me into fire whim start the paramedic school i went to city college and fell in love with the city. i did nile internship at station 49. it was wonder. . i learned the san francisco wave doing things. like the wild, wild west, every day. i loved it was a family environment here. that made mow say san fan fire department, that's i didn't want to be. i avoided science my entire education up to becoming a paramedic. i failed my first time taking my emt registry. i hope well is nobody out there that gets discouraged if this happens. you have opportunity to take again. i d. i came back. took it, passed and continued to paramedic and pass the my registry the first time. being a woman in the fire department i am a minority here. a minority in multiple aspects. i'm a woman. biracial i'm the only black woman paramedic in the ems position. it is insane and i hope i encourage other women to join this profession that does not represent the city

the oak lan fire department was the first fire department i did. i did a firefighter one training program there. that got me into fire whim start the paramedic school i went to city college and fell in love with the city. i did nile internship at station 49. it was wonder. . i learned the san francisco wave doing things. like the wild, wild west, every day. i loved it was a family environment here. that made mow say san fan fire department, that's i didn't want to be. i avoided science my entire education up to becoming a paramedic. i failed my first time taking my emt registry. i hope well is nobody out there that gets discouraged if this happens. you have opportunity to take again. i d. i came back. took it, passed and continued to paramedic and pass the my registry the first time. being a woman in the fire department i am a minority here. a minority in multiple aspects. i'm a woman. biracial i'm the only black woman paramedic in the ems position. it is insane and i hope i encourage other women to join this profession that does not represent the

it's hard to nail down an exact total across the country in marion county, florida, the fire departmentso short staffed it can't keep up with the 911 demand. emergency calls have doubled there in the last decade. our correspondent dan lieberman has more on how that department is finding creative ways to recruit and serve the community. we had a lot of people who decided they didn't want to do this job anymore. we've got to figure out this problem. there's too much at stake. it's the nightmare scenario for us. fire administrator dr. lori moore, merrell. so there are departments right now across the us where the shortages are so severe that they have to just shut down operations. that's correct. particularly in the volunteer. guidry our volunteer stations, there are a lot that there's no one to respond. there are places where there is no one coming from miles away. volunteer and career fire departments are experiencing chronic staffing shortages, and chiefs across the nation are sounding the alarm. right now, i'm about 80 short. i need a little over 500 uniform personnel. so we're just tr

i just want to say too, thank you to all the people in our fire department who responded to the fires on my block of late and knocked them out very quickly. the whole neighborhood was so appreciative, felt cared for everyone was super professional of course, but i felt very proud to be a small part of that. how that happened. the point of personal privilege, the difficult situation with that house because it is two fires in the same home is emblematic of so much of what is wrong now and what's not working and so many departments telling not just me, but various people on my block, there is nothing we can do. to me that is unacceptable and the fire department did everything they can do, but there is reliance on other departments and it's harmful to all of us and all of our departments if we are not able to do anything in a situation that is dangerous, neglectful, abusive all most, and i'm not going into a lot of detail, about we can talk about all this later. i do want to say the fire department has been super responsive and i'm grateful for that. >> again, if i can say for clarificati

the fire department is a family. we live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. when i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. i didn't want to talk to any of my civilian friends. they couldn't understand what i was going through. the firefighters knew, they understood. they had been there. it is a different relationship. we have to rely on one another. in terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. that hasn't been there for a while. part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. i worked there. people know me and because i know what we need. i know w

what that means in the filing, the san francisco fire department cites 59 instances. we're autonomous vehicles have interfered with firefighters since april of last year. among the incidents failing to yield to fire vehicles, blocking fire vehicles driving over fire hoses and entering active emergency scenes and getting in the way of firefighters granting an unlimited expansion at this stage. >> probably a little bit premature. sam abuelsamid is a transportation analyst with guidehouse insights. i really don't think the technology is really quite mature enough. 2 start putting hundreds or tppotentially thousands of thes vehicles on the streets of san francisco or any other city for that matter. both waymo and cruise support. the cpu sees expansion. but in a statement, waymo says we will follow this development closely. and in the meantime, continue providing safe and accessible mobility to san franciscans. cruz says it's unfortunate to see the city use public resources to bypass that decision and restricted technology with an excellent safety record used by 10's of th

the fire department is a family. we live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. when i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. i didn't want to talk to any of my civilian friends. they couldn't understand what i was going through. the firefighters knew, they understood. they had been there. it is a different relationship. we have to rely on one another. in terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. that hasn't been there for a while. part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. i worked there. people know me and because i know what we need. i know w

other instances also include the autonomous vehicles actually kind of blocking a fire department. that is what the fire chief said in her presentation today and what the fire chief is saying is that they want to be able to have these autonomous cars operators be more transparent with them about the way those vehicles are programmed to operate and try to get the company to move them out of the way a whole lot faster. they say second count in an emergency and the fire chief says that her firefighters don't have time to try to move a vehicle out of the way. >> she has been very vocal about this over the past few weeks. obviously, people are poor and people are against driverless cars. what are people out there today telling you? >> reporter: so, at today's meeting, there were members of both who presented in front of the cpc and they say their data shows that the vehicles are overwhelmingly a. they say to each of their companies vehicles have longed millions of miles in the last several months and they do acknowledge there have been some instances where the vehicles were unexpectedly

but that is the next bond for the fire department. so it's quite a ways off on this past sunday, i went to two events. i went to the fire velo bike ride. folks came across the golden gate bridge from marin to station 51 in the presidio. and it is part of a group of folks that ride their bikes from here to los angeles to raise money for cancer prevention in the fire service. and we honored two of our fallen members, jerry murphy and brock wells and their families were there to take part in that. it was a nice event. and then i went to treasure island. there was a women's boot camp on treasure island on sunday. a lot of young women out there being sort of led and trained and mentored by a lot of our women in the department. and so it's really nice to see all our young women out there getting involved with this, with this event. and then as you all may know, i have been there have been a whole lot of interviews with the press regarding autonomous vehicles. and i don't think that we could have predicted it any better than we did when we sp

the fire department is a family. we live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. when i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. i didn't want to talk to any of my civilian friends. they couldn't understand what i was going through. the firefighters knew, they understood. they had been there. it is a different relationship. we have to rely on one another. in terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. that hasn't been there for a while. part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. i worked there. people know me and because i know what we need. i know w

every person has a good experience with the fire department. no one ever spokous they say, they are here. they're do this work and everybody loves them. not everybody gets that in their job. i don't do it for the recognition but niez nice to see people that respect had you do and know you did a lot to get here and you still do to work and you set your life on the line for other people. it is cool.

to be part of train and returning become to training i started off as a young officer with the fire department and went top train nothing 2012 this is full circle to lead train and move department forward i completed 21 years. and upon honors and grateful for this opportunity. thank you. >> good evening president nakajo. vice president morgan. commissioner feinstein, phraseir u collins, chief nicholson, i'm derrick miller earthquake safety and bond program. i will help over see the bob finance construction the fire training if sillity and also on the other projects from previous bond initiatives. i have been with the department for 23 years prior had 4 years with stockton fire department and before that time on a bls ambulance i served in many exclusive and an honor to be here and privilege to serve with the san francisco fire department. >> thank you. can you speak about your k-9 program you are involved in? >> since 2015 participating in our department's search and rescue k-9 program i'm partnered with riffa an urban search and rescue k-9 part of california task force that is a question i ge

death due to a gas explosion in a residential house in the south of tehran, the ceo of the tehran fire department said that the intensity of the explosion was such that in addition to this three -story building, several buildings around it, the wife of ershad samane 125 fire department, from the explosion and the subsequent collapse of several buildings in district 20 of tehran with a butcher i was informed, i returned to the shop, i returned once to this three-story turkish corner, that everything was complete, the laundry in the kitchen, because the fire department, along with the equipment, as well as other rescue teams , were sent to the scene of the accident due to an explosion caused by a gas leak in a unit. the intensity of the explosion was such that it caused the destruction of the three-story building and four adjacent buildings, and a quick response was released from the branches of the city and province of tehran in the area . he was also happy that 16 injured people were sent to the centers unfortunately, a 75-year-old woman died due to the severity of her injuries, and three people

sokhnan, the fire department.man rahim, it was at 12:34 p.m. today that the news of the collapse of several buildings under construction in the area around khalazir area of ​​ahmadiyeh town is announced . stone crane belonging to the organization is present at the site, the agents of the crisis headquarters of the red crescent, the police , the mayor of tehran was present at the site from the beginning, and when he reached the house, it was built, and i don't know how the passenger started the construction. fortunately, 2 people were able to get out of the rubble alive with the presence of the logistics teams for one hour and two hours. several large structures that are external obstacles and that is why the communication of the place you see goes well within a period of one hour. he managed to find two people who were completely buried under the rubble because of the large volume let's find them on the street, outside the city, unfortunately, both of them have been confirmed. currently, the video shows two people

within 10s dispatch call for the san francisco fire department to respond to the scene. patrol officers also advised dispatch of shots fired and quote, catalina and fairfax, one down, end quote. cvr officer one called a second 1025 before his transmission was cut short. patrol officers, one, two and three advanced towards mr. bluford to render aid and secure mr. bluford handgun patrol officer four observed bystanders shouting and approaching mr. bluford multiple officers gave commands for the bystanders to back away from mr. bluford and an unidentified person was heard yelling, quote, take the gun, end quote. patrol officer three moved towards mr. bluford and continued ordering the bystanders to back away from mr. bluford, patrol officer four moved towards mr. bluford, patrol officer for use his foot to slide the unsecured handgun away from mr. bluford. patrol officer four picked up mr. bluford handgun and later secured it in a marked patrol vehicle within 49 seconds of the eyes, officers approached mr. bluford, assessed him for injuries and initiated cpr. the cvr officer

you have the heavy equipment and fire department apparatus. e swift water teams and our local fire stations are ready and trained. we're standing by waiting for those calls to come in. the biggest thing is if we ask you to evacuate to do so. >> reporter: the evacuations started last night. are you preparing for potentially more as the rain shifts in? >> the situation is fluid and we're monitoring we do have some evacuation orders near oakland and if we ask you to leave, we're not taking that lightly. we want you to get out of there. >> reporter: you talk about the fires. the land impacted by those fires also poses a challenge for you potentially with that flooding. tell us about that. >> we've had some major wildfires in our area so we're seeing significant mud flow and rain flow coming off those impacted areas. the big thing is we're working with our local county and state agencies and we've been doing tons of prep work. we had a significant rain season this year. >> chief, thank you so much for being with us. i know you have a large area to m

we asked the fire department. it but not able to say exactly what may have caused those explosions just yet. >>> with a check of the weather, let's get a look with first alert meteorologist, jessica burch. >> the difference from thursday and friday as we will see the clouds rolling in from tropical storm eugene. it is currently over southern california . by the time it makes it up to us tomorrow, we will see the clouds left over. that keeps us nice and cool for our friday forecast. take it a step back and look at today. 60s along the coast. 80s just into the santa clara valley. as we head into the east bay, if you want to take a bike for a nice ride around the neighborhood or head out to your local park, this is the weather to do it. beautiful sunshine off into the east inland hills. it is cool and cloudy along the coast. simpson beach down into daly city, even in san francisco. the peninsula will see nice conditions today. as we head up into ukiah, 90s are expected with upper 80s for our friends in wine country j

within 10s dispatch call for the san francisco fire department to respond to the scene. patrol officers also advised dispatch of shots fired and quote, catalina and fairfax, one down, end quote. cvr officer one called a second 1025 before his transmission was cut short. patrol officers, one, two and three advanced towards mr. bluford to render aid and secure mr. bluford handgun patrol officer four observed bystanders shouting and approaching mr. bluford multiple officers gave commands for the bystanders to back away from mr. bluford and an unidentified person was heard yelling, quote, take the gun, end quote. patrol officer three moved towards mr. bluford and continued ordering the bystanders to back away from mr. bluford, patrol officer four moved towards mr. bluford, patrol officer for use his foot to slide the unsecured handgun away from mr. bluford. patrol officer four picked up mr. bluford handgun and later secured it in a marked patrol vehicle within 49 seconds of the eyes, officers approached mr. bluford, assessed him for injuries and initiated cpr. the cvr officer

san francisco fire investigators with our fire department. we'll be looking for an actual origin, which is where the fire started. and then it caused what caused that fire within that specific area. we utilized accelerant, k9, through the mutual aid system from contra costa. that canines name was baxter, a no relationship and that canine basically assists our investigators in adding something to the investigation or deleting something from that investigation. it's part of the totality of this incident. our investigators will be looking at determining that actual origin and cause, and that information will come out at a later time. okay. captain jonathan baxter, san francisco fire department, thank you so much for joining us. i know that there are other outlets that are looking to speak with you as well, so we'll let you go. so again, at this time, the cause of this fire is still under investigation. we have talked with some neighbors in the area who had expressed concerns they say that they have seen people break into this construction scene b

. >>> i'm currently an h2 firefighter for the san francisco fire department. i served active duty in the navy. i wanted something that was going to be in the medical field, but not necessarily stay in a hospital setting and i didn't want to stay in an office and this job kind of combines everything i was looking for. everyday's different. there's always something new and to learn. and my first introduction to the department was being surrounded by people of the lgbtq community. and so we were able to get, you know, it just made things a little more comfortable that you could talk to people about things that people necessarily wouldn't understand. i've had to hide myself. able to come out. being able to understand many his and being able to do things in had that sense, it's very liberating to be able to speak like this, this city in particular, it's a mecca for the lgbtq+ community. you know, there's so much history behind it and being part of this community that now accepting us for who we are and what we do, we're able to just be ourselves. any time somebody

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fire department has a lot of concerns around lithium ion batteries. there is press around the fire started particularly by electric scooters and other types of mobile batteries and i think we are looking to explore are there ways to-what are the fire safety characteristics of the home storage batteries that typically install along with roof top solar, and looking at is there a way to delineate a safer category of battery that we can allow without installing sprinklers that is prohibitive, which is a area that is really limiting the expansion of significant battery storage in san francisco. that's the first phase we are tackling and goting initial comments from those departments i mentioned and excited to dig into that. planning a second phase that looks at broader fildings, multifamily apartments, looking front of the meeting storage and then host of related issues around labor and workforce issues while customer technical support is needed to ramp up. just looking for a study to point the way on policies and regulations that can promote really expandi

oakland fire department tells us the fire is contained but it is going to burn for a while. it is quite involved. a large plume of dark gray smoke will continue to follow this at fits? er steel in oakland. part of our commitment to building a bay area -- better bay area involves education. teachers in alameda scored a victory after an appeals court ruled that the school district can continue to collect a partial tax that helps supplement teachers' salaries. reporter: good for education. that's the reason a majority of alameda voters passed proposition a in 2020, a partial tax that generates an extra $10 million a year for about 450 teachers and 650 district staff. >> in a market that is pretty thin and competitive right now, you better have a salary offering and a befores offering that's competitive. >> our education system needs as much support as we can get and the population of alameda voted for it. >> they've earned that and we need to place education much higher in our priorities than we do. >> the -- this particular tax collects 26.5 cents per square foot on basic live

all he is requesting the fire department step up. >> first responders rushing in. remnants of homes are scattered throughout the area. cars now charred debris surround ending this children's playground. i can remember what these houses looked like, like i'm shaking like i know what they looked like before. >> and now this. and i just can't believe it. it's unreal. >> three residents were hospitalized, one remains in critical condition. 18 fire departments responded, 57 firefighters were treated on scene for minor injuries. officials say the investigation could take months, if not years. jacqueline lee, abc news, new york. >> jacqueline, thank you. now to a special celebration in texas. >> yes, meet elizabeth francis. last week, the houston woman celebrated, get this, her 114th birthday. she was joined by five generations of her family, including her 94 year old daughter and 68 year old granddaughter. >> when asked how it feels to be 114, ms. francis said, i don't know. i just thank the good lord for keeping me. so some stats your way, by the way. there are now more

ordered the city to publicly release the final report on the investigation into the san jose fire department. that investigation started when we showed you video that showed a bikini-clad woman stepping out of a fire truck and then walking right into a strip club. nbc bay area's damian trujillo broke that story. tonight he has the answers that the department had been refusing up to now to give us. >> reporter: the investigative report names names for the first time, but it also answers a key question -- it also raises a lot of questions about the integrity of the firefighters involved and why the city doled out so little punishment. this is the viral cell phone video that had everyone asking, what's going on at the san jose fire department? since the video hit the air, answers about what happened have been hard to come by. in the months that followed, our source has helped uncover pieces of the story. r ple, firefighters told inveors they wgiving the n, a club employee, a rideound t block aft she manded it. th invgative uni learned the fire trucke aecond reing.a.j.'s bikini bar before this r

the fire department got the call a little before 12:30 p.m. redwood city fire officials say it was not a lab leak. some employees were working in a so-called clean room used for hydraulic assembly. something happened that released an unknown chemical. the entire building was evacuated. fire officials say 19 employees were potentially exposed and five of them were treated at the scene for symptoms ranging from bloody noses to nausea and vomiting. now hazmat crews need to go in and investigate what caused the leak. >> this is not something that we do quickly. we take our time and do this very safely when we're dealing with chemicals and when there's not an emergency when someone needs a rescue, we'll take our time. >> the fire department says this is isolated to the building, so you don't need to worry in you live or work nearby. >>> to the east bay, a deadly freeway shooting under investigation by chp, detective its now searching for the gunman. this happened on the night of july 28th in orinda th is just east of st. 24 pulled behind another car

can in justine, the fire department and the hazmat from san mateo. >> and redwood city just left the scene that chemical leak was free. on a walk you through a little bit of what happened. this the deputy fire chief tells me around 12, 30 this afternoon a call came in people inside of this building complaining of nausea, 2 of them even had a blood. he 21 people potentially exposed. they monitor the those people left the building. none of them went to the hospital. they have since been released. now the fire department telling me they tested all different gas is only thing that tested positive was free on. here's what happened. hvac unit failed and pumped free on into the work space. now everyone got out of the building quickly. the levels they say we're not hazardous inside, but that hvac unit, the fire department had to take this afternoon hours up until just right now at 6 o'clock trying to find out exactly which hvac unit they would like building maintenance repair that unit on. as far i asked them, will people be allowed back inside tomorrow? he is not exactly sure they want to ma