chief jeanine nicholson. this is my report for march 24th. good news in the city we are now starting told in the orange tier, which opens up a lot more things in terms of activities and retail and hopefully we can get a jump start to this economy. as you know, we are a general funded department. it is offices, nonessential offices will open up to 25%, some entertainment stuff opened, some recreation, dining, gyms, all sorts of things. that is good, but please keep wearing your masks for right now people, appreciate it. because we are in the orange tier the covid command center at moscone center is shutting down. each department can run their own command out of their operations center. we can run out of the fdoc on the second floor at headquarters. the vaccination process is continuing to ramp-up, which is great. i believe we have over 40% of san francisco vaccinated at least one dose right now. i understand the next five and a half weeks enough doses for every san franciscan. that is great news. we will be assisting with vaccinations on treas

chief jeanine nicholson. president feinstein, commissioners, if i could ask my command staff to appear on camera. just briefly, i want to first start off by thanking chief for his service at the division of training. he has been there quite a few years. i want to thank him for his dedicated service. also, welcome our new edc of training who is, of course, true to his nature off teaching a class today. that is why you see him with palm trees in the past. i want to introduce the new chief. a master instructor who is wearing to go. please introduce yourself to the commission. >> absolutely. good morning, president feinstein, vice president rodriguez, commissioners, chief, command staff. i am honored to be the new assistant deputy chief of training. i appreciate all of your support and you have my dedication to developing our greatest resource. i am excited. i want to thank the chief as well. thank you for having me. i am honored and i can't wait to work with you all. >> thank you for that introduction. i am sorr

i know what they need to be successful. >> i have known jeanine nicholson since we worked together at station 15. i have always held her in the highest regard. since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. she is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. i appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the fire department today. >> there is a retired captain who started the cancer prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were getting cancer. he started looking into it. in 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the san francisco fire department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. it was a higher rate than the general population. we were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didn't have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. the turnout gear was covered with suit. it was a badge to have that all over your coat and face and hel