my name is john corbett. i'm a fire protection engineer for the city of san francisco fire department. i've worked for the fire department for approximately 12 years, and in my time there, i have worked at plan check and now at the airport. so i'm up here to support mark. and when i first met mark, he was working as an engineer for a company, and it was on the other side of the table, as we call it. and he was very professional and responded well to my comments, and he was easy to work with. and his character was very quiet and calm, and, you know, i encouraged him to seek the job with the san francisco fire department, and he did ultimately take the test and obtain the job. and so i feel that he was a very good addition to our plan check team, and i'd just like to say that i don't know what happened, but i'm sure it was a very difficult situation for him. and as a -- when i went to work for the city of san francisco, it was a -- quite a change. i had worked in private industry for 20 years, and there was a l