and we have the executive director of the san francisco department of emergency management, mary ellen carroll here. mary ellen? [applause] >> good morning. welcome to san francisco. we're so happy and proud to have you here during fleet week. i was so fortunate yesterday to have the opportunity to sail in with many of the service men and women from the navy and the marines. it was an absolutely perfect -- picture perfect day in san francisco. so proud, and we hope everyone has a wonderful week while you're here. this is -- we learned yesterday, and as we'll see all week, there are so many incredible capabilities that our service men and women and organizations bring to san francisco that we will need in the event of a catastrophic earthquake or other emergency. and it is so important we are talking, practicing, getting to know each other, working out the lod logistics out here. this is not something that's easily doable in a moment without having practiced. i'm thrilled to be able to lean in this week during fleet week, and i want to talk a little bit about the folks that execute it from my t

(mary ellen carroll, sf dept of emergency management) it is so critical that we are talking, practicingg to know each other working out the logistics that you see out here this is not something that's easily executed in a momenttoday's disaster response drill centered around bringing fuel ...a resource that will be very scarce after a major quake....off naval ships....and into the hands of local authorities... i know that we're doing some after actions after what happened in puerto rico. the major concern was that he had we had fuel to deliver but we had no way to get that fuel inlet so these are the kinks that we're trying to work out in the wrinkles were trying to iron outboth the military and local and state agencies brought out their emergency communication systems.... this exercises for everyone to get all their toys out and see who can talk to who, what assets do you have what assets do we have can we talk via vhf, hf do you have satcom communications do you have satellite phones?it's questions like this....that are best to be worked out before a diaster...than during one.maureen

(mary ellen carroll, sf dept of emergency management)a catastrophic event, particularly the type of earthquake we are likely to experience in our lifetime many more resources will require many more resources then we have with in the city and probably with in the region. and what you're seeing her today and what you'll see all week is our efforts to partner to literally roll out the types of equipment to test the capabilities that we will meet in the event of a catastrophic disaster here in the citytoday's disaster response drill centered around bringing fuel ...a resource that will be very scarce after a major quake....off naval ships....and into the hands of local authorities...both the military and local and state agencies brought out their emergency communication systems.... this exercises for everyone to get all their toys out and see who can talk to who, what assets do you have what assets do we have can we talk via vhf, hf do you have satcom communications do you have satellite phones?it's questions like this....that are best to be worked out before a diaster...than during one.maureen ke

(mary ellen carroll, sf dept of emergency management)a catastrophic event, particularly the type of earthquakewe are likely to experience in our lifetime many more resources will require many more resources then we have with in the city and probably with in the region. and what you're seeing her today and what you'll see all week is our efforts to partner to literally roll out the types of equipment to test the capabilities that we will meet in the event of a catastrophic disaster here in the citytoday's disaster response drill centered around bringing fuel ...a resource that will be very scarce after a major quake....off naval ships....and into the hands of local authorities...both the military and local and state agencies brought out their emergency communication systems.... this exercises for everyone to get all their toys out and see who can talk to who, what assets do you have what assets do we have can we talk via vhf, hf do you have satcom communications do you have satellite phones?it's questions like this....that are best to be worked out before a diaster...than during one.maureen kel