one is the report from the nfpa. i was proud to be selected as a member.008. i don't travel that often. i have been asked and it just wasn't working out. this year i was able to attend and adopt a number of position papers including on active after hours reports. and using data to report response capability and resilience. smart cities and active shooter and hostile threat assessments. always very valuable to meet with my colleagues. there was about eight big city, large urban city chiefs. most of them got 2 feet -- meet a few new ones. i found that to be very valuable thank you for that support of the endeavour. and i wanted to point out the great selection -- i'm really proud of this document. there is not a day that goes by that i don't think of the loss of tony valerio. through the good work of our department and with assistance from an external investigation, there were a number of areas that we found could have been improved in terms of -- it is always a risky environment when we are responding to fires. in one of the areas that we honed in on was a