pierre megaron gustavo and the lower merchant neighbors association. this is a great example of community pulling together. in the business that he is a partner to across the street from the three-story building that burned down and displaced 24 residents was across the street. he heard a loud bang. it went to the building itself. gustavo was a painter who happens to have a key and both of them went inside the building, knocking on doors. i think people thought that they were crazy solicitors. they kept at it persistently to get people out to evacuate them out of the building. they were successful,

pierre megaron gustavo and the lower merchant neighbors association. this is a great example of community pulling together. in the business that he is a partner to across the street from the three-story building that burned down and displaced 24 residents was across the street. he heard a loud bang. it went to the building itself. gustavo was a painter who happens to have a key and both of them went inside the building, knocking on doors. i think people thought that they were crazy solicitors. they kept at it persistently to get people out to evacuate them out of the building. they were successful, i think, because no lives were injured. no animals ha were injured or lost. what we saw, pretty amazing the way the damage was contained. it couldn't have been a more proud moment in the way the community pull together. i like to bring up gustavo. [applause] just so you know, this is not a unique situation, although it is in our commemoration of what had happened -- of what has happened earlier today. when i took office earlier today -- and i took office ear