i'm valerie brown with the lower hate neighborhood organization. we are here today at the neighborhood empowerment network to talk about safety on your streets. this actual workshop is what we call a 30,000 feet aerial view of what we do. the lower haight motd we created a few models for safety and some are complex and a lot of information. we are going to give you just a little bit of this today. we will talk about how to connect with the different city agencies, your supervisors, your captain at our station. the city attorney's office and beat officers or street officers. one of the things that i would like toit introduce the panel. captain from northern station. regina from the legislative aid of ross mirkarimi one of our supervisors. from the da's office. the president of our merchant's association of the lower haight. ron, a beat officer and antoine another beat officer. the city attorney was at our morning session this morning and had to leave. regina and i work with the city attorneys office and will talk about that today in the lower haight

valerie has painful memories of last time she used pyrex. >> i removed my dish, closed the oven, turned, started to walk towards the consider, and boom, exploded. >> reporter: she was browning chicken under the broiler, something the instructions say not to do. her friend, carla fadden, however, was simply baking tomales when this? >> boom, i opened the oven, and to my great surprise, there was a moltedden melted mass. >> reporter: prompted by stories like valerie and carla, consumer reports conducted a one-year investigation of glass bake wear. it found reports of 163 shattering incidents, with 442 reports of injuries. it also prepared american-made pyrex and anchor hawking glass bake wear, made of soda lime glass to more expensive european pyrex made of a different material. testers put dry sand in the bake wear, which gets hotter than food, and put the dishes in an oven for 80 minutes at 450 degrees. then, straight from the oven, the dishes were placed on a wet granite counter. something else the product tells you not to do. 10 out of 10 times, the american-made bake wear broke. the european bake wear stayed intact at the same temperature. it finally broke at 500 degrees