now, vince was quite the opposite. vince had the unique ability to not listen to a story and all the altar boys from station 7 -- it was like a reunion of all the guys that work together in the '90s. in fact, one altar boy discovered this trait of vince's where he would talk to vince, and he would say is that right? and he would give this little nervous laugh and this would go on and on throughout the conversation. and finally after years of doing this, someone turned to him and said vince, you haven't heard a word i have said, have you. vince said no, brother, sorry, you guys just aren't that interesting. [ laughter ] >> to this day, uh-huh is that right is the key to station 7 to shut up, you're boring the hell out of us. we can also talk about them professionally. vince was the fireman's fireman. he was big. he was strong. he was aggressive. and he was one of the best. he was always the first one in the door and he was always the guy to grab the nozzle. and through the with the fire, vince was the guy that was going

and vince and i would frequent discuss who was most at fault. i said vince that was me. i was next in age. you helped raise me up in the neighborhood i should have been there. and he would tell me no alex, you have four daughters, that's on me. so we go back and forth. and you know we still have to work that out but he's out there with david right now. so he's out there. i just wrote something, and i'm going to read it directly but it definitely gives you a little bit from my brother in the beginning and it gives you a little bit to the end. one of the greatest things about san francisco is how it embraces and blends its different cultures, does it like no other city. our parents migrated from mexico to the perfect place, the city. san francisco is a large city, but it works a small town feel with how we're all connected by our neighborhoods. you meet someone from the city, there's a bond. it takes just a few questions to find a connection. our neighborhoods are a great source of pride with us. it's part of who we are. since this incident i have spoken to some of vincent

and vince was without a water supply.n an entire city block to get his own supply and probably saved the lives of those men in the fire. now tony he came to the department in a different way. tony was a free spirited medic with the department of public health who eventually became a firefighters. he was a pony tail hippie who called himself the people paramedic. he had a big heart. and he loved to help sick disabled down trodden and even the unwashed. he was like mother teresa with a sire siren. one of the can lines to elderly women when he was helping them up he would say hug me lake i'm your husband then after he put them down he would tell them i don't think you really love your husband that much. i didn't feel it. about to say that vince and tony were very different people would be an under statement. vince was a former marine. tony was a world traveling hippie. vince worked on classic cars and hot rods. tony was your ban chicken farmer. vince had an amazing economy of words and tony had an inability to put a period o

vince was a former marine and tony was a world traveling hippy.ced on classic cars and hot rod and tone was a urban chicken farmer . vince had a economy of word and tony had an inability to put a period on the end of the sentence. vince loved to work out and tony loved yoga. the immortal word st. francis summed them up the best. nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing so gentle as real strength. vincent and tony were our gentle and our strengths. together, gentleness and strength stood on that fateful day that brought us here to this service. together, gentleness and strength went in harm's way and together gentleness and strength have left us. vincent and tony were two men who had every gifts but lengths of years and they dedicated their lives to serving other and they were role models not in just how they died but most importantly how they lived. >> tom o'conner local 7 president speaking. >> you can imagine the logistics and trying to coordinate the ladder trucks and fire engines and at least 200 that we know of. that means a lot of road

vince had an amazing economy of words.riod on the end of a sentence. [ laughter ] >> vince loved to work out. and tony loved yoga. i think the immortal words of saint francis sums them up the best. nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. >> i think that my brother will live in the hearts of anyone who came in contact with him. friends and coworkers and the thousands of people that he probably met and hundreds that he saves while working for this wonderful city, i think that the best way we can honor him is to try something you never thought you could do or travel somewhere you have always wanted to go, try food from a different culture and be friends with anybody you meet. tony lived like to the fullest and we should follow his example. tony died doing something he loved and surrounded by those who loved him. we'll miss him, we'll miss his smile, his jokes, his funny little walk, the fact that he was always late because he didn't care. he knew he would get there and we would be waiting

if there was a fire, vince was the one that was going to put it out. >> vince lived his life to the fullest and we should all follow his example. >>> tony valerio he went from south city to sf state. he surfed the waters right to station 26. >> thank you for being part of our family. we will miss you. you left us way too soon, the best ones always do. bon voyage as you begin your next adventure. aloha. >> vince perez a native from the mission district went from the marines and also station 26. >> the amount of pure love i sensed for my brother vince in that fire house was overwhelming. i knew right then no question, my brother went to battle with the best of the best. >> the helmets they wore now in the hands of those they loved. where memories of heros can forever be held for their hearts and the others who they went to battle with. >> together gentleness and strength went into harm's way. and today gentleness and strength have left us. thank you for the gift of your live, may you rest in peace. >>> the last alarm for perez and valerio was sounded by engine 26 company chief. the final pray

. >> vince and tony, may god bless you and may you rest in peace. >> vince perez and tony valereo, two men who loved life and loved their jobs as firefighters. good evening. i'm dan ashley. one thing was made clear today. these two men were well liked and well respected a profoundly moving service that brought the brotherhood of firefighters together in a way that only the saw lem naughty of an event like this really can. thomas roman is here with a look at what was tomas a very moving day. >> dan, the memorial was an opportunity for family friends and co-workers to describe what the two men meant to them and the city of san francisco. they also spoke of the vacuum their deaths have left in many lives. it was a solemn memorial and grand celebration of two san francisco firefighters' lives here at saint mary's cathedral. >> there are no words that can describe the pain and hurt that we feel. there are no words that can even begin to do justice to the sacrifice that has been made. >> that sacrifice was made by vincent perez and valereo. they died as a result of a fire they were fighting

>> fue un bravo y valiente bombero. vamos a extrañar mucho a vince pero nunca lo vamos a olvidar. >>(hablan en ingles) >> a mi hermano tú eres ahora libre ,te vere denuevo no solo ahora todavía. >> por su parte el hermano de antony valero parecía que la estación de bombero era su segundo hogar, señaló. >> llegaron bomberos de todo el pasi a verlos. >> es difícil perder un hjermano, hacemos el mismo

vince is a hero. and he has a lot of friends that love him and care for him. >> reporter: valerio remains on life support in critical condition. his family is by his side. >> i'm not doing as great now as i was doing. starting to get to me a little more. you know? but hopefully, hopefully within the next -- he survived the night and lasted this long. hopefully he will be able to make it you know, a full recovery but... >> reporter: this tragedy has touched so many people in the bay area. today, the santa clara county firefighters brought lunch to the grieving members of fire station 26. and tonight the san francisco police officers plan to cater to the six fire stations that contributed and helped in the fire yesterday. so allen, this is certainly asking that's touching everybody. and even in their sorrow, the firefighters here in this city continue to answer calls. >> they have to. they do their jobs. and they don't look the other way. linda, thanks so much. >>> we can tell you tonight that services

there's just an overwhelming outpouring of support for tony and vince. and i want tonight and tomorrow especially to be a fitting tribute to them. they gave their lives in the line of duty and trying to protect others. >>> reporter: lieutenant vince perez and firefighter paramedic tony valerio were killed last week while battling a house fire in diamond heights. fellow firefighters at their station remain on duty as always answering calls for help duty that's tough there's days because of their grief. >> the sadness is with any loss of life in our family or in your own family, that the moments or the days leading up to the actual burial of someone that's passed, it's always a challenging time. >> reporter: during the services from noon to about 3 p.m., geary boulevard from davisidero to geoff will be shut down completely some 200 fire trucks expected. any city firefighter who wants to may attend the services. outside agencies will help cover city emergencies. >> we are doing something we have never done before, taking up the offer of the surrounding agen

was a labor -- vince courtney and is very supportive of the project as i think we all should be. we may be different on parts of it and points out what is really essential. and i think i speak for the vast majority of patients at cal pacific and those who pay for medical insurance or their employers. i personally go to kaiser but they have the ability to go to where they want to and choose their own doctors. and if we don't build state-of-the-art hospitals, there's a good chance many of these people will go elsewhere, even outside san francisco. ened you -- and you hear of people who go to other hospitals because they get care for a veert of -- variety of reasons. it's essential we do this to keep our employees employed, to make health care accessible to our san francisco residents and also for the 35% or so who come from outside san francisco for care at cal pacific. so i think it's really important that we compare this hospital with hospitals that are comparable to it, not hospitals that are not comparable. when we do comparisons we have to talk about stanford, mills peninsula,

vince is a hero. and he has a lot of friends that love him and care for him. >> reporter: valerio remains on life support in critical condition. his family is by his side. >> i'm not doing as great now as i was doing. starting to get to me a little more. you know? but hopefully, hopefully within the next --he survived the night and lasted this long. hopefully he will be able to make it you know, a full recovery but... >> reporter: investigators want know what caused the conditions that led to the possible flashover. they have seen this before. in 1995 a similar fire in the same neighborhood killed another firefighter. they know this diamond heights neighborhood with steep cliffs is challenging. >> what might have happened is that the window broke possibly and all the fire went back up into the building and it's like a chimney effect and they were caught in the chimney. we are still doing the investigation right now. but that's what happened in 1995 when we lost the lieutenant. and everyone going to th

vince and tony gave it all and for that we will be e tenderly grateful. >> committed to public service. >> my brother vinnie died doing what made him come hay live. he got a great deal of joy and fulfillment from being a man of service. >> to my brother, now you are free. i will see you again, but not yet. not yet. >> valerio, the friendly world traveler, athlete, and urban chicken farmer with a sense of humor. >> we were buddies off the job as well. we volunteered on the overdose team so we could get into rock concerts for free. >> tony was a free spirited medic within the department of public health who became a firefighter. he was a hippy who called himself the people's paramedic. >> san francisco's largest firefighter funeral in 60 years brought out dignitaries, governor jerry brown and nancy pelosi. 5,000 uniformed firefighters came from all over the country and canada. >> we never met them, but they are brothers. so we feel like we know them. >> after the afternoon long funeral mass, a procession of fire trucks accompanied the family to a private burial in colma. traffic stacked

so you know what, vince had his own co team six, engine 26. thank you so much. there's been a couple of important people in my brother's life, first to my daughters. diana, lexus, whitney. you guys were special to your uncle. to my brother, he loved you guys. to his nieces, veronica, alicia, kristi that, same thing. you guys were in his heart. every conversation we had. his nieces would pop up. two very special kids out there, when my brother and i would talk, he opened up to me about them. and engine 26 i have an assignment for you to find out who they are. i'm going to give you their nicknames he had for them. he named them salami and proscrumpious. i'm not going to tell you their names but he nicknamed. he said alex those are like my kids. so you guys honor my brother the way me lived his life and the decisions he made. special man, my brother's life. i have to give much respect to my oldest brother, sergeant lucio perez of the san francisco police department. growing up in the neighborhood we did. there was a lot of violent criminals out there on the street

vince and tony gave it all and for that we will be e tenderly grateful. >> perez remembered as a fireman'sireman. >> my brother, vinnie, died doing what made him come alive. he got a great deal of joy and fulfillment from being a man of service. >> to my brother, now you are free. i will see you again, but not yet. not yet. >> valerio, the friendly world traveler, athlete, and urban chicken farmer with a sense of humor. >> we were buddies off the job as well. we volunteered on the overdose team so we could get into rock concerts for free. >> tony was a free spirited medic with the department of public health who eventually became a firefighter. he was a hippy who called himself's the people's paramedic. [ bell ringing ] >> san francisco's largest firefighter funeral in 60 years brought out dignitaries, governor jerry brown and house democratic leader, nancy pelosi. uniformed firefighters came from all over the country and canada. >> we never met them, but they are brothers, so we feel like we know them. >> after the afternoon long funeral mass, a procession of fire trucks accompanied the f

. >>> our big story, the man who said mayor vince gray paid him to be a bad guy testifies in front of a council hearing today. sulaimon brown has claimed that gray's people paid him to stay in the race for mayor and bad mouth men then mayor adrian fenty. he said he was promiseed a job which he got but then was later fired. from he said he will show the committee several money orders from gray's camp. he said the fbi got dna from envelopes used to deliver money from gray's campaign. with all that talking to us, it took a superior court judge to get him to talk to council. >> i'm sort of surprised by this because i hay conversation with mr. brown before the investigation began. he said he was very happy to do that, didn't need a subpoena. >> she says she just wants to know if brown really got his city job through a promise from the current mayor, vince gray and how to stop that from happening again. >>> developments are expected today in another city hall controversy. d.c.'s attorney general is expected to meccan announcement about the investigation into exactly how d.c. council man har

fellow firefighter vince perez died thursday. both were fighting that house fire in the city's diamond heights neighborhood when they were caught in a flash of flames. a third firefighter was injured but treat expected released. >>> it is known as the silent killer, but according to one study 90% of you don't have the tools in your home needed to detect it. ktvu' mike mibach tells us about a new law to reduce the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. >> reporter: a home appliance store in san francisco from hammers to paint, washers and driers, cabinets and sinks, the auctions are unlimited. what's the civic product being pushed today? they're carbon monoxide detectors and have to be inside your home by july 1st and statewide all because of senate bill 183. >> we didn't know about the carbon monoxide one. >> most people don't think about anything that has to do with science. >> reporter: most people don't seem to know about california's new carbon monoxide prevention law that requires all single family homes to have a detector insta

mary's cathedral in san francisco to remember perez -- >> vince was a fireman's firemen. he was big, he was strong, he was aggressive, and he was one of the best. >> reporter: and valerio. >> he was a ponytail hippee who called himself the people's paramedic. >> reporter: two very different men who share the same calling. >> make no mistake, these men are gladiators. they fight fire, one of the most powerful forces created by god to save lives. >> reporter: the firefighters from engine company 26 were killed battling what was supposed to be a routine house fire in diamond heights last week. >> and i couldn't shake it was that i wanted to be in that house with my brother. and i say that with all apologies to my four daughters. >> reporter: now two families mourn while the san francisco fire department tries to make sense of the department's deadliest call in 65 years. >> they had a great leader on that day. and engine 26 was properly trained and they were ready for that mission, and although my brother had a strong will, nothing is greater than the will of god. to my broth

in contrast to some of vince's suggestions. doubts about the fed independence seem an inevitable consequence of its extraordinary actions to contain the crisis. important concerns include the fed's interaction with treasury during the crisis and the unprecedented scale and composition of the fed's balance sheet. however, dodd-frank per se is not a key driver of these concerns. i should note that earlier versions of dodd-frank did threaten fed independence. for example, the house bill included provisions that could have fostered politically-motivated scrutiny of monetary policy decisions. it also could have politicized senior appointments to the federal reserve district banks. fortunately, the final dodd-frank act shed most of these expressions of populist revolt. by delaying the release of details about fed crisis operations, the final dodd-frank act also achieved a better balance between the need for fed transparency and accountability and the need to insure central bank effectiveness as a lender of last resort. even so, conce

and before no. 8, i would like to adjourn tonight's meeting in the memory of firefighters vince perez and tony valerio. all in favor? we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> many people are not aware of this building was built in 1936. as a board to preserve the history and make the students aware of that history. the partnering between sfmoma and the arts commission means they will be more aware of the artwork that we have here, the artists that painted a, and the history behind this itself. >> students came from george washington, and it was wonderful to have them on a panel. people from the school board, those who have been painting for years, some conservative errors from the getty. to have them tell us about the works of their school was important. it represents african-american artists to during the 20's and 30's used an incredible body of work. it is one of the most incredible works of art in the city, bar none. it is a huge mural of incredible works. >> the san francisco civic arts collection has been in existence since the turn of the century. it consists of everything from monume

. >> fue un bravo y valiente bombero. vamos a extrañar mucho a vince pero nunca lo vamos a olvidar. >ingles) >> a mi hermano tú eres ahora libre ,te vere denuevo no solo ahora todavía. >> por su parte el hermano de antony valero parecía que la estación de bombero era su segundo hogar, señaló. >> llegaron bomberos de todo el pasi a verlos. >> es difícil perder un hjermano, hacemos el mismo trasbajkpo entre todos, sea acá en sanfrancisco oh en sandiego. >> la ultima vez que había m,uerto un bombero fue en el 2006. >> en el 46 4 bomberos murieron en un incendio, habían pasado 6 decadas desde esto. >> he venido porque ellos son los héroes, no es el american idol, son ellos. >> cordero de dios! >> según se informo el departamento de bomberos, un problema dce orden electrico origino el incendio. >> quwr fue lomas impresionante de la ceremonia? >> ver tanta cantidad de bomberos, policías y más. >> todos los apagafuego de sanfrancisco estaban en la catedral, pero quiénes se quedaron a cuidar por los incendios? >> bomberos de las casa de servicio de alameda reemplazaron a sus hermanos bomberos

vince and tony gave it all. and for that, we will be internally grateful. >> the funeral brought out dignitaries, including mayor ed lee, and congresswoman nancy pelosi. 5000 uniformed firefighters came from all over north america. firefighters accompanied the family to a private burial in colma. >>> firefighters who stood on the shore while a man walked into the bay first said they were not certified to rescue him. they explained a lack of training funds. turns out, they did have the money. kristen ayers on the untapped resources. >> reporter: delores barry buried her stepson, raymond zach, 10 days after firefighters, police and bystanders watched for an hour as zach drowned just off crown beach without ever intervening. >> i was just really angry. >> hurry up! he's way out there! >> we're going to get someone. >> he can't swim. >> reporter: on 911 tapes, barry can be heard desperately asking to save her suicidal stepson. firefighters were not trained for water rescue, because they didn't have the funds for tra

plenty of fireworks in the pay for play scandal involving vince gray. >> sulaiman brown got into verbal council members while giving testimony. audrey barnes is live with more of the showdown. it was quite a showdown. >> reporter: it was a showdown. but sulaiman brown spent his afternoon in the spotlight hiding behind his sunglasses, which he refused to remove during that hearing. at least one council member was so upset by that she refused to ask him any questions. she said until he took those sunglasses off, she was not going to acknowledge his presence. but david catania tried to get sulaiman brown that he was fine getting the illegal campaign contributions and city job until he got fired. >> mr. brown, you have -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> he has already called me a criminal. before you ask me one question off the record -- >> you've as much admitted you're a criminal. >> and in our you're sitting there -- >> you're sitting here testifying to your criminality, money laundering -- >> before you ask me one question on or off the record, you went on news talk 8 on march the 30th and

. >> i had the great fortune to work every day with vince perez for about ten years when i was learning to be a firefighter and i can say today that san francisco suffered a great loss with the loss of vince perez. a great friend. a great firefighter. a great son. a great brother. >> reporter: the firefighter fighting fir his life is 53-year-old anthony va lehr owe. he is in critical condition. the woman has treated and released. she was treated for smoke inhalation. all three are from station 26. more about lieutenant perez, who passed away, the union president said he was a firefighter's fireman. the first one in and the last one out. a u.s. marine and sheriff's depu deputy, but his dream was to be a firefighter. his mother is local. when she was told he passed away, she just couldn't bring herself to come to the hospital. he has two brothers who are police officers, so civil service was in the family. again, the san francisco fire department is mourning the loss of lieutenant pereira and hoping another pulls through. live in san francisco, jean elle. >> thank you. firefighter perez w

just for the record, firefighter vince perez is the brother of lucille perez who is part of our family. item one? >> approval of the minutes from the may 25, 2011 meeting. president mazzucco: commissioners, any corrections or additions? commissioner chan: one correction, very minor. i was not present at this meeting. i would just change that. president mazzucco: ok, make that amendment. is there any public comment for the minutes or the change that was made? hearing none, do i have a motion? all in favor? the motion is passed. call line item number 2. >> item number 2 is general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not the individual commissioners or department or occ personnel. and the police commission rules of order, during public comment, neither police nor occ personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public, but may p

commissioner courtney: i'm vince courtney. from the laborers. >> very good. thank you very much. [applause] commissioner moran: applause for everyone on the commission and i really want to say thank you to juliet. i know that she stomped this community. the focus group met with us as commissioners to formulate a report tonight. i think the summation of the next steps came from what she heard in the community had a they compile this and put it together. i want to say thank you very much for that. i think you have heard from the community. you have heard what the community wants. maybe we can send them other places to get what they need such as the young ladies there. especially if you're going to begin the shuttle service between this campus and i think this is been very fruitful. it has been long. you have to be patient and listen to people because we don't stop and listen. these advances go produce -- maybe you don't have a yard, but i don't know anything about this. maybe you are neighbors. >> supervisor kennedy, thank you for joining with us. we came here to listen and you hel

vince cent perez 48 years old. another firefighter is fighting for his life at this hour. they were badly injured this morning fighting a hoyce fire in the city's diamond heights neighborhood. we are hearing from fire investigators, they were caught in a flash over and heated gases suddenly ignite and neighbors describe for us how quickly it unfolded. >> i saw the fire men gearing up and i didn't see much smoke and then tons of black smoke billowing out. i thought maybe i needed to leave my house. >> the four residents escaped without injuries and the third firefighter was treated and released. we'll have live updates. >> and warning tonight for anyone with a gas enclosed fireplace. there are protective screens for the product. there is increasing pressure on the industry to make the products safer. it was reported by the fair warning.org. heather ishimaru is live with us in oakland. >> in a class action lawsuit settlement approved by the federal judge. lennox fireplace will have to offer to send protective screens and pay 493 million in legal fees to the law if i weres in

and before no. 8, i would like to adjourn tonight's meeting in the memory of firefighters vince perez and tony valerio. all in favor? we are adjourned. >> thank you. >> a good morning. the san francisco california. this is going to appear and broadcast throughout the country. so we're very excited today to post the white house used the round table, and we're honored to be here with the staff -- and before i go into any of this, i just want to mention the all the guests were residents of san francisco. and we are so happy they came back to san francisco. in a separate from the department of children, youth, and their families. i am joined by mayor lee with the housing and equal opportunity of washington d.c.. and this is from the san francisco office. we're going to hand this over to merely. i am so sorry. the supervisor for the bayview district, and of course, president of the san francisco board of education -- thank you for joining us. >> we have a lot of work to do it in the community. this is one of my favorite places, to be here. we have the director of children, youth, and famil

. >> vince was a fire man's fire man. big and strong and ark gressive and he was one of the best. will always the first to grab the nozzle and put the fire out. tony was a free spirited medic with the department of public health and became a firefighter. he was a pony tailed hippy that called himself the people's paramedic . he had a big heart and loved the help the sick and drown trodden and even the unwashed. he was like mother theresa with a siren. that was tom oconner. he had another antidote. he was a good paramedic and had a canned response for elderly women who might have fainted or passed out. hug him as hard as they could and hard as they would hug their husband and then he would say you must have not hugged your husband very well . he was looking for signs of life. they received firefighters line much duty today. they went to the families and the fire men helmets. wayne fredman, abc sevennews. >> a large number of san francisco firefighters were able to attend the funeral service thanks to compassion and cooperation from nearby city counties. they were trained on properl

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vince was a great guy . he served in the san francisco fire defendant for 28 years. both of his brothers are police officers one in san francisco and one in oakland. family members were kaled and rushed to the hospital. they were inside when they received the news no one wanted to hear it is the first fataility in the line of duty in 10 years and impact being the city. >> we are here to express my deepest sympathy to the family and the loss of one of their firefighters. >> with a firefighter here fighting hear his life. >> it is like losing a member of the family. perez' mother was too over come with emotion and did not make it to the hospital. she is sharing her grief with family members and other firefighters. abc 7 news. >> thank you, don. our thoughts go out to the families as well >> there is a new way to track crime in your neighborhood. a service that launched today in several bay area cities gives you a block by block look of where it is safe to park at night and where to park your car. they look at the creator. >> and every time i walk out of my door, you kn

a moving tribute to lieutenant vince perez and firefighter tony valerio. their gear sit among the flowers and thank you cards. >> thank you for doing this you guys are no problem. >> means a lot. >> reporter: and firefighters from around the bay continue to help their grieving brothers and sisters. on this day, a barbecue lunch that will go to all the stations of the city. >> you know, it's gut-wrenching when something like this hatches. the fire service is a tight- knit community. so it affects all of us. so this is the least we can do is come up and help these guys out. >> reporter: this is probably on your day off, right? >> yeah, day off. >> reporter: all you from san jose? >> san jose fire, yeah. >> reporter: thousands of firefighters from around the country are expected for the funeral services for perez and valerio. organizers say it will be an emotional farewell. >> it's going to be very difficult to say good-bye and usually you have a steely reserve and something triggers the tears. bringing both vincent and tony in on their fire engine, the coffi

this alarm and thra that let them know the vents and vince and tony were down. >> they moved toward the sound of the alarm. >> they went through the moke. - smoke they saw a flash light aiming at the ceiling. they went toward it and the smoke was so defense they couldn't see what they were doing and ended up tripping over one of the guys. >> they radied back to dispatch. >> we have two need to medic. >> firefighters called the truck companies outside of the house. >> house right now. two companies outside right now. >> we have two critical firefighters. i am transporting one critic driving medic 74. third degree burn and full arrest and ek about 10 minutes. >> investigators are trying to find out if that sudden intensity of the fire was caused by something called a flash over which is unexpected explosion, when temperatures rise sowed hot there is so much oxygen that contents ignite and explode. but oconner said it could have been by shifting winds igniting the flames. but one thing for certain temperature in the room was a thousand degrees or higher because both men tragically burned d

there's been an overwhelming support for tony and vince. and i want tonight and tomorrow especially to be a fitting tribute to them. they gave their lives in the line of duty trying to protect others. >> reporter: lieutenant vincent perez and firefighter paramedic tony valerio were killed last week while battling a house fire in diamond heights. fellow firefighters at their station remain on duty as always answering calls for help, duty that is tougher these days because of their grief. >> the sadness with any loss of life in our family or in your own family, that the moments or the days leading up to the actual burial and eulogy of someone that's passed it's always a challenging time. >> reporter: during the mass from noon to 3 p.m., geary boulevard from davisidero to goff will be shut down completely some 200 fire trucks are expected. any city firefighter who wants to may attend the services. outside agencies will help cover city emergencies. >> we are doing something that we have never done before. we are taking up the offer of the surro

this is vince. he can do a better job explaining the project details. >> what is happening here, what are you doing? >> we are doing a major modernization. we are tearing out the old system, logic controls, and generator controls, and we will be going over to solid state. this is not your standard selector. it does not have a tape that runs it. because these are outside elevators -- these are unique to the city. >> and this is going away with the upgrade. >> that is right. none of these will be here. we have retrofitted three elevators so far and now we're doing the outside cars. >> so this is what will be replacing -- >> this will be replacing the generator controller and control system. we are down to about 15 or 20 relays, down from about 100, which means much less maintenance. this thing had been running for about six months now, but we still have eight cars here to do. >> great job. >> we have looked at past the elevators and present. now let's look at the future. we are taking a look at some o

it was an honor to know you both, vince and tony. >> vincent and tony were our gentleness and our strengthnt and tony were true men who were role models, not just in how they died but most importantly in how they lived. ♪ ave maria >> tony had a passion for the job and he was a naturally talented people person. he could walk into a chaotic situation, defuse the emotional fireworks, pick up the pieces, and bring both sanity and levity to an otherwise intense and many times dangerous ambulance call. >> there will be an investigation and everyone will want answers. they will question decisions that had to be made in a split second under the most dangerous circumstances. they will want to know why this happened. let me tell you, i know my brother, and now i know on june 26th, they had a great leader on that day and i know on june 26th, they were properly trained and they were ready for that mission and although my brother had a strong will, nothing's greater than the will of god. make no mistake, these men are gladiators, they fight fire, one of the most powerful forces created by god to save

. >>> the amount of pure love i sense for my brother vince in that firehouse was overwhelming. i knew right then no question my brother went to battle with the best of the best. >> it's a loss felt across the state. the touching words for two firefighters laid to rest just hours ago. >>> good evening. thank you very much for joining us. i'm garvin thomas. >> i'm diane dwyer. >>> thousands gathered to honor two firefighters who died doing what they loved to do. >> the funeral was held at st. mary's cathedral this afternoon. afterwards the caskets were loaded onto fire trucks that led a procession to holy cross cemetery where the two firefighters were buried. kimberly terry has a look at today's ceremony. >> reporter: the funeral lasted more than two hours as thousands came to pay their respects to the two men who made the ultimate staacrifice for the jo they loved. ♪ >> the strongest feeling i had after hearing what happened, and i couldn't shake it, was that i wanted to be in that house with my brother. and i say that with all apologies to my four daughters. >> an emotional out