Think outside the box that have approximately. This a reminder that under the administrative code 67 a1 the ringing of set all pagers or turn the device completely off now our regular meeting of tuesday, november 8, 2016, and the time is 901 item one roll call commissioner president Francee Covington commissioner Vice President Ken Cleaveland commissioner nakajo commissioner Michael Hardeman chief of department chief joanne item 2 general Public Comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction with respect to agenda items, speakers shall address their whole and not to individuals. Commissioners are not to enter into a debate or discussion with the speakers, the lack of a response does not constitute an agreement of support for statements during Public Comment. Thank you, madam secretary is there any member of the public of that wants to address the commission okay. At this time seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 3 approval of the minutes from the meeting on october 12, 2016. Is any Public Comment on the minutes as submitted . All right. Public comment is closed. Oar my fellow commissioners move to approve the minutes. Thank you is there a second. Ill second on conditions there is some minor changes id like to ill get with most of those are tip graph. We have a there is a motion that has been seconded theres a motion on the floor all in favor, signify by saying i. I passes unanimously item 4 chief of departments from the chief on Current Issues and activities since the Fire Commission meeting including the academies Strategic Planning one and 50 anniversary update special event and communications by the Government Agencies and the public a report from operations on the Field Operations with the greater alarm and bureau of fir preservation and the airport division. Thank you madam president conditionally. Good morning commissioner president covington that is my reports since october 2, 68 regarding the academies all of you were joined us in a celebration last friday with the one and 20 graduations we graduated commissioner president covington you were not with us but friday 51 members that entered into theyre first field assignments as early as saturday id like to acknowledge the division of training for going a great job in moving the candidates forward a couple of weeks to readjust and get downtime, if you will, he then on november 28th well be welcoming the one and 20th first class 42 members of the current natural assessing list joined twenty 12 members from Fire Commission for an Overall Academy length of 20 weeks those members have been selected by my office and notices have gone out an orientation one week on the 21st for the members selected for the academy and the next academy will be held in april 2017 in which question have alternative candidates and also in january conduct backwards and interviews so for the selection and as well as the Second Academy class one 22 in 2015 were proud to report that we now welcome 36 more members both the per diem that brings our per diem paramedics were glad gnaws our search time we call on the part time paramedics to help with the staffing that are worked well in last month loan we experienced the highest call volume i have the numbers 44 hundred code that calls and were meeting our goal which is a 10 minute Response Time in the New York Times percentage actually weve met that goal and building that all the good work by the augmentation has helped us thats good news and technique were going to begin training to bump up from emt for those members that did paramedic licenses to became paramedics working in the system thats approximately three weeks training and planning for hiring thirty to 32 new emts in january all of that is in progress at this time and theres a lot of pieces and parts in order to get United States to where we are at including our department of Human Resources our Investigative Services bureaucracy to do the checks because all of the members need examinations with the director of planning and finance corso is finalizing the draft and will proponent to the Committee Members and the commission i believe that you know with your recommendations we will be prepared to present it at the final meeting Commission Meeting on december 14th the goal to provide you with the draft well before that meeting if it works for you youll be prepared to do that. Regarding our one and 50 anniversary were at the end of the one and 50 year we had a Committee Meeting on october 27th and we have one more event youll talk about in a minute i wanted to highlight what i thought was a wonderful event the Film Festival on the last weekend that we had on november 5th and 6 and commissioner president covington im sure youll hear from a number of people anyone that attended the Film Festival how informative a labor of love a lot of work put in by you and appreciate that on behalf of myself and the public that attended they learned a lot i learned a lot that weekend you put our heart and soul into that the content was excellent a panel on ems and a panel on sunday with the march 2014 a seethe for Young Children to thank you very much i know you put many, many hours into planning that and pulling that off very much appreciated and did nice thing that all of the work you put into it well have for our archives so show it in coming class and the public it is a great resource thank you very much for that and we have next month is the actual one and 50 anniversary or birthday for our Fire Department so plans are underway to have a great day for those who are working on december 3rd we plan to deliver a meal and thank you to all the people working in the firehouses including the airport on saturday to say thank you and the day before well provide lunch that is part of the fundraising as part of committee put the time into raising the funds for that that evening we have working with the firefighter larry and lieutenant mike day to put on a great event at the zoo a celebration of one plus 50 years of Service San Francisco San Francisco and expecting 8 hundred people at the zoo more details about follow and to say thank you to the members for the sacrifices and celebrate our wonderful tradition and history regarding events and outreach since the last meeting on october 31st director of planning and finance corso and i attended a 5 year Financial Plan and review of the staffing plan on december 6th we the department held a meeting to go over budget instructions so that will be concurring early next month. Many of us pretty much the whole table attended that is important a scenic Society Event and joined by commissioner hardeman to Pay Attention to the forward members of the department and thank you to the command staff we were able to fill out this and say thank you to those who came before us we supported the Phoenix Society on the second on the third both deputies and myself and our director of Human Resources attended a two hour session a preview by the training that will be taking part in all the members rolled out sometime next year we met with the members of department of Human Resources to talk about how well roll out the training and incorporate deputy chief colin i talked about the graduation on the fourth the Film Festival on the 5 and 6 i had the opportunity the evening of november 5th to attend a 90 celebration for someone that was iconic in the department earl and invited to celebrate with him hes an amazing man looked great and many people and actively and former employees in the Fire Department mr. Gage was in the department in 1955 the first africanamerican firefighter and retired as is coordinator of the Human Resources it is on behalf of the Fire Department and the Fire Commission attended that im going to skip one other thing save it for last but i wanted to remind everyone that we were participating gladly in the upping preyed on Fishermans Wharf 51 and details we can provide on start 7, 8, 9 and specific locations i believe were the number 6 entered the parade on sunday and this year we have a formalized Veterans Association he cant say enough about the great work providing color guards hit the ground running and this year participated and jumped into a lot of the events wed like be participating with us on sunday as well and also wanted to let you you know the Deputy Director of planning and finance conducted interviews last week for the vacate support services i worked in that position from 1998 inform 2000 it is an sgal part of making sure the department runs and the infrastructure wise there is a lot of these responsibilities and we there was a vacancy 29 people applied and looked at it resumes and interviewed 6 im id like to announce through the email and welcomed to the command staff former captain the deputy chief Anthony Rivera. clapping. good morning, commissioners koijz and possible future firefighters i want to say what a great honor for me and my family my beautiful wife lisa and my fatherinlaw and not only are here to celebrate im truly honored and although im changing roles from the bureaucracy of equipment my goal will remain the same is a uphold the goals the Fire Department so proud of position and grateful for the choices youve made if i want to know anything about me. Everything no. Im a native son born and raised in the Mission District i live in north beach with my family and just im a proud san franciscan and thank you for the opportunity. clapping. just 0 finalize i echo the native san franciscan it is value adam i know that chief rivera loves of city and department has a beautiful family you dont recall last month when we accepted the position he said maybe i can one up my son his son won an award and it is an honor to work with i since march 1991 including working a period of time on rescue two and organizing the bureaucracy of equipment and efficiency we have adopted a vision zero goal in terms of our specifications now includes strike team to the extent we know the length and width of of our apparatus making sure our drivers are safely navigating through the city streets are more and more of a challenge and advocating for more than education tools being green where we can be green and bio diesel it is a smooth transition was were on interval part of support services and now joined the staff to also do on phenomenal job of those our facility and working closely with the director of finance yes. It was an easy choice to select chief rivera. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to the department thats all. Thank you chief joanne hayeswhite. Member of the public that would like to comment on the chiefs report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And we will go on to our Operations Report. Good morning commissioner covington my Operations Report for the month of october in this period we have 3 greater alarms the first and second alarm on october 1st at harrison and 25th initial fire on the single story contained 3 garage unit separated by an entrance and the address visible fire it geoguy to the battalion notices the fire to the mixed use building it spread into the attic of the residential unit and within the second story found fire had spread and extinguished that and went to the attic were assigned and all unit did a commendable job another second alarm the address 18 plus noriega there were 3 civilian injuries with the investigation the fire was dpafrpd on noriega it was actually on 21st avenue this unit went to 21st after the fire was well advances on the ground floor with 3 stories a man was at the window we rescued by a ladder a woman resident was outside in our unit observed her running through a wall of flames to retrieve her valuables we absolutely dont recommend this she was taken to the hospital for check up. They all did a good job a r started on the first floor and dropped to the ground floor the firefighters did an excellent job truck 18 the third greater alarm on october 2013 minutes o after midnight on corbett there were 4 firefighter injuries one firefighter had a broken wrist the fire is under investigation the Communications Report many phone calls 24 recorded a fire on the 3 Story Building we arrived and the first chief in command upon arrival a fire from all the 3 floors in the rear the building he noticed a significant fire between the buildings and coming from the garage area 24 was vance into the garage that was the area for the origin of fire a gas meter broken off and was a blow torch this was directly in line with the upper floors of the building i remembered hearing the unit up blow saying a significant fire up above us not a comfortable feeling but carried on with their there was a blue framed building engine 20 shut off the gas and there was relieve from that and early on in the incident does did a great job with a couple of lines preventing a significant fire to that building and the captain recommended they went to the aerial to ventilate and because of growth of the fire they were forced to get off the roof but they did what we could all companies on scene were aggressive we would like to acknowledge the great job been the driver of engine 24 lester did exceptional. Community outreach updates id like to remember the public to sign up by texting alerts sf to this 888777 number. On october 2nd, 2016, one of the fleet week events was multiple sf members at the jooth club and supplied the drop off aid members of the arms forces and bonded this facility fascists better working relationships on october 5, 2016, the canine rescue unit trained together and members of the armed forces worked a long training event also sffd will be training students other incidents of note on october 14th the sffd worked well with the sfpd during the officerinvolved shooting the sfpd was asked to fill in at the General Hospital our fire chief joanne responded to the hospitalized our prayers to the officer did a great job and hopefully, will recovery on october 29th a male was saved because of great operations under the bay bridge and engine 48 were the first sffd unit to arrive on scene they were immediately directed by the coast guard located at the dock the wildlife fish people the crew stated they were on the bay to monitor the old piers scheduled in the morning awhile on the bay they stated at the corner of one of the officers eye a large flash on the Golden Gate Bridge he directed the other officers looking at the flash caused by a large marine body they revealed that was a male person they brought him to the dock and did basic life support on the dock the 3 coast guards members they remained calm and the victim was combat active because of his link was collapsing their assistance in initiating the we brought our journey to the dock and the patient was lowest and immediately immediately o2 level was to 86 percent the patient had blue lips he was steel combat active and maybe other traumatic injuries due to the state and the confused responses to our requests as we lowest the patient the patient sat upright and figure out 9 oxygen mask and rhetoric lung grafted and the patient was in respiratory agrees we began to see the patient had problems to the left our chief sobered the back of engine and the paramedic john immediately had decompression for the patient the patient was braetd down and unstable with the Blood Pressure of making the plural decompression difficult the compression the patient combative stated subsided and placed a mock shift on the decarve that was placed between the 2 and third phase the patient was now calm and gave a thumbs u. S. Up as he had immediate relief they were reading 96 percent on oxygen and the transported to the code was completed and the arrive time within 8 minutes time for dispatcher was 27 minutes because the courtyard and fish and game this i did not know man will live plural decomposition i can have it described they put a hole in our lungs i wont be doing that part of example but let my colleague explain. Good morning jeff myers chief of ems that is one of the true life threatening injuries that a patient can have in the prehospital environment usually comes if my impact to the cage in which a lung is lacerated or punctured and one of the links collapses because of the pressure within the chest cavity if i feel the chest cavity with a subsequent breathe is more and more pressure the lung collapses down that pressure causes a shift of the central part of chest our heart and lungs are attached and basically kind of rotates the structures this reduces the blood flowback to the heart that disproves our Blood Pressure if not corrected in a short period of time the vital recreate is very, very low decomposition there are landmarks but takes a large chief Administrative Officer take care though the chest wall to equalize the pressure inside the chest with the outside atmosphere air and this is a lifethreatening condition but that will make a difference in the patients survival to get them to the hospital. Our update on Emergency Medical Services our ambulance were on scene 95 percent under 10 minutes we captured 5 thousand introverts in our call volume a way up meeting the time as well as challenges to the call volume up i believe we did a good job as far as staffing and backing up our ambulances out of service we received two new ambulances of the 55 academy 39 are in the pipeline the control substance policy is in the just peace we used to have it at headache and moved to the 39 and work with the medical director to make it as tight and secure as possible continued meeting with finally with station 49 a short you want on the permits as well as the Planning Section approximately nine hundred plus were approved and generated fees of 4 hundred plus dollars update on the bureau of Fire Investigation through the month of july 2016 one and the opening active Fire Investigation that is 6 on Fire Investigation reports from the previous month an update on San Francisco International Airport i want to mention on october 12th adc casalones led a large drill and the sfo units from San Mateo County a brief description of that he can come up as well that concludes my report. Thank you you can come up wed like more information what is going on at the airplane. Good morning commissioner president covington and others october 12th we have our annual disaster drill the faa requires this is done every 3 years we do that every year plus a significant drill in terms of the size this year one and 85 volunteers some with respect injured and burned victims and apparatus including the coast guard we simulated two aircraft on commercial aircraft in a regional jetted collide on runway both planes settling on the runways two incidents going on at once the small plane simulated off a larger plane and several injured passengers as well that gives us an opportunity number one to coordinate with our unit from the city as well as from San Mateo County over the course the 10 months weve taken a look at the erroneous and making jurists in the procedure this is think opportunity to see how those are working out and afterwards over the course of the last couple of weeks reading the agencies that recorded and taking a look at at the operations to see where we need to make improvements and changes an excellent opportunity to come together to see a largescale incident and everything weve looked at was a successful drill and, of course, any operations we have areas to work only thats the point of this drill this size from my stand point it is successful and give us an opportunity to look at next years drill and right now we are planning on a marine type of operations to include many agencies for plane crashes this years drill was successful. Wonderful thank you very much. Okay youre welcome. Okay. Those are the reports have you concluded . Okay. Not at this time but have to call for Public Comment first any members of the public that want to comment on the chiefs report or the operation report at this time okay Public Comment is closed. Ill go to my fellow commissioners gwen with commissioner Vice President cleaveland. Thank you madam president and thank you for your comprehensive reports which kind of a couple of questions on the orientation that you give for people that are going into the east classes would do you tell them. What are they sweet spot to expect. So an overall of what to expect for the 20 week academy we used to include spouses or significant others but at this point we have just the members to let them know ahead of time they need to be focused and it is a rigorous curriculum for greater daily id like to ask the deputy chief. How badly do you scare them. Good morning, everybody. And chief try not to scare them that is a real good time the group comes in and it is theyre first introduction of the San Francisco Fire Department is he we take it serious all the inspectors class a uniforms and give them all the information and some administrative and one chance we get to meet them i personally am not there it is run by my chief and the staff the people that run the class people get to talk about themselves really starting that bond continue the Training Staff and the class works out very well. Thank you very much. All right. In the h8 category 36 new people are those the top candidates, if you will, for the next h2 classes people that are paramedics in and tm t. Sort of a mix this is prurment some are employed and firefighters and are happen and automatic their Current Situation some on the emt list and also on the h2 not always. A good stepping stone but not the only one correct. Thats good. When you look at to hire emts what you are looking for. An actively list unlike the h2 so we look at experience obviously the anytime qualifications they have an emt certificate if they work in other systems i believe there is a minimum amount of hours i asked our assistant deputy chief chief meyers to make recommendations and so that specifically is how their selected in the past and 6 week curriculum. I wonder if their stand point things important to be hired as an emt. I think value added to the second criteria will be the same for h2 firefighters job experience and community service, the ability to speak another language is also valuable especially in the city when our trying to ascertain medical criteria and be background so similar to other nc level positions. Thank you, chief id like to commend the president for the Film Festival i was under the weather he attended the saturday session that was very, very well done and informative thank you to president. I also like to commend our new assistant deputy chief Anthony Rivera very wise selection chief and delighted to have i join our staff. Chief gonzales a serious report in the number of fires that you recorded and the serious medical issues i guessed lieutenant johan son are commend for saving that guys life. Absolutely. Theyre our local heroes for the day and certainly that i did not know man did he jump fall. All we know he flashed we again get that information. Is he in the hospital. I would say no ill have to get back with you but, but those folks come to the commission should be commended for saving a life. That can be arranged. Yeah. Id like them to be acknowledged and were going into the season of more fires i think we face that in the winter it is during the holiday and a lot of people will be doing special event at the homes and Christmas Trees and other things to sort of get you know charged up speaks for itself in the wrong way all of us will have to be vigilant and you have a very professional Fire Department. Thank you. Thats about it. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. Commissioner nakajo. Thank you. Ill go through the chiefs report of operation thank you very much for youre good comprehensive report i wanted to say that your description of greater alarms your description staff the responsible individuals within the department it is a scrip active it is important to read the incidents and follow the trucks and multiplication and other individuals again ill read summaries as well i pickup words like under the leadership of such and such under the direction of battalion chief that is really important as a commission for us to be able to be able to get a description again, we have the ability to show up at a greater alarm fires but not on our time and ability we often dont make that but this is helpful i also wanted to refer to our ems Services Report i know that you know that the commission panes to the ambulance Response Time to see 95 percent under 10 minutes is good work and the ambulance of the Fire Department captured 76 percent of the market shares with 5 thousand 4 hundred and 9 transports that that a monthly summary chief. Oh, yes, sir. Going down to the division and the investigation out of the 3 a categorical there is a permit annual number total annual permit inspections 3 thousand plus is that number a. An annual permit number. Just for a description and clarity what do you mean annual is that a. Thats the total number. Of inspectors within the year. Okay. Thats a large number and next page, page 9 the bureaucracy investigation corrupt you talked about the investigation reports for the month of july 2016 one and 4 with 6 additional on Fire Investigations. Yes, sir. The question in the Fire Investigation unit how many staff do we have lieutenant working in this thing division. We average two, 6 inspectors on twentyfour hour days from 12 00 noon and some days there is 3 depends on how the tours work out we hire overtime and a captain that works days. We also have one more day position that is a a Community Outreach that works there. All right. Chief commissioners and fellow colleagues we have gender a lot of fires within the city of San Francisco that is number one 04 with an additional increase of 6 is that is manageable number. As you may know id like say almost close to a year ago a new captain took over in conjunction with the fire marshall we worked to get that number down it was 4 hundred and did a phenomenal job of closing the reports and once they come up the fire marshall de cossio duty does timetables. This didnt have a page number the San Francisco International Airport but the first unit on scene with the educate of f unit respond and the first ambulance on scene do you see that sdheef. Our medical calls the staff board. Page one and 5. In terms of educate and the valid dated average column 9 point is that reflected thought minutes response. The first unit on scene where that has valeted responses that is the time so if you look at the bottom of first section 2016 slashing 102016 the 90 percentage actually, we made it basically in 5 nature minutes. Okay. And then categorically. Thats any ems unit so the first unit on scene that has a paramedic on it as you may know 32 of our 43 on average are als engines and the others are b l s some calls we send two engines to but maybe not one with a paramedic well send another engine with a paramedic to make sure the emt is on team as we said the 10 minute milestone we have to make but we need architectural als resource within 7 minutes and we do that but backing up sometimes our b l s engines. So those numbers in parentheses thats the fire ambulance desire the time to did chief. So als is 7 minutes we have an als units on scene and a 90th percentile in the third minute our ambulance first ambulance needs to be under 10 minutes code 3 and right now 9. 9. 87 minutes percentile. Where our stations are we cant move the station and the time they give us is 4 nature minutes on average we get there 3. 8 zero minutes the 90th percentile we need to be realistic you cant make that 2348s we put fire stations and i want to know about the time between the dispatcher and the responding unit my question who will make that call from the als goes out or the b l s goes out there. Thats the branch of emergency communication out of the department of Emergency Management theyre responsible for the calls they receive any emergency calls whether that is police or fire or ems and they determine the code and call site and theyre working on improving that seethe of the response as well. Thank you chief thank you for that explanation. Thank you to commissioner covington making me put page numbers on this to find the items. Im complete with the report and have a few comments to chief joanne hayeswhite. Thank you chief gonzales and chief joanne hayeswhite i wanted to remark to the graduation held at the other Presentation High School for those of us from that era and appreciate the chief and captain and the training lieutenant had that really, really wonderful gaming graduation and again, i want to recognize those training lieutenants as you recorded a class starting in another part of most and from this period moving forward the other thing i want to graduate is you choifr for our promotion in joining us and had the pleasure to have interaction with you previously i visited you when you were at the department the equipment not a glamourous job but never met the member i met a lot of members of the department you took so much pride with the bureaucracy equipment that showed me youre an internal guy and you take the perspective of firefighters are out there and their needs are so for myself not rowles the importance of the data and including the engines and the doors and ambulance i was impressed with that and truly impressed you helped with the ceremony at Public Safety office in the Early Morning i appreciate that and congratulate you and your family members here as well i have to say that your fatherinlaw i knew from high school i have to say that and gay congratulations with our son the winner of the contest good selection and the last thing i want to say excuse me i wanted to recognize president of the Fire Commission from the Film Festival amazing work amazing work and dedication the selection of the film be able to stick with it im a person that is trying to learn how to get my website i think that was something we entered that i think you put us into a new era the two Panel Presentations one with the emergency medical with chief meyers and others were there was informative and gauchs a perspective but the mission bay fire you hear a lot of things im a commissioner you get reports when i sit in the audience and get the perspective of the members that fought that fire what was going on at the time get a feeling of what was going on with the grateful nature with the folks saving lives and wording. Thank you, very much. Madam president. Thank you commissioner nakajo. Commissioner hardeman. Thank you, madam chair. No, no. Thank you, madam chair yeah chief gonzales i really appreciated the report you gave on the rescue because general Public Comment is watching this this is one thing to let us read it but for you to read it out loud and explain is terrific and lets us know what the firefighters and paramedics have to deal with and congratulating those heroes that saved the lives that goes on everyday and people coming before us every meeting saving the lives of a person that was not going to be around if you didnt get there on time he really appreciate that. Thank you, commissioner. As far as the ems you know we had the 40 extension ladder had to go 40 feet was of the palin by 798 and others pursuing the goal to get the resources needed it is it would be nice given the resources we are doing the job and still have more resources to come that was nice of you to explain the problems again, it is like the stations are too far away you cant get to where you have to go faster that could be impediment so thats good in all aspects. And then so that was the best the other thing this is in our report 24 thousand plus calls last month but again, this is basically for people watching 24 transition you take the responses by union type it is not mentioned in the broadcast 26 thousand plus that includes the engines and rescues etc. So thats another thing almost one thousand a day things happening around town and trying to get around 45 thousand speeding uber and lyft out there that their you know competing for space in the streets plus all the construction makes that difficult so it makes the Response Time even greater a greater thing to risk as far as the graduating class that chief collin as commissioner nakajo mentioned of insofar as and im hearing now that in the past having difficulty getting the inspectors somehow it is said there are insofar as that are i was really happy to hear thats a reflective on what is happening and the delegation by the chief and the leader is only as good is his or her can dedicate if you cant do that youll not be a good Leader People are sticking around and not to do this so chief meyers that was great i was sitting behind him during the Graduation Ceremony he had all the paramedics that were graduating and the sure happiness between the chief a little paramedics graduating i can tell by some of the hugs that went on and the handshakes and you give them a handshake they grab him a great relationship that exists between the boss and the workers that is really nice to see and stand there and watch that sincere you know they didnt have to say be nice to him hes not their boss anywhere that was a great thing to see i really enjoyed that. It is now official. Yeah. That was terrific. And then youre Still Standing here chief rivera thats quite amazing where is he at oh, there he is hes there. So congratulations a great choice youre a spoiled guy and besides that three or four years ago north beach was the greatest neighborhood in america you were living in the greatest neighborhood and working for the greatest Fire Department and one of the greatest leaders congratulations to you. Lets see and to chief your detailed log a great detailed log of what you do everyday we appreciated that. And then the Phoenix Society the chief mentioned that was quite an event again, i mentioned about the command staff last month but the fooeshgs society should have other things to do but filled the table and fortunately according to the person that ran the event the most brass hes seen in the past and it was great not knowing any of the awardee to listen to theyre short and funny and humor is allowed the humor at the table with the command staff that none of them drinking none it was everybody came over and got the wine off the tackle they were in fuel uniform but the joking and the foreperson between the folks one of the Commanding Officers their retired and can work theyll bring up something in the past or joke how they looked at when they retired that was nice i liked to have a sense of humor that is so important in life to see people let in their hair down and enjoy themselves with their fellow workers. So thats it i again, thank you for all the pressure and diligencecy complaining about not having the resources blaming us the commissioners and blaming the chief and blaming the command staff and once the resources we dont see enthusiasm complaining at least give them a pat on the back they made sure to build the response so thank you. Thank you commissioner hardeman. Chief joanne hayeswhite. I wanted to add earlier this week on monday we were able to thank private citizens that a couple years ago when we were having problems are Response Time before we made a 14 Million Investment in ems i have gotten to know over the years a couple by the name of bernard and his wife barbara he approached me sometime ago i said this process it takes time we submitted the delivery of two ambulances those are generous donations at the bought for us this is a great ongoing relationship with people that are generous and out of the goodness of their hearted they read the article and gotten together a few times and heed ask what can m line do well be receiving 9 balconies 5 from the general fund and two wonderful san franciscans they wrote us a check for three hundred and 50 thousand that covered the purchasing of two ambulances were grateful to them then captain rivera before i promoted him that afternoon came out from the bureaucracy of equipment and brought the ambulance to headache and had the ability to look at what their funds purchased were appreciative of theyre generally it. Thank you theyve been good and the bernard oh, my gosher foundation dont a lot of good work not only in San Francisco but across the country with their osher and so graduation was a lot of festival and chief was the proud poppa beaming he thought the buttons were going to popoff identification so proud a delight you know so much happiness of the people that graduated into the academy there were 51 wonderful we need every single one and choiief rivera. You have a wonderful can do spirit i appreciate very much so regarding the Operations Report i agree with the comments of my fellow commissioners this is a very good narrative you know were getting and that people who perhaps do not get a chance to see you, you us on sfgovtv when they read the minutes they get a full sense of play so i wanted to ask you for a little bit more detail on page 3 the number page 3 i wanted to ask you about the driver of the engine 24 Firefighter David lester hes performed exceptionally can you tell us more. So being the first engine operator at a greater alarm fire if you keep our cool and taking lines off and making sure you, you supply the first line with our tank and youre going to take more lines off a lot of the man folds they go into the direct building you have to insure other supplies maybe two or three so remain calm and do that with a heavy fire all units saying we need water we need water he has to find out where to get more water sometimes from a second engine why he was expended he stayed calm and made no mistakes and the fire went out. Great thank you your report chief gonzales. Thank you chief joanne hayeswhite for your report thank you very much. I think that along with the two gentlemen that commissioner Vice President cleaveland suggested come to the meeting firefighter les 80 take care will be a good addition to that short list. Lets see he had a question for chief castaloncastalono. Which question. Regarding did chart. So okay. Thank you chief gonzales. Okay. Okay. I see listed here the elevator rescue and the fire alarm do those go up and can you talk a little bit about the nature of those calls. We havent seen a significant increase in fire alarm or elevators their steady we dont respond to a tremendous amount of those but we have as you may know the increase of passengers through the airport yearly this year and last year over 50 million there is quite a bit of use of elevators we have obviously at the Elevator Team there are instantly working on the elevators making sure their running properly so we get a number of stuck elevators. Thats what it is. Stuck elevators. Not medical. No, no stuck elevators and the fire alarms are those a certain percent because of security at the airport we dont get a lot of that type of thing many are them activated for reasons nothing like a something about or things like that not allowed in the terminals but an alarm nothing that ever has turned into anything substantial. At the beginning of year i think 09 report on the airport division. Okay. Very good. Thank you now lets lets see. Okay. Thank you i think that was commissioner Vice President cleaveland that made sure we are we were getting to look at the calendar getting to a point of active things happening in the city regarding the holiday so i was wondering i guess to the chief of the department chief joanne hayeswhite if we are mentioning putting together Television Psas regarding the hazards particularly you know the turkey frying and the Christmas Tree hazards to not just people and fire potential but to animals as well so are we are doing any partnerships with one of the local stations to get out the word. So at this time we dont have anything planned with the local station typically, well put out a press bulletin around the holiday regarding as commissioner Vice President cleaveland said an uptick in accidental fires created by candles and electrical outlets and cords and so forth a general order prepared to go out to the members and others that dont inspections related to the exception for Public Assembly where there is highlighted decorations typically for the last 8 to 10 years participated at st. Francis Memorial Hospital a live demonstration how quickly a fire could a start with a tree not been treated in the home we believe that is scheduled next month although i have to confirm that. And does that visual information on the website. It cabby have not seen it that the past. Covering as many platforms as we possible, is the way to go. Thank you for that great. And i also want to say thank you to everyone for youre good words regarding the Film Festival everything went extremely well and thank you to the members of my subcommittee of one and 50th anniversary so thank you all so much. Commissioner Michael Hardeman yes. You see my notes im trying to be brief i had to go back no way i wanted to graduate i wish i had the time i had commitments but i what i saw was a spectacular and the chief sat a couple of rows in front of me one thing she made a comment it was very educational we learned a lot and not all of that was good all of that was good about San Francisco but not there was a very sad thing that you know pretty much you had really to hold back when you see what firefighters done in the areas and some of the especially coming back this one particular film we watched about the Fire Department cut back and the engine was closed to the fire where 3 people ended up dying it was very sad the first this is a number of years later the one person did a 4 person job couldnt do it and people died because of that so thats the issue about cutting back you might not close to a house nearby and cut back on our staff and go by 6 months a year and all of a sudden you have that fire you, you dont have it, it is wonderful that San Francisco didnt cut back on the staffing but chiefs report chief great job on the 457s coming in and one and 20 class face fantastic thats my favorite day every it is e it would be nice we have more coming around seeing the happiness in the room with the family and friends and graduates this is a lifechanging thing and great to be part of the h8798 kudos to them without their coordination with the recommendation with the chief to move into that formula we wouldnt be on the time as we wouldnt be doing as well on time with the services anyway, thank you and just wanted to throw that up. Thank you commissioner hardeman. All right. Thank you everyone madam secretary. Item 5. Review of harassment presumed to be innocent policy. Today we will have the discussion and review of the hazard time preservation policy but unfortunately, our h. R. Director has been called away she has a family emergency so ill continue this item to the meeting on the first wednesday of december but i will ask for Public Comment. If anyone has a Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 6 agenda for next Fire Commission on december 14th 2016. Any Public Comment . All right. Public comment is closed. And we will continue the harassment presumed to be innocent i noticed the last couple of sessions ive been trying to surf the identification section for the Fire Commission were not listed anymore the reason he is this because ive been trying to tape our sessions to try to review the information and see what is going on with the department and i havent be able to find it so id like to presented that back to sfgov and i dont know whether we got bumped for some other exciting committee in San Francisco, california we have a clarification i havent been able to find that thank you madam president. Certainly you would like the information offline or an agenda item. To be offline. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Vice President cleaveland. Id like to put the h2 update on the agenda 72 hours important that we have that position created and id like to see if we have any new news to be added to the conversation and obviously we have the Strategic Plan reviews next week. Those are two important items. Thank you very much. And chief joanne hayeswhite the Strategic Plan will be available for review the week before . Yes. Great. All right. So commissioners with the Strategic Plan since this is a very important document and an important process people have gone through to develop the plan please review it carefully and keep in mind the feedback weve received from not 1, 2, 3 but 3 civil grand juries thank you all very much and at this point oh. Madam secretary. Adjournment. Yes. At this time ill entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. I need a second were hereby adjourned thank you all. 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