The fire chief mentioned there are lot of fires going on and last month especially some major fires occurs. For our Department Later on i will have my Deputy Director from inspection to explain how were going to respond each fire in the city. We have 24 hours inspection inspector to respond to any fire, major fire called by the Fire Department, and also i will have my housing inspection chief rosemary to make a presentation how our housing inspection perform. The inspection, especially regarding routine inspection. Before i turn over all this i want to tell you i echo with the chief. Education is number one priority the way i see. How are we going to educate the owner and the tenant . Especially regarding the fire Safety Equipment like the fire escape, Smoke Detector, Carbon Monoxide detector and the fire alarm system. Theyre important for the tenant. Also they realize in the room they need to have a Smoke Detector to get the Early Warning when there is a fire going on. For our Inspect
Honor to give our presentation today. First of all San Francisco is a dense populated city. Theres lots of fire probably you didnt hear. As the fire chief mentioned there are lot of fires going on and last month especially some major fires occurs. For our Department Later on i will have my Deputy Director from inspection to explain how were going to respond each fire in the city. We have 24 hours inspection inspector to respond to any fire, major fire called by the Fire Department, and also i will have my housing inspection chief rosemary to make a presentation how our housing inspection perform. The inspection, especially regarding routine inspection. Before i turn over all this i want to tell you i echo with the chief. Education is number one priority the way i see. How are we going to educate the owner and the tenant . Especially regarding the fire Safety Equipment like the fire escape, Smoke Detector, Carbon Monoxide detector and the fire alarm system. Theyre important for the tena
Incident and we have a 24 hour on call inspection services. Inspects the damage property for integrity and inhabitantity and red tags make sure that pg e turns off the utilities and notice of vlzs tacked on the building and in mail and the owner has 30 days to file the permit and usually 90 to 120 days to complete the work. [inaudible] engineering report if there are questions about structural safety. The owner is required to provide one as well. We usually try to work with the owner on a need to comply with the issue notice of violation. We understand the need to work with the Property Owner to remove obstacles to fast track the permits and inspections make sure that damaged properties get back on market and residents are back in their homes as quickly as possible. We realize that the owner insurance negotiations often take some time. In the case of the fire on 22nd street our building inspectors and engineers were on scene the day after the fire and worked with several departments to
On 22nd street our building inspectors and engineers were on scene the day after the fire and worked with several departments to escort them back into the businesses and homes to get values. We issued citys engineering report and received one from the engineer. We inspect buildings daily in the city and rely on residents and tenants especially in older buildings to call us directly or call 311 to report matters they believe are life safety issues and demand that the inspectors in the Community Economy we have to have those living in the buildings to work and assist with us and the owners responsible for the safety of the well being of these buildings help the city by letting us know immediately if they see matters of concern such as blocked fire exits, missing smoke alarms. I would like now to hand this over to chief rosy mary [inaudible] Housing Inspector and shell go over the place in regards to housing inspections and how they do routine inspections and outreach of the enforcement O
Within the department of building inspection does on an ongoing basis theyre occurring right now. We have inspectors out there that do them on a complaint driven basis and systematically as required by the San Francisco housing code but let me tell you what were doing in addition to all of that. When department of building inspection saw a cluster of fires occurring in the mission we immediately instituted a concentrated Code Enforcement Outreach Program and that program included defining a concentrated focus Code Enforcement area. We looked at and identified 126 multiple family dwellings along the Mission Street corridor from third street all the way out to Crocker Amazon and six and a half miles and 67 city blocks. We started to do the inspections. We have done about 35 of those because we need to send a comprehensive inspection package to the Property Owner so they learn in the future what theyre supposed to maintain on an onbasis. Thats been in our website for a number of years. Wh