Protesters say they are the ones being mistreated. I have been harassed three times by the same officer. And thats what people get tired of. And hundreds of millions of dollars in damage . Detroits worst flood in 90 years. Hello, the iraqi army is fighting the Islamic State to retake tikrit. Its a sunni, dominated city where the Islamic State has now cemented itself with help of other sunni groups. The advance has been slowed on the outskirts of the city due to sniper fire and roadside bombs. There has been fierce fighting in the area for the countrys largest dam which is now in control of the army and the Kurdish Forces. Lets go to the Northern City of erbil the capitol of the region. Now that the musol dam has been taken, it seems the battle is moving towards tikrit, but it is going to be a very different type of fight. Undoubtedly. There are many front lines in iraq. The iraqi armys advance now hold it because of heavy fighting. This is not the first time they tried to recapture an
Make his presentation and follow will be rose mary and then we can answer any questions from the committee. Thank you director and i know that we may end losing a quorum so i know were going to have a follow up hearing so if i could ask you to expedite the presentation but thank you. Supervisor campos i wanted to acknowledge we have building inspectionor warren mar with us. Thank you for being here with us commissioner mar. Thank you director. Good afternoon supervisor. I am Deputy Director of Inspection Services. I oversee Inspection Services divisions that include building plumbing and electrical and housing. We conducted over a total of 120,000 inspections and more than 200,000 commercial and residential knowledges in San Francisco. In addition to the fire and Police Department personnel dbi and other life safety departments on emergency scene shortly after the event. We inspect fire damage buildings for Structural Integrity and protect firefighters after an event and post the build
Mimic what the Building Department does where you can go online look up your residence, where you live, and look up if there is any complaints or pending inspections et cetera and if you have concerns you can call. They can call us directly on that. In addition the Fire Department is working with the american red cross. They have reached out to us and were happy to work with them identifying high risk areas and the goal there is to provide and install smoke alarms to needy residents, and the new smoke alarms starting this july and with the california fire marshal need to have 10 year battery lives in them so thats a new provision thats out there, and its worth noting that 2 3 of all fire deaths that cause that have occurred that where residents had smoke alarms 2 3 were due to they were disabled or they didnt have them either, 2 3, and the reason theyre disabled is nuisance alarms or sometimes the battery fails so this is a step in the right direction and were going to work with them o
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. What we found when we looked at some of the buildings were not just fire safety issues bu
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