So those fees pay for we received five host tenders in total, four from the city and one from the state. Those are a Million Dollars each, fully equipped, fourwheel drive, they come with a tran pump, as well as a portable pump that we can drop in the bay, as well as 6,00 feet of hose. I think chie the chief has a photo for you in his presentation today. And since then, i also sept a video message out to the field in terms of what we received. It is important to keep people informed. I had my biweekly meeting with mayor breed. The last time i was able to bring deputy chief woresh with me, and today i have a meeting with her and i will bring the deputy chief along. We have a new deputy chief of support services in the house today. Chief rivera has retired. The new chief is dawn dewitt, and she has 24 years of experience, and she is probably the most organized person i have ever met. She has hit the ground running. Can you stand up, please, chief dewitt . There you go. There is our new chief of support services. You can just say hello. Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here. [laughter] tell us about you while youre here. Sure. Ive got 24 Years Experience in the department. Ive come up through the field. I worked at firefighter, lieutenant captain, and battalion chief most recently. I am highly organized, and it has been a long time since i sat behind a desk. I was the manager of a law form before i came into this. This seems like a division with many legs, and it is challenging so far. Im enjoying it. And she is also one of our training officers back in the day down at the division of training, so. I just thank chief rivera for his dedicated service to the department for 28 years. I met with supervisor Hillary Ronan to explain the budget acts that we made and how our system works. She was on the Budget Committee. I wanted to really bring the story to her that i didnt think some of the Budget Committee sort of understood what i was trying to get across. So im going to continue to bring the story to those that make our decisions on our behalf at city hall. I met with the head of d. E. M. , mary ellen carroll, and one topic was our uniform members. There have been rumors flying around of them not being there, etc. , and i explained to her the importance of having our uniformed members at the d. E. M. , just like our members from fire prevention, who had field experience, it is extremely important for us to have members at dispatch who have worked in the field, who know what a rick operation is and how to handle it, who know wo what an mci is, and who know where all of our stations are and what all of our equipment is. So well have a further discussion with d. E. M. On that topic later this week. I met with sean buford again, not just labor management, and were keeping up regular meetings, besides those regular management meetings, which is super helpful. I met with the aides from senator Kamala Harris office, and they offered assistance in terms of any grants that we need assistance with, and they were also really interested in our disaster planning and response. So we gave them all of the information on that. Myself and chief woresh met with daily city fire, and we opened up the lines of communication there. So the first time were seeing each other is not at a big innocent incident, and that was helpful. We had a meeting with the ambassador to peru, and we brought in our employ group, who were great. And the Peruvian Fire Department are all volunteer, and they dont get much funding. And so los vonberos is going to work with them. We had the topping off ceremony, and im really pleased to see that is really moving along. Were looking forward to moving in at the end of next year. Recent upgrades to our Fire Department operations center. So the ops center that we have on the second floor, which is an Emergency Center for us, if we need it. Myself, i would be at the department of Emergency Management with the mayor, but the rest of our Incident Management Team would be at that Fire Department operations center. So we had our first training on that with command staff, and deputy chief aloe is working with chief cochran and others to make sure we get some further trainings in place for Incident Management Team, for when we have an extended incident that we need to support. National night out, i attended with the mayor at the bay view opera house on third street and at the community center. I want to thank all of our members for the support around outside lands and the work that chief cochran and chief woresh did in preparing for that event, as well as chief tonge, in terms of our medical response there. We worked with the police and a lot of other city departments, and it turned out quite safe, which i know people were really worried about that. And i just want to recognize that one of my deputies told me today it is 100 days into this administration today, and i want to really thank the command staff, swell as well as our assistant chiefs out in the field for really stepping up to move this department, and it is much appreciated. None of us do this alone. And then wait, there is something on the back page. The civil grand jury were finalizing that. Mark curso will be going to another meeting today with the Mayors Office about that. And once we finalize everything, it will be brought before the commission. The chief center drill update so we were having that drill the last time that we were at this meeting. I had excused chief worsh and others to attend that drill. They were dispatched code 2, which is regular flow of traffic. And the first engine arrived in under four minutes. It is two blocks away, station four. And the last apparatus, being a medic unit, arrived on scene about 25 minutes later. So there are definitely some traffic challenges. But lets reiterate that units responding to this drill did not use emergency lights and sirens, which counts for some of the delay. But we are continuing to collaborate with m. T. A. And the chase center and other parties. And chief de cossio, he was also at that drill, and he and chad law have been instrumental in working with the m. T. A. So we will be having further conversations and collaborations around the traffic patterns to and around chase center. And then i met with director Debbie Rafael with the department of environment to see where we can overlap. She is happy weve removed some of the toxic foams from our department, and were using renewable diesel, and it is going to be a bit of a rude awakening for our members moving forward. Any new systems that permitted after january 1st of 2020, will not have gas, natural gas lines. The city is moving away from that cu due to the impact that it has on Global Warming and sea level rises. So any buildings for, for within the city citybuilt buildings will likely not have gas in them if theyre permitted after january 1st of 2020. So were going to have to work on some conduction ovens or something. I certainly impressed upon the director that we are all forgoing green as long as it does not impact us operationally and logic lodge jirvegllogistically, and financially. And some of these things have a Financial Impact on us, so we would need some help on that. On september 11th, as always, we will have our commemoration ceremony. This year it will be at our newly remodeled station five. Well start at 6 45 in the morning, and were expecting the mayor to be there and several other dignitaries. And you should have gotten an invitation from my office yesterday. That concludes my report. Thank you very much, chief nicholson. At this point, well call for Public Comment before the commissions comment in question. Any member of the public wishes to give Public Comment, please come to the podium at this time. Seeing none, the Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, Vice President covington. Oh, im sorry, i should remove my name. I dont have any questions at this time. Okay. Commissioner hardiman . Thank you. Chief, this new wellness, Health Wellness position, battalion chief, that is one individual for a regular work shift, not three . It is one person on days at the headquarters. Good job. I just wanted a clarification. Thank you. The dawn dewitt, you have big shoes to fill. Ive always been a big fan of chief riveras welcome. I was wondering i dont know you personally, and ive never sat down and had a conversation with you, and so welcome. You have big shoes to fill. His greatest asset is he had such a terrific memory shi his hair. [laughter] everybody loved his hair. Especially chief vernasi, he was very jealous. His greatest trait was his memory. But being organized, probably the most important thing about that job, so that was good to hear about that. Thank you. I just wanted to comment on that, that im happy to hear that youre organized. Thank you. I dont know if i have his memory, but ill do my best. Everybody has a different way of doing things. Right. Thanks for stepping up. On the budget, very good job. Cant get everything we wanted, but you did very well. And im so happy. And i would also like to thank mark cuss cuso. Good job, chief, very good. Thank you very much, commissioner hardiman. Commissioner veranisi. Thank you. Chief, does it feel like a hundred days or a hundred years . Im going to exercise the fifth amendment. [laughter] i was looking at chief worshs report, but you did bring it up, and i wanted to mention that it appears that the calls on e. M. S. 6 are now up to 80 homeless people. And i think that is unusual because i remember it, and i dont have the prior statistics, although the chief does give us the last five to six months, and it looks like it varies from 65 all the way up to 81. I think 81is the highest ive ever seen it. I want to put it out ther there my opinion has been very clear on this in the past, but at a certain point we need to stop calling this e. M. S. 6 and start calling it the homeless emergency plan or something. Because when we go to our next budget and we ask for people for the department and i know we just got five people for this specific unit but at a certain point, if were serving the Homeless Population primarily were way beyond primarily if were talking 81 , then we need to put a different name on it. We see the members of the board, the supervisors and the Mayors Office, throwing money at this particular issue i know we have five positions, but i think we could actually get more is 81 of our calls for e. M. S. 6 are homeless. I want you to consider it. If it keeps trending at 81 , we need to call it homeless something. If i could just say, it is a Pilot Program. As such, it cannot be called anything to do with homelessness because it is our frequent callers, is what e. M. S. 6 is addressing. And while, yes, the majority of that is homeless in nature, i dont believe the language within that Pilot Program speaks to that. So its not actually allowed to focus on like were not allowed to deploy with necessarily putting one of our e. M. S. 6 people with the hot team because dedicate them to the hot team because they are not our only frequent callers. But absolutely, we are most of the people are homeless and it is important for us to continue to make our story heard by everyone at city hall. These are where our funds are going to. And we need some help with that. Yeah. I hear what youre saying. And i understand that the Pilot Program is titled one thing, but what we call it i dont think affects our Pilot Program, and i think at a certain point, we need to be realistic about what this Program Actually is, as opposed to what it was set out to be. And maybe we change that Pilot Program to change it to what it actually is. I just want to put it out there. Im not asking anything other than pointing out to everybody here that it is now up to 81 serving homeless people, and it is great that were tracking that because i see these numbers. The 40 number is popping up everywhere now, which is really good, because now people are talking about it. So i really do appreciate that. I wanted to ask how the meetings with d. P. H. Are going in regards to the ambulances on sitting on hospitals, or upstaffing the hospitals. Are we continuing with those . Yes, we are continuing with those. And i have just asked my adman person to schedule another meeting on the topic and some other things. So its definitely still on the radar. Yes, were definitely talking about it and working on, you know, some sort of Creative Solutions to alleviate our time on task, for sure. Do we have the statistics or the information are we tracking the average time that an ambulance is sitting on a hospital . Or the average time that an ambulance is at a hospital . I think that would be important to show. If were not tracking it, if there is a way to track it, we probably should. Because it would also tell us which hospitals are the worst offenders. So, were not tracking that specifically. What weve been tracking is time on task. I believe it has gone up 25 in the last several years or so. So the time on task and some of that is certainly the hospital, some of it is traffic in this city, some of it is that we no longer have a hospital in one part of the city, it got moved to van ness, so there are all sorts of things that impact that. Absolutely upstaffing the hospitals in that way also impacts it, too. Ive spoken with dr. Coldwell from San Francisco general emergency hospital, and a couple other people from the general, and we are having these conversations. And its not necessarily going to be a quick fix, but we are having the conversations right now. Chief, can we track and i know there is a difference between time on call and time on hospital. Is there a way that we can track time on hospital . Because that would at least tell us whether or not if its a d. P. H. Issue or a st. Francis issue. I think having that data would be really important for you in your conversations with these people, because maybe it is not d. P. H. Maybe it is Sutter Health or one of the other hospitals that we need to have these conversations with. We can certainly look at if that is possible to track. Wed have to talk to our i. T. Guys. I think that would be really Important Information to have, if we could start tracking that. I think that would be great. Thank you for your report, chief. Thank you very much, commissioner. At this particular point, no other questions or comments from the commissioners, we will move on to deputy chief victor vores presentation. Welcome, chief. Good morning. I hope you dont mind my jacket being open. It is like a 50gallon hefty bag in these things when it gets hot. [laughter] im not kidding. Deputy chief of operations, vic worsh, again i would like to knowledge the a. C. S and all the staff and the incredible hard work and the pace that theyve put us through, all of this, and also the a. C. S, tremendous kudos because, again, we kept all of our fires out of first alarm. So that means theyre being extremely aggressive but safe. But i talked to all of the a. C. S after all of the fires, and everything has been positive. Their hose leads, the ladders, everything has been working out really well, so im proud of them. I was told to adjust according, so i will not go through each of the 13 fires. But we had a cliff rescue, where we rescued one person, we had two separate bay re rescues, and we rescued two people. And we rescued two windowwashers. We had an extrication from a bart train, and we rescued them and saved them. We had four auto extrications and we saved three out of the four extrications. We did have a fire at the end of the month at centurs. F. O. , and it went well. We didnt have to use any of our San Francisco resources. It was five floors to the roof, it was an hvac unit. The interesting part was they had to make a large line lead, over 600 feet, all the way up five stories to get to the roof. So it was a difficult lead, but on top of that, what they were leading through, there was over 30 different kind of Hazardous Materials inside that plant, including cyanide. They did it safely, made it to the roof, and extinguished the fire. Good for the s. F. O. The mccarthur tunnel. Wehad a fire in the tunnel, and it was difficult leads, and we were pushing the fire back on each other, but it took some it was quick. It was put out quick and extinguished very rapidly. The mcclarin park wildfires, one of them we had was five acres were no structures. It was caused by a homeless camp with cooking and heating. Yesterday we had a meeting with the San Francisco Police Department capitol jack hart, dean crisman, and pablo lugenza, and lieutenant baxter, and they met with the community, and superintendent anderson, and they talked about the fire and the Public Safety around mcclarin park. This has been an issue. The meeting was informative and very well received with the community. We had another rescue this is a picture of fort fonkston, where we rescued a mother, an 8yearold son, and a dog. They were rescued successfully with no injuries. Here is a picture of a highangle rescue at 301 mission. These four windowwashers were stuck 10 floors up for four hours until they decided to call the Fire Department. We got them out very quickly. That worked out good and fast. Battalion 3, we now have ticks on all of our companies, and were training on how we can save lives and reduce property loss with this new equipment. It has been working out well. Working with Homeland Security, been working in the fdoc, and all engines, trucks, and rescue swodz squads have a cambera safety equipment. Due to the Northern California fires, there was a lot of problem with a lot of the animals during the fire and how to handle them. So Homeland Security was helping us out and helping out animal control to make a plan in a disaster for shelter and care. In this incident, they simulated a fouralarm fire right next to the shelter. And its a work in progress, but it worked well. But people should also know to have a plan for your own pet in case of a disaster. The musconi Center Disaster review, this is a possible d. S. W. Worker shelter for us. So were working towards that. The east wing, were planning on fire, police, and Health Service workers, and there were fire houses, and we had other agencies coming to help us, and we will work on shelter. Were thinking forward. The west wing is still being decided the best use for. Homeland security has been busy already with fleet week. We know thats october 7th through 14th. But it is a big month this month for the planning for the u. S. Military arrival, and there is a lot of planning for preparation and logistics. The San Francisco Emergency Response plan, we meet monthly now with the d. E. M. Weve created a relationship that is working really well with the overall citywide disaster plan, and all of our disasters, not just the big earthquake. Again, were maintaining good relations and were coming up with some good solutions. At the headquarters, the command staff continues to train for large disasters. Were currently updating our training with the battalionbased control, what we call the 103. Wer103. Were handing out laminated maps with all of the other companies in the city, and were going to start training again with the battalionbased training. Pg e, Public Safety power shutdown, theyre continuing to have meetings all over the region. These are ongoing, and as they get around to all of the other counties, theyre going to move back to us, and d. E. M. Is really helping us to move forward to address the needs of San Francisco, which are going to be unique with the shutdown. I saw some surprised faces there at some of the times. I have a copy of them for you, a hard copy, because it didnt get into my report. I was on vacation last week. I was told to go on vacation, so thats why you didnt get this on friday. Good. [laughter] as the chief said, 4. 44 seconds for the first truck on scene. Theyre literally a couple of blocks away. So were lucky theyre in quarters. As you go down, the second engine on scene took 10 minutes 55 seconds, and we actually did have lights on in this drill so cars would move out of the way and know we were going to something. We just werent allowed to use sirens. So we did have some movement. But we also know they were people that were prepped that we were coming. So they were clearing roads for us. So we actually think these numbers will probably be a little bit worse. For the First Battalion chief, it took 11 minutes. The second truck on the scene, 13, 32 seconds. First rescue squad, 18 minutes, 38 seconds. Second battalion chief, battalion 2, a very important battalion, is 22 minutes and 45 seconds, especially because of them being hazmat. And the first was 24 minutes. Obviously, there is a lot of things weve been trying to work on, havent been getting too far. It was stated that when when we asked for the emergency access lane, it was stated that that third street lane is not possible because in some of the sections, its lanes arthe lanesare only 10 fe, and we require 10 feet 4 for our rigs. There are some sections that have 11 to 12 feet lanes, and were looking into them for a potential Emergency Vehicle access lane there. There is no guarantee well be able to do that. I think the chief covered almost everything as far as the statistics. It will pump 5500 gpm and a single operator in fourwheeldrive with with the streets or buckled and we need to get some place. It will be a good apparatus for us to have. At the end of the video presentation, sandra tongs report for e. M. S. , we just send out 20 offers for the new h3 l1 e. M. T. Academy. We included the identifiable home address. As you noticed, theres not a lot of change in a month to month. It seems like it has been pretty stable. And then the distribution from stationary area, and then the e. M. S. Six report, im sure you picked up on the total number of frequent 911 callers that meet reporting criteria. 640. The total number of calls generated from highfrequency callers is 1,047. Again, 95 of encounters wherewith highfrequency users. The top ten and 20 of the top 20 , 100 of the callers were seen by e. M. S. Vice president covington requested what type of calls we will respond to most, the most identified primary impression on charge of the past year is injuries at 8,818. This includes falls and assaults , and then the number 2 highest call is for altered mental status. The next page, as you know, e. M. S. Has we have two more e. M. S. Staff that begin soon. We should be getting another ship that starts shift that starts on saturday. We will have a shift that goes from 6 00 a. M. Until 6 00 p. M. And that another shift that will go from 2 00 p. M. To 2 00 a. M. We will see how that overlapping works. The commission is also interested in our can administration. There is a form there that separates the narcan that was used by the battalion and identifiable home addresses and nonidentifiable home addresses. I think the allinclusive extensive report is covered. [laughter] and then the airport division, they have been training on active shooter, which in this time, is good timing. It is coming close to the hyatt Hotel Project opening. Captain lee was reassigned to a captains position, and captain robinson was reassigned to Operations Training officer. They also conducted the battalion drill at the airport with our decon unit from the field from the city, from station 29. They conducted emergency evacuation training at the united Operations Training centre. The bike met a continues to be successful. They outfitted a new bike medic. Their total rooms, they have a total of 519. The bike medic total run was 262 the Homeland Security, are covered in a lot of my slides, but i know the drone policy is a big issue. An update request was sent on monday at 7 22 a. M. On the aviation request form for the drone. We are still awaiting a response dont look at me like that. [laughter] it is not my fault. I think the prior Homeland Security was right with its state. Also, Homeland Security and i have a followup meeting. We had our first one in july, our second one with local aid with the elevator repair vendors because of the recent events in new york where they had 400 of a elevators stuck, we are planning on how we will attack those because theres definitely not enough tracks to get stuck people out of elevators. They have agreed, and they are all in so far. We will meet again with all of the vendors to come up with a triage plan with all of their clients. Some of the newer elevators are designed with a backup generator , it is not a problem, they will just be recalled. Other elevators have a string and ring, which means when a string hit the side of a ring because of shaking, it will bring the elevator to the nearest floor and stop. So anything that doesnt happen, either those two would be first on the triage list and they would go around and do their climbs and we are trying to come up with a sticker that identifies so the Fire Department knows that it has already been checked. We will put a sticker on there, a signature, and a time, and we will know it is locked out and tagged out in safe and we can move onto another building. It is a work in progress. I have included the monthly response to medical calls report they incidents by call report, and again, the list of the 13 working fires. Also last month, you asked about operation genesis, so i added a little bit at the end of the report on the innercity Youth Program that we have been helping the Police Department and bringing them to our facilities, and using our dlt and Training Facility to let them see what the Fire Department does and interact with them. It has been working very well. This concludes my report for the month of july. Thank you very much. At this particular point, we will call for Public Comment on the chiefs report. Any member of the public . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Thank you very much, mr. President. I wanted to ask you to go over in a little more detail the hold tender photo that you included, and one of the reasons i ask for more information on the hose tender is because we did spend quite a bit of time talking to the powers that be at city hall regarding our need for hose tenders. I think we have five and we need 20, or Something Like that. This photo is helpful to me, but having served on this body for a few years, i kind of know what im looking at. So what i want is a photo that shares the bed of the truck and all of the apparatus that is in there so that our elected officials will have a good visual of what a hose tender is and what it does. So what we do have is our current hose tenders, which they are not going to look at anything new like these new updated versions, but since nothing has been built like this before so this is being built to our specs . Yes. This is something that was designed completely for us and by us. The specs are getting approved right now. It comes back to the Fire Department and we put the specs more in our writing, then we move it forward. They have to do something visual so the people understand why it is a Million Dollars per and why it is so very, very important in a disaster. So, you know, whatever you need to do to tell the story. Okay. This is for the general public and for everybody to know how important a tool this is so that theres no question. So this is certainly a good photo, but i am just asking for a couple of good photos. Probably the vendor might be somebody that could do a 3d cad drawing. That is a good idea. Other than that, we would have to look for the best artist in the department. Theres nothing like this that i could find that has been developed. That is more of a reason for us to really, really have it and to communicate our message visually, because this would be something, you know, this photo, in addition to perhaps just talk to others, would be something that we can leave with the elected officials and their staff so that they have a weaker understanding of our needs, because our needs are very specialized and, you know, this being designed and built just for this department is another reason to get that message out very, very clearly, and i think its easier for people to understand if it is visual. We will talk to the vendor today and see if we can get some free day 3d photos. Especially the amount of hose that is carried. Correct. Right. Once you see all of the hose stacked up, they say oh, now i get it. [laughter]. Okay. This is not talking about a tender as in how do you want your stake, this is a tender and how much hose can you carry. But thank you for this photo. Also, i wanted to ask you about you said the number 1 on the breakdown of the response is injuries, and the second is altered mental altered mental states. What determines an altered mental state . Those are really kind of difficult. Theres some inconsistencies. When somebody puts altered mental state on a chart, it could be one of many things. It could be drugs, it could be alcohol, it could be confusion, it could be diabetes, it could be many different things, so they are still trying to figure that out with the e. P. C. Our vendor. They are trying to talk to the vendor to break down the number of altered mental step mental status. It is it just a box. We are not positive. We will try and look. That was in my notes here that we will look into that because it doesnt classify altered mental status exactly. I see. I know i have requested some information, and i think for now this is fine. I dont thank you have to do any heavy lifting on this. It gives me more of an idea, that is what is looking for. And the bike medics, it sounds wonderful. Things are going well at the airport. You say we are still awaiting a response from fema. We are. When did the request go in . The 22nd of july. July 22nd. Okay. Do you need for members of this body to make some calls . I will talk to chief cochrane , and if it helps for the commission to send a push, yeah, i will forward you that information. That would be great. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Commissioner hardiman . Thank you. Very good report. We all know you all know we love this report. Wonderful to get this. Narcan, i am glad to see it is listed. But if you compare last july to this july, it has gone up 98 , they use the use. That is double the number from last month. Last month was june. A sad state of affairs that we are going through in this country with drug use. It was about 72 drug dealers arrested down in the tenderloin the other day. I dont much that has been going on as long as i can remember. It was like a revelation. People were coming over from selling drugs. That has always been going on. I dont know what that is going to do, be replaced by some more young people, would hopefully at least they are trying to do something. As the host tender, that is the hose tender, im glad you asked for that photo, commissioner covington. We represent the whole city, but i do live in the western addition, so have been beaten on for a number of years by people who live there that are active in this issue that we dont have adequate hose supply in the western part of the city. This is good to defend ourselves a little bit two commissioners as something is happening. We cant control what happens entirely, so we want to show that this has happened and that people in the western part of the city can feel a little safer that is wonderful. I think getting five new ones is fantastic. That is terrific. Lets see if i had anything else oh, yeah, again, like commissioner covington said, the bike medics, that is great. The gators, if anybody is watching some t. V. , the little golf carts that are used for emergency. Are they batteryoperated or gas the ones we have our gas. Okay. And you have to use a bike at the airport, particularly. It is the getting around there like a few months ago when i was coming back late at night, it seems like i walked a mile and a half to get from that they baggage claim to the international terminal. Im thinking, boy, this is a good idea to make sure we have adequate transportation for firefighters running around inside. The bike would be the number 1 thing to use inside. It is important. It is quick, and the morale is high on the bike medics and it is healthy. It is good exercise. [laughter]. Thank you for your great report. Thank you very much. Commissioner verne az commissioner berenice thank you. I will not say anything about the drones. Thank you for the information on the narcan administration. Are those numbers each time it was used, or each incident it was used in . As i understand, i dont know much about this, but as i understand sometimes it needs to be used more than once. It is the incident. Per incident. Correct. It could be more injections per incident. As commissioner hardiman had pointed out, that has gone up. Is increasing by 100 among our Homeless Populations, which is really interesting, so now that we have this information, what are we doing with it . I know that is a rhetorical question, it is a hard question to ask. That is not a Fire Department question. [laughter] maybe it becomes part of the conversations you were having with the department of health, you know, when you have these conversations say, hey, by the way, this is what we are seeing on the street. I dont know that they see those numbers, or do they . Because we by the narcan from them, so they would see it . No, we can definitely give them those numbers, but they are well aware of what is going on in the streets and do have a lot of their own statistics, as well they are seeing what we are seeing. Okay. I guess, it is just something to think about. We have this information, where can we use it . To either make our Services Better to the city or let the elected snow that, hey, this is impacting us in a way that this is an epidemic that is impacting us and whether it is a financial way, whether it is more fine stress on our units, how do we use this information . That is my open ended rhetorical question. It is really good information to know that the new the use of narcan is up to 100 . It is among the Homeless Population, too because it has gone up a little bit, but not much on the nonHomeless Population. Obviously the fact you have a broken down by battalion shows the real problem is in battalion two. All of this is really good information. The question is, how do we use it . I will just put that out there. Maybe we can figure out some ways to put it put ideas to our benefit. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Commissioner cleveland . Thank you. Thank you for your reports. A couple of quick questions. You mentioned and Emergency Response map. Is that something you can share with the commission . Emergency response map is part of what we call the 103 or battalionbased dispatch. If our communications go down in the Fire Department and there is a horrible disaster, than what we do is we break down the Fire Department into ten different departments. Each battalion, it becomes its own department, so in battalion two, each station has their response area, they have a laminated map, and what they would do is do a quick survey which they call a windshield survey and report back to the chief. The chief stays in the firehouse and basically becomes or she becomes their own dispatch center. We have our maps, our boards, we have some cad computers in the battalion chief houses, and we can become dispatch and run our own little Fire Department, and then through the a. C. , we can start sending some resources to other battalions depending on that. It is a drill that we practised before and we will continue our practising. We will just continue to improve with the new maps so they can pick up with schools, places with Hazardous Materials, some high occupancy loads, buildings that are prone to possibly collapsing, such as educating all the companies in their area. It is just more training. You were doing that on a regular basis . Yes. We have [simultaneous talking] hopefully we will deliver it this week. Were just waiting for approval. We would love to have more information on that issue. Sure. Like my fellow commissioners, i am concerned about the amount of resources our department spends on the frequent flyers. I just want to try to understand a little bit better. With the m. S. Six program, 95 of our 911 calls are frequent flyers, correct . What is the overall percentage of all of our 911 calls that come to us that are not fires, what percentage of those are frequent flyers . With e. M. S. Six, they are e. M. S. Six encounters. They get specially called from the frequent callers. It is 95 of their encounters that were highfrequency users. That is not just all of our medical calls, it is just the e. M. S. Six. What is the overall percentage of all of our 911 calls that art fires, they are medical in nature, what percentage would you say are 80 of our calls are medical in nature, and of those 80 , last month i believe it was 35 that was a person with an unknown address. It varies between 35 and 40 of those medical calls that are persons with an unknown address. What we are not sure how many are frequent fliers . Total number of calls generated by highfrequency collars is 1047, and that is 60 5 excuse me, sixpoint 5 of total calls. His only 6. 5 so only six might five of our 911 calls are frequent fliers . Correct. That was much lower than what i was expecting here. I also appreciate getting the number 2 reason that people are making calls, injury is number 1 , and altered mental his mental state. I do believe we need to delve into that a little further and get more detail. What does that mean, what the percentages are, drugs versus alcohol, versus diabetes attacks , or whatever it might be i would love to have that information. Thank you very much, chief. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your comprehensive report, as always. It is thorough and comprehensive with information. Again, this commission appreciates it. As with the other commissioners, i appreciate the visual in terms of the hose tenders. I know that this is a model from new york, but this model helps, and with the comments from the Vice President in terms of more enhanced visuals, it helps in the education process of that. Other than that, i just wanted to congratulate you, chief to wit, in terms of your position. That he so much for that, as well as i wanted to acknowledge chief Anthony Rivera for his 20 years of Service Within this department. At this point, i would also like to congratulate you, chief nicholson, on the accomplishment of your 100 days in the trenches thank you so much for that. Thank you very much. Madame secretary . Item seven, commission reports. Report on Commission Activity since last meeting on july 24th , 2019. Commissioners, to be have any items you would like to raise at this particular point . The only item i would like to raise is at the last Commission Meeting we were talking about myself and the Commission Secretary trying to organize our retirement ceremony, if you will again, 4. Of information, there are 210 retirees. One of the discussions was trying to have a location. There are some advantages here at city hall with the t. V. Cameras, with the accessibility and the all beyond of city hall, but there is a limitation in terms of the seats in the house, as members come with their family and friends. So one of the ideas was perhaps we could, at a Commission Meeting in october, and the Commission Meeting in december, if we would be able to entertain those concepts as point of information as point of information, the last Commission Meeting in october is october the 23rd, which is a night meeting. Correct me if im wrong, madame secretary, generally at the night meetings were not hardpressed to vacate this room correct. In terms of november, theres only one meeting in november, in this meeting is november 13th, which is a day meeting, which generally means we start at 9 0e this room somewhere no later than 12 15 p. M. There is limitation in terms of that. One of the discretions of that at headquarters was to have it at headquarters. It is just not that easy to get to headquarters now with all of the construction that is going on. If it is a night after eight game at the ballpark also the discussion is if we have a night meeting or a special, we would have to do it somewhere between veterans day, which is around november 13th to december 11 th, which is the last december Commission Meeting that we have. Again, the holidays are generally dominated by family commitments, et cetera, so i dont know quite frankly if a special meeting would accomplish that. Definitely headquarters does not seem like an amicable resource for us. Commission secretary and myself talked about breaking the Retirement Group into two fiscal years because thats where the 210 come from. And if we can, control the calendar of the commission on october and do it at the last Commission Meeting on october the 23rd here is one fiscal year, and then the other fiscal year do it on November December the 11th. So we havent finalized all of this, it is just that we are trying to move towards some dates that would be accommodating for both the retirees and for the commissioners and for the general audience. We will still work on this, if you will, and if you have some feedback to the commission, to the secretary about some ideas one of the issues and the challenges to get a room that is big enough to hold the abundance of family, friends, it is such a limitation of chairs here, a limitation of chairs at the headquarters, and at headquarters, if you have been down to Second Street lately, it is very difficult with all the construction. I just wanted to report that out commissioners . Commissioner hardeman, you had something on this item . I didnt on this item, but i think a few years back we used delancey street for an event, matteroffact with the couple of times we have done that they have been very generous with the Fire Department
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