Within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into a debate or discussion with a speaker. The lack of a response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of the statements made during the Public Comment. Any member wish to give Public Comment . If you do, please approach the podium for Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Clerk approval of the minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes august 28, 2019. If there is a member of the public to give Public Comment on item three, please approach the podium. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary, in terms of this mornings meeting, members of the public, chief nicholson needs to attend an all Staff Required meeting with the mayor in terms of the Mayors Office this morning so i am going to request that we take the chiefs report out of order and following the chiefs report we traditionally have the deputy operation chief give his report because simply when chief nicholson attending the mayors meeting this morning we have the chief come up and represent the chief of the department at this position on the commission seat. Madam secretary, can we move then to item 6. Clerk did you want to do approval of the minutes . Yes, thank you. I did Public Comment on april approval of the minutes. Any questions or discussions from the commissioners on this approval of the minutes . At this point, colleagues, i need a motion and second to approval the minutes. I have a motion from commissioner hardeman to approve the minutes and second from the Vice President. All in favor say aye. No opposition. The minutes are passed. Clerk i think we need to do a motion to change the agenda. President nakajo thank you for that. Colleagues, i need a motion to move the chiefs report followed by the Operations Report up in the agenda. So moved. Second. President nakajo thank you very much, Vice President covington and thank you for the second, commissioner veronese. Any member of the public on that motion . Public comment is closed. Madam secretary. Clerk is that a unanimous . roll call . Thank you very much. Clerk item 6. Report of chief of department on current issues, activities and events since the Fire Commission meeting on august 28, 2019 including budget, special events, communications and outreach to other Government Agencies and report from operations deputy chief on overall Field Operations including greater alarm fires, emergency medical services, bureau of Fire Prevention and investigation. Homeland security and the airport division. President nakajo thank you very much. Good morning, chief nicholson. Good morning. Chief janine nicholson. This is my report since our Previous Commission meeting. Thank you for moving the agenda around for me, and good morning, president , Vice President and commissioners. Obviously, today is 9 11. This morning we had a commemoration ceremony at every firehouse in the city. I thank those who came to station five, commissioners, command staff and others to commemorate the 18th anniversary. Mayor london breed was in attendance as were several supervisors, the head of dem and our Public Safety partners. I also do want to recognize that two of our command staff actually self deployed back then to new york city to work. They really put service above self and thank you for that, gentlemen. Also, with 9 11, tonight chief cochran will throw out the first pitch at the giants game. If anybody wants an autograph from him, you can get that later today. He is a lefty, by the way. That is the neatthat is the 9 1. On saturday we had a stair climb, thank you commissioner for putting that on. Thank you for showing up. The mayor hiked up 61 flights as did i and quite a few other people to raise money for First Responder mental health. Thank you so much, commissioner. Great stuff. The department worked closely with the Cancer Prevention foundation and conducted at the division of training conducted urnary tract Cancer Screening program september 3 through 5. We were able to detail our members to get those tests. They ran out of kit on the last day. They will follow up with those members who were not able to get tested. This is just another piece of our, you know, working with Cancer Prevention and working towards the health and safety of our members. Speaking of the health and safety for our members, myself and chief attended a memorial to Harvey Walker who was instrumental to bringing to light cancer and toxic chemicals. She passed away from cancer as well. We attended that on the fifth. Back to health and wellness again. Cd2 and 3 myself met with and our nursepractitioner met with doctor Jennifer Brokaw who worked with the Cancer Prevention foundation to get our ducks in a row for the health and safety and wellness program, and that chief will be announced this week. We will likely be starting them in their position in a week and a half. Not this coming monday but the following monday. There will be an announcement today about that. Some of us attended the Ribbon Cutting of chase center on tuesday, the third. That first event went off without a hitch, and last night was the first double event at chase and at the giants ballpark. I think people are getting the message to take public transportation, and we are really gratified by that and all of the hard work that a lot of different departments across the city have put in to make that happen. Speaking of the giants, several of us met with george c asta regarding the giants and the Fire Department partnership. What we are looking to do is conduct drills with them with our incident management team, and we are really excited about seeing what this partnership can hold for us moving forward. As you know, at 9 30 a. M. I have to attend the meeting with mayor breed, department heads, and that concludes my report for today. President nakajo thank you very much. At this particular point we will ask for Public Comment in terms of the chiefs report. Any member of the public wishes to give Public Comment, please approach the podium. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Questions and comments from the commissioners, please. Commissioner covington thank you for your report, chief. It is short and sweet. I want to thank you for this morning, the commemoration of the firefighters who were lost in new york on this day 18 years ago, and i would also like to ask chief cochran and the chief to come up and say a few remarks about their self deployment to new york on that day. Good morning. Deputy chief victor. It was a significant number of us. It was 11 of us. We got on the first plane we could to new york. We worked for approximately seven days at ground zero. During that time, we worked usually from the evening all the way to the wee hours of the morning. It was a difficult time. It was, like i told the News Reporters this morning, i havent seen a picture that clearly depicts the magnitude we felt every time we climbed out of a hole and looked around. It is a somber day for us. We all seem to communicate with each other the night before, this morning, checking in on each other to see how we are doing. I am proud of everybody that went out there, again, thank you for the acknowledgment. Good morning, deputy chief mike cochran. So many thoughts. To mirror what the deputy chief said. We appreciate everybody thanking us. The her heroism that day were the real heroes. I dont know how we got the 11 together. We went there to assist. That is our job nationwide. If it happened today, we would go again. I think some of the we tried to help for seven days. After that we realized there were plenty of other responders to help. There was a need for people to go to the funerals. There was firefighter funerals with no attendance. All of the firefighters were on duty or working at ground zero. It was a better utilization of our time and efforts to wear our uniforms and go to funerals. After that we deployed home. Thank you very much for the first hand account and for self deploying and not waiting to be called, which, you know, is just a wonderful testament to you and the nine other members of the department who said we are not going to wait for a call for help. We know help is needs, and we are going. Thank you for that. [applause. ] i dont have any questions for you, chief. Thank you very much. The Cancer Screening, i am happy to hear that happened. I think the times are changing. People are stepping up to do that. That is really cool. What is the next steps for that type of stuff . Is there going to be some sort of announcement to them . There is hipaa stuff. Is there going to be another one so other members have the opportunity . Can you give me a little bit around that . What we did, i asked the chief to see if we could detail companies down there on those three days without impacting us operationally. We had to rotate. We wanted to rotate people through and get as many people as we could, and that is why the Cancer Prevention foundation ran out of kits on the last day. Yes, if there are any issues, anything flagged about those tests, the individual will be notified themselves and either, you know, instructed with next steps. There have been people who have tested, you know, positive for something and have gone to the doctor and there is nothing. We have also found cancer in some of our members, active and retired. It is a lifesaver. I dont know how often Cancer Prevention foundation does this, but it is an ongoing part of what they do for us. Are they using the statistics or data behind it to learn from it . I assume this isnt just blind testing for the benefit of the members there. Is an important component of knowing statistically speaking what the incident of cancer are. There are a lot of scientists and physicians on the Cancer Prevention board. Some of the other things they do, when i was talking about when we met with doctor Jennifer Brokaw, she is more as assisting people in the hospital, figuring out treatment. Some of the other folks are number crunchers and people who put studies together and the like. Chief, i want to thank you for coming on saturday. You were there, you are always there and you always climb. I really, really appreciate the support you have given both to the cause and to the event that we do every year. We raised a record amount of money this year, and we had about 600 people climbing with almost 2500 people donating, different donations. It is a big part of what we do is syndicating the message and getting it out. That is just as important as raising the money. Thank you, chief for your efforts and support. The mayor also climbed and so did supervisor stefani. Every year i finish the climb as a tradition. The former cleave and i cleared the stairs. We do the climb together to end the event. Special thanks to everybody that came out and volunteered and members of the staff that were there. Thank you so much. Now we get to spend money on cool stuff to support the members. That is appreciated. Chiefs cochran and chief we could never thank you for the work you do in the way most deserving. You guys like to, i know it is who you guys are to downplay the importance of what you did, but, obviously, if everybody responded the way i did, nobody would have been there. You know, the people that did show up, it is a big deal, and it shouldnt be downplayed. I know that is the character what you guys do because you feel like it is what you do and it is who you are and that is what makes this more extraordinary. Thank you very of what you do and continue to do for the membership. They know you are there throughout the nation. It is people like you there to support in the hardest times of need. It can never be understated. Thank you again. Thank you very much. Commissioner hardeman. Commissioner hardeman thank you. Chief nicholson, very good this morning. Your brevity is going to be your legend. People love brevity. You can get through so far. A lot of Different Things i have been involved with, you say what you have to say as briefly. I give you a pat on the back for that, and you recognize the people that sign the checks for the Fire Department, the important people at city hall and making sure they dont get overlooked. You talk about 9 11, i think everybody wanted to do something at 9 11, but the 11 that went from this department deserve a pat on the back, especially the two here today. It is funny how you said going to funerals. You are not construction workers. That wouldnt be your thing. What are you going to do push a shovel or attend to give a little respect to the families. That was a good idea. I didnt know you did that. That was terrific. I always try to think of a somber day. Everybody feels the same on 9 11. It seems like it was yesterday. I thought what i could do today. I wore a new suit and american flag. Sometimes i bring to the firehouse and bring a box of candy. It is moving when all 343 names are read. I like the fact they lead with the first name because we are just a diverse country, and we all have interesting last names from where our roots are. It is a very moving day and pats on the back to how it was handled this morning, very good. My favorite restaurant on Market Street was closed at 7 30 a. M. So i had to find another one a couple blocks away. It was good. I got a benefit today finding a new place to eat breakfast. Congratulations to commissioner veronese on the stair climb. I would be dead. There was a time i could have ran there. We would resuscitate you, dont worry. I didnt want to temperaturet myself. Thank you, commissioner hardeman. Since there are no other questions or comments we will ask the deputy chief to come and present his report on operations. I know, chief nicholson you have to leave in a few minutes. Good morning. Deputy chief of operations. Here is my Operations Report for august. We had 21 working fires in august. I have a video of one. We were able to keep them all at first alarm assignments. There was a rescue. This was on commonwealth on august 5th. Again, rapid extinguishment of the fire and rescue, and everything went well. We also had three cliff rescues, five bay rescues, and the San FranciscoFire Department rescued 15 civilians in august, not counting the medical side. Our pio was involved in 50 functions and Community Outreaches. One i would like to mention in particular is on august 19th was the first day of our Mission High School fire ems program. This consists of theory tired and active members of the Fire Department. It consists of San Francisco fire instruction, field trips, and in this class we have 37 students, 15 are female, of those 10 are accepted into the girls fire camp. Station 7 and 6 assisted with a lot of events. I would like to acknowledge them. Wwe willwe will filter through e employee groups through the classes so students can relate to diversity. We want to build on mentorship. First semester is introduction to fire, second introduction to e ms. We are pursuing the ideas to certify as emts in the future. Ems division update. We had 20 selections made for the h3l1 Academy Started on august 26. Iit is a six week program. August 24th is the graduation. Ems expanded with additional unit be to provide coverage from 0600 to 0200 hours seven days an week. On the medical incidents the trend is same from july to august. To the ems6 report, notable total number of calls generated by High Frequency callers was 1,021. 47. 8 percent self identify as homeless. The total number of unique individuals engaged by ems6 was 83. That is up from last months number of 58. We have much more contact. Of the 20 specific people that we track, there was a reduction in call volume from 17 of the 20. That is with the top 20 call volume changed to a drop in 30 . A single Success Story a 61 year old male that accumulated 42 transported in the first four months. In the subsequent four months this is reduced to 10. He is now housed in an sro. Referrals offered, we had 85 referrals offered. We made 40 connections out of those. It is close to 50 in making connections. The xm pages report. The narcan. We had an increase in use by 29 incidents. The percentage of unidentifiable home address were the same. 29 incidents were perhaps due to the opoid strain that is out there right now. I have included the average turnaround time for the hospital and the overall transport medical call turnaround time next month i will make these a little larger so they are easier to read. They are there for us to explain if you would like. Also, we have been deploying our tems medic. We did it at outside lands and we will continue to try to depl