En. I have four good Success Stories via e. M. S. 6, but ill read you the last two. We had a 46yearold male with alcohol history who completed treatment and is now in a step down unit. In 2018, he had 105 sffd transports, and in the previous 12 months, he has had 88 transports. E. M. S. 6 shepherded this person through treatment and he has not used alcohol since june of this year. Also, a 66yearold with chronic medical condition showed a rapid decline over the last three years as showed in this ambulance indication. E. M. S. 6 placed him in the Navigation Center and assisted him with Housing Assessment and application and helped get his documentation ready. He is now housed and reconnected with his children. His last ambulance transport was over five weeks ago. Down below, youll see the referrals made was 84, and the ambulances called were 109. We had 100 , 7 out of 7 mental services. Then on to the division of Fire Prevention investigation data by fire Marshal Daniel dicosio, we have permit application fees collected for september is 90,685. And on page 22, fire complaints, the total number of complaints closed in september was 275. Page 24, the Community Outreach presentations and education, weve had 26 throughout the city reaching over 5,413 community members. On page 24, the fire section update, the total fees collected was 1,383,106. On 31, bureau of Fire Investigation update, the total number of open and active reports for september is 67. During the month of september, b. F. I. Responded to 27 incidents, and there was ten structure fires, ten vehicle fires, seven outside trash fires. There was four arrests made in september by the b. F. I. One for an outside fire, one for a vehicle fire, and one at an outside fire at an a. T. M. , and the fourth was for a structural fire. The airport division, a. D. C. , theyre continuing their training meetings. They prepared for their big annual s. F. O. Exercise drill that was completed this month. Ill have more on that on this next months report. 36, you see their run totals. Total of 513 runs with 244 bike medic runs. Thats been a continued success. And were off to the department of Homeland Security. A. D. C. Cochrans been working hard this work. We did a disaster planning with the transamerica building. Hes been working with the heat outages and advisory calls. Weve been working with our fireboat disaster planning. Be happy to say that our mobile command should be returned next week from its upgrades. We continue to constantly update our Disaster Response manual. As you know, this is a living document, and were getting a lot of help now with our new disaster committee. Theyre very motivated, and theyre helping us a lot along with that. And we continue to get more sign ups from every rank with our newly installed incident management team. Fleet was working tirelessly for the month of september to pull this off, and ill have more this month with the completion of everything that we did. Also worked for a largescale drill that took place this week on Disaster Relief debris. That went off well. And right now, were he is submitting additional grants from uwazi. Ive included the monthly response for medical calls and the total number of dispatches, the summary is 13,378 dispatches. And what youve all been waiting for, the drone update. So weve received confirmation on october 4 from the City Attorneys office, coit, and o. C. A. That the sffd can move forward with the purchase of the drone. Im going to have a little presentation by mark corso to continue. Right now, its a financial issue. Good morning. Mark corso, finance and planning. Yeah, so after chief mentioned, after quite a few meetings and back and forth, we finally received approval after collaboration with the City Attorneys office, office of Contract Administration and coit to move forward with our drone program. We have all the department of home lan security approvals and we have all the adoptions by the commission to move forward. So were working with our vendor a few vendors on quotes and specs, and we hope to have everything over to city importants by the end of the week to move forward on procurement. Yeah. That would cheer you up, and that concludes my operation report for september. President nakajo thank you very much. Well ask for Public Comment before the commissioners give their questions and comments. Any member of the public wish to give Public Comment at this point . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Commissioner covington. Commissioner covington thank you for your report, chief wyrsch. The one greater alarm that took place in the bayview earlier, one of my friends happens to live in one of those three houses, and she says that everyone with the department was just stellar, just absolutely wonderful, and very very calming, informative, warm, you know, just everything. She made me even more proud of the department because i couldnt have been there, you know, of course, to help her in any significant way, but shes very, very grateful for the members of the department and the way they handled the situation and their their concern for each person who was impacted by that fire, so i wanted to pass that on. Thank you. Appreciate that. Commissioner covington youre welcome. Lets see. And page 13, the two on page 13, the examples that you gave of how e. M. S. 6 has really helped get peoples lives back on track, those are really, really wonderful stories. I think somehow we have to get the word out about what a Wonderful Program this is. So that our fellow citizens know that there is an effort afoot and it is getting results, people are being helped in a significant way. There are a couple of people that i see i live in hayes valley. There are a couple of people i see frequently, and i think its like any anything thats seriously that has seriously gone awry in a persons life. It takes quite a while to get back on track, and it takes the whole community to help people to get back on track, so this is one of the ways that that happens, and im happy to see that you have highlighted this in your report. And i appreciate the numbers of the pages. The pages. Commissioner covington i think thats so 21st century, though. Small changes every month. I get a little better every month, yeah. Commissioner covington its very helpful. The grant for 2019, is mr. Corso going to talk more about that or no, thats on page i think its on page 44. The grants under Homeland Security . Commissioner covington yes. Yeah. Were currently working on them now. I think we just got an email that theyre extending it because of the power shutdown. Good morning mr. President , commissioners, chief nicholson. Mike cartwright, director of home lan security. By the 11 Homeland Security. Were goithose got extended of the shutoffs, and were going to meet today. Commissioner covington thank you. Great. And i wonder, the photograph that accompanied the text, was that photograph taken by a member of the department, the fireboat in full bloom and everything, still on page 40 . Oh, that, probably our p. I. O. Commissioner covington oh, its a fantastic photo. I think we need to make as much use of that as possible. We had a nice display behind the mayor when they did a press she did a press conference the other day. Very dramatic. Commissioner covington all right. Thank you very much for your report. President nakajo thank you, commissioner covington. Commissioner veronese. Commissioner veronese chief, that picture of you is priceless. Im not going to ask who you were on the phone with. With the chief. Commissioner veronese okay. Thats a great picture to be used at another moment. Getting to this narcan, july to september 2019, thank you, thank you. This is great information, and it shows that from july of 2018 to september, weve more than doubled in narcan administration, and it appears to be some sort of a spike in april straike that. It goes in april from may to 181, a huge spike. I dont know whats going on on the streets, but clearly, something happened at the end of may that could cause that to would cause that to spike, and im not sure if the department of health has this information but if they dont, we should probably give it to them because it paints a picture of whats going on in the streets, and it would be great to know what the strategy is because these numbers have gone up. Its gone up to 214 from then. Is this something that we see once this strain is it fentanyl or opioid strain stops, it continues to go up as weve continued to see over the last year . Unfortunately, its fentanyl that weve seen increase greatly. Because its so cheap and its getting over here apparently by mail, but were looking into it, and i believe thats the culprit. Commissioner veronese so it may be appropriate to get the to develop im sure theres some strategy being developed around this but it would be great to know especially since this is such a big issue in San Francisco and its affecting our membership and our budget. It would be great to see what the strategy is, whether it comes from the department or the department of health as to know how were going to bring these numbers down. On the next page, if you could explain this start to me that appears that somebody bled all over it because its allred. What is this next chart . Its our ambulance levels by day, and its a little difficult to explain. Sandra tong may have to come up here, a. D. C. Tong, but its basically at 2 or lower for that day. So on that column, its the day of the month, and then, the minutes across the top and the percentage that goes from level zero to less than more than seven on either direction. Commissioner veronese so this is im assuming this is last month, september. Yes. Commissioner veronese could you make chief tong could do this for us. Maybe they could walk us through one of these rows to give us a sense of what this means perhaps the last day of the month, just by mway of example, so that the commission understands what that means. Good morning, president nakajo, chief nicholson, sandy tong, department of e. P. S. If youre looking at last column second to last row is 30 of september. What were doing hooer is identifying number what were doing here is identifying the number we were at level zero, so that means the number of ambulances available at that particular point in time during the 24hour period. Commissioner veronese so what is the column that has a less than seven, is that cumulative of the columns where its zero, one, two . No. It would just be in that moment of time, the number of minutes where we had seven or less. So it would probably be four or five three, four, five, six. Commissioner veronese so 490 minutes, thats eight hours. Are you saying that on september 30, we were at level zero. No. We had seven less than seven. Six, five, four, three, two, one. Commissioner veronese less than seven what . Ambulances available. Commissioner veronese we had less than seven ambulances available for 490 minutes. Right. Commissioner veronese i get it. Thats a lot less alarming than the direction i was going. Yeah. Commissioner veronese so for okay. So for 99 minutes on september 30, we had zero ambulances available. Right. Commissioner veronese thats an hour and a half. Yes. Commissioner veronese thats so for an hour and a half on september 30, is that throughout the day for a 24hour period. Commissioner veronese for a 24hour period. So that could be five minutes at 2 00, 20 minutes at 4 00, those are those numbers added up for that 24hour period. Yes. Commissioner veronese so it was not like there was 99 minutes in time where we had zero ambulances available . Yes. Commissioner veronese okay. Thats helpful. And then, explain to me what the percentage is on the far right. How did how does that work out . That would just be the percentages based on the number of minutes per day, the percentage of time in the court of a 24hour course of a 24hour period where we were at level zero or one or two. Commissioner veronese okay. So on september 30, 6. 9 of that 24hour period, we had no ambulances available. Correct. If i may . Commissioner veronese sure, chief. So this is one of those reports that weve got a lot of pieces and id love to chat with you offline to give you the full picture . Commissioner veronese no. I understand this chart is probably as a result of something i asked for, and a lot of times when you start collecting information, its not entirely accurate because youre pulling in from different places, and you have to work on those statistics, so sure, chief, lets get together and talk about that because i know that staffing is an important issue, and id like to learn more about it and really make sure that we get these numbers down accurately so we can use these numbers to report to people that need to know so that we can then begin a strategy to get these numbers down to so that theres no red on this piece of paper, assuming that theyre fully accurate. Okay. Great. Thanks, chief. Well revisit this. Chief, in regards to the drones, i wasnt going to let you get away with that. When and it is acknowledged that you took all the glory away from being able to announce that this is actually done, you know chief, i acknowledge that week after week, he gets up here and takes the brunt of this, and you get up and say its done, but thank you for that. We all know that. Well share the glory. Commissioner veronese there you go. Share the glory. There you go. The next question is when, so what are the next what are the things that were working on to make sure that theres no additional barriers to making sure were getting these things deployed. Good morning. Mike cochran, department of security, again. We are moving forward. The o. C. A. Process, id have to have mark corso so talk about that if he can because he really helped with the City Attorney and coit meetings. So im not sure if its 30 or 60 days to get it purchased. Next step is certificate of purchase thats tied to the drone. Then our pilots and we should be good to go. Commissioner veronese so are there things we can be doing in the meantime, like training pilots or taking courses, so once were ready to go, theres not, like, a rampup in six months so were ready to go . Yeah. That process should be starting. Internally, were going to start the pilot thing. The main thing was to try to get the drone and get through all these hurdles. I knew it was going to be scrutinized so i wanted to make sure that we did as much as we could to make it correct. Commissioner veronese is the funding there . Funding so theres a grant for the drone, so that moneys there. Im sure its down to the penny. Youd have to ask mark corso for the exact numbers. Commissioner veronese how many drones are we deploying . Because i think we saw a bird took out one. Thats correct. That was an aggressive seagull that took that one out. Were getting one with lights and infrared. This would be the ultimate Fire Service Drone at this point in time, so thats what we put in for and are currently trying to get. Commissioner veronese just one of them . Just one for now. Commissioner veronese yeah, im sure that bird learned that lesson the hard way. Okay. One drone, you think between 30 and 60 days, and thats the Competitive Bidding process you think . Id speak out of turn, mark, on that. How does that o. C. A. Work, exactly . Im not sure. Good morning again. Mark corso. Yes. Its through the procurement process. It needs to go out to bid, but we did speak with the bidding project manager on that and told him that this needs to be a priority, that were bidding on this next week. Commissioner veronese that money thats out there, could we use that for Something Else or is it money specifically designated its specifically designated for Something Else. One is drones, and one is Marine Rescue tools and equipment. Commissioner veronese okay. So thats great. Itll be deployed by the end of the year. Itll be, like, a new years gift or a christmas gift. Okay. Thank you, chief cochran. I wasnt going to let chief wyrsch take all the glory. Understood. Commissioner veronese it looks like the numbers are steady at about 39 , but its down to 33 in october. Thats about a 10 drop more than 10 drop, which is great. Can you explain to me what pages 14 and 15 are . It looks like a spreadsheet of some kind. Those are the x. M. Pages, so its my understanding these are the pages when we might be getting to level zero, but it might be only less than a minute, and when the page goes out to were at level zero, then another ambulance will go back in service or hurry up and go back and service. So theres more x. M. Pages than actual level zero times because if theres no calls on the board, were not missing any calls, but theres a level zero. Is that the best way to describe it . We can we can talk about all this stuff, and ill, yeah, square you away. Commissioner veronese i didnt realize this was part of the level zero conversation. Okay. Commissioner veronese i didnt understand that because thats above my pay grade, but i understand thats the level zero. Well talk about that. And then thats it. Good luck with the fleet week. I know this is a busy week for you, and the fire division. Good luck, and prayers for you all that things turn out as good as they have in the past. President nakajo thank you, commissioner veronese. Commissioner hardeman. Commissioner hardeman yes. I got all of my questions asked by commissioner alioto veronese. The one comment about last year, the narcan, i was out with the crews since the last meeting and talked to other people from other states, staple problem. Were not alone there. Interesting there, the Governor Newsom signed this legislation basically dealing with mental health. And its interesting how all of us like to blame a governor who was in office 45 years ago or eliminating mental health. Its 45 years later, weve been sitting on our hands for a long time, so its nice to see something happening and not blaming somebody for something that they did something 45 years ago. I did notice something in new york, the street people, wow. Compared to the last time i was there, which was, like, five years ago, was night and day. They were everywhere. Not so much as panhandling, but as sleeping on the side of the streets. Very di