Before i start that, i just wanted to say that since the last meeting, we have gone from summer to winter and from fires to floods, as is how it goes in San Francisco. I just wanted to say thank you and to acknowledge the department of Emergency Management, the p. U. C. , public works, m. T. A. , fire and rec park. We met yesterday to review the citys response to the december 7th storm and recent flooding. As folks are probably aware, we had an out of nowhere, almost tornado, technically a micro burst, but it dumped a whole lot of water on the city in a short period of time on a saturday afternoon. So, due to that, we have been working on adjusting our plans to be more ready to respond in a no notice storm event, which is fairly unusual. However, due to the variability in weather and Climate Change and changes on the planet, we have to be ready for the unexpected. So, we are working on improving our situational awareness, operational response, and our public messaging regarding the storms when they do happen. Secondly, were going to move into the recent activities also this week. We had a Safety Assessment program, proof of concept. It is also known as s. A. P. , which is really a state program that engineers throughout the state to do building assessments, building and structural assessments after disasters, in particular earthquakes. We had this exercise on monday lead by the City Administrators Office with other department participation. I was really, really pleased of the progress that the group has made. We had cal there also who took me aside and is very thankful for San Franciscos work. We are leading the way in this state to do assessments. What we did is set up equipment at a potential area we may activate. You can see, its not just about bringing engineers in and sending them out. Its a list to pull folks from all over the state to come and assist us. We need to provide sheltering. These may be folks not familiar with San Francisco. We have to orient them. So it was a great opportunity to actually practice taking information in, both manually and electronically, pulling that information up and being able to get that information out quickly. I really want to do a big shoutout to the Planning Team because they had only a few months to pull this together. Ed, libby, nick, danielle and ray. Hes heres a photo of them. A great looking group up there. This is a significant deliverable from the Tall Building study that was published last week. Im very proud of the progress we made on it. We will be continuing to work going forward. It was published last year, Tall Building study. Yes, published last year. Another major preparedness effort we have been working on is power Public Safety shut off. Hopefully everyone here is well aware of what they are. The program that proactively deenergi deenergizes wires during high fire risk. This was activated several times this year. One of the Big Questions for the Public Safety shut off is what does this mean for San Francisco . Pier 3 districts are the ones most at risk. Were a tier 1. We dont have a high risk for wildfires in San Francisco, thankfully, however there are transmission lines that go through those districts. In general, we feel like we have to prepare for these outages. I am thankful that we saw significant regional outages and we in San Francisco did not experience those outages. I think that was reassuring for everyone. Nonetheless, we are preparing. We had a number of workshops over the last year and particularly over the summer. In june, we had a workshop just for City Departments. In july, we invited our private sector and nonprofit partners in, and in august we went regional with our fellow partners at the regional level, both other counties and the state. The objective for the workshop were really to gather information, share information, and look at consequence management. Should we have a major power outage, what would be the consequences . Its similar with our private sector. To understand where their vulnerabilities are, what we can do to support and help them and also generally share information on what they can expect if this were to happen. Those were similar objectives for the regional workshop and sha sharing Public Information and getting them aligned. So our citywide findings were basically included how essential services will be maintained or how we will maintain continuity during a power outage, especially those services that serve our most vulnerable populations. We discussed the scarcity of fuel, and other technologies. If this sounds like what we would be preparing for, for an earthquake. It is. The only silver liniing is that we have made some significant progress in some of our planning and preparedness that will serve us well during an earthquake. For communities around us, thats the same. For the private and the nonprofit sector, we really highlighted continuity for businesses of all sizes and sort of are learning more which businesses have more to deal and operating is on their own and which will need our help or support in the longer term. Then finally the regional workshop was eye opening. It seemed that we were pretty much ahead in some jurisdictions around the continuity of the operati Operations Planning process in particular. Many departments have been working, doing a lot of work on this. This will be a big follow up for us in the coming year. So, just looking at the pfps events that did happen, there were seven major events. The three big ones happened in october. You know, when you can see on the slide number of customers. A customer actually is usually more than one person. Thats the power connection. So the numbers were really huge. While we did not in San Francisco experience a power shut off, many, many of the folks that work for us did. Many of our own employees. So what we learned really was the impact to essential service is significant for San Francisco, even if were not losing power. So i really wanted to shout out to d. H. R. , mickey, and your staff. Im so thrill with the progress you made and were able to identify employees and get information out to them and back and forth. Its something were definitely going to need in other events. Thank you. In addition, we had to activate, for a number of reasons. We had our own in city planning, we were coordinating with if state, looking at other utilities. Ive lost my thank you my handy assistant here. Okay, moving forward, we will hear more about this. What we realize again is our employees are affected. We will do a follow up meeting in the First Quarter of 2020 to review what all of the marching orders that we put out last year, to see where departments are. Looking at how the tsps did impact us, and i think one of the big things we learned was the fact that we have to provide assistance to our neighbors. Unfortunately, what the state is saying in other jurisdictions is the likelihood of fire happening regionally, this is not something thats likely to go away any time soon. So, our ability to provide mutual aid and well talk more about that in a meeting, is going to be critical. So, lets see. Finally the Public Awareness campaign for pfps is one of the deliverables that we put forward that were most proud of. This is a regional, coordinated regionally, really need to get this information out. So, we have put this out through social media and neighborhood organizations and community groups. Its because we had so many significant cal pspfs that the public is fairly aware of this program and what they need to do. In addition, if we do have an event, we have a robust plan to notify people ahead of time, asuturiining assuming we get that notification and reaching out to our partners, and other stakeholders. The other thing is that were paying close attention to the other counties that have been through this and looking at their Lessons Learned, incorporating that into our planning. So thats pfps. Are there any questions from the council or anything to add to that . The only thing i would add really good presentation, is that the Lifeline Council which brings together all the different utility providers, and there are 12 or 13 lifelines around the city. They had a discussion in september about the program and the different events that happened. We had several events happening around power outages, earthquakes, and so forth in october through november. We had an open discussion able that. There is going to be a follow up meeting to focus on the telecommunication issues that we heard, some of the challenges with cell phone access or mobile phone access, and the towers going out because the battery lives didnt last long enough. Were going to have follow up discussion on that and some of the other solutions as well in the march meeting of the Disaster Council i mean the lifelines council. Were going to continue to get at some of these issues through that body as well. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Anyone else . Okay, at this time the public can address the Disaster Council. Is there any Public Comment . Okay. Hearing none, we will move on to our third item or the third report, Emergency Response. Again, in october, as you saw in the previous presentation, there is significant fire risk and fires. In october, the kincaid fire ignited. It burned over 77,000 acres and prompted the biggest, or the largest Mass Evacuation in california history. So although we werent directly impacted, as we look at these events, San Francisco is called on to respond. Several agencies, including d. E. M. Sent Public Information officers to assist with public notification alerts and warnings and helping evacuees with coordination. I want to offer fire, police the opportunity to speak. We can start with fire. Good morning. On the 24th, we received a mutual aid request for one of our oes engines. Thats an engine supplied to us by the state of california that we staff and make available to respond on a mutual aid request. We have one of those in San Francisco. That was staffed with four individuals. It was sent in the early mornings of october 24th. Later on that day, we received another request as the fire was developing for what is called a strike team. A strike team, being fire engines in this case. Its usually with five fire engines and strike team leader, which is an individual that has been certified and passed off on how to manage a Major Incident and strike team of the 20 individuals that will be deployed out. That deployment left early in the morning at 4 00 and responded out to the kincaid fire. On the 26th, we received another request for additional resources, and we sent two additional engines with a total of eight firefighters to that. They were attached to another strike team, which is called a multicounty strike team. We did not have the ability to give them five engines, but we have other counties that may have one engine or two engines and together we can combine one full strike team. All together are eight engines that were out there. We were out there for roughly seven days. They did a multiple variety of tasks, including fire suppression, fire mitigation, meaning going up and making sure that fire lines werent coming up to the communities, evacuations, feeding animals while they were out as a collateral duty, doing rescues. For the second strike team, the five engine strike team, they were on the line for about 28 hours prior to being able to get whats called a they call it a day off. Its not a day off, but its a rehab, reevaluation of all their equipment, cleaning. When they say its a day off, they get off the fire line from fighting the fire, doing evacuations, from helping people in need. Then they go back and they have to clean the apparatus, they clean all their tools, make sure everything is working, make sure all their supplies are set, and then they get a chance to get some rest to go back on to the fire lines. Those personnels are available to get called back they call it blowing up, as if the fire progresses rapidly and thats unexpected. In our circumstance, that did not occur. On an internal note, we did have a shelter here in San Francisco. The incident has Public Information officers that are attached to the incident. We have a Public Information officer for our regional shelters, from san rafael to alameda county. The fire sent myself to assist that individual, to acclimate them to what we have here in San Francisco and assist that individual with a couple of their presentations at the actual shelter we had. Thats what we have for the Fire Department. Any questions . Thank you. Chief scott. Thank you. The Police Department also received a mutual aid request from Sonoma County. We started with our deemployeement on the 26th. We sent a contingency of officers to Sonoma County for the purposes of assisting with evacuations and also prevention of luting for those who have been evacuated. Our deployment was in shifts. We had 24 hour coverage and our officers were basically stationed there with equipment to make it logistically easier. The officers were transported by van to then assume their evacuation duties in sonoma counties. So overall, the deployment varied from the night shift to the day shift. We basically were able to assist that county we Evacuation Services and prevention of crime. I think there was one arrest by San Francisco p. D. Officers during that period, but basically that was our role and duty. Thank you chiefs. Sheriffs department. Thank you mary ellen. The Sheriffs Department had our Field Operations division converted to a 12 hour shift plan. At the kincaid fire, we deployed nine operational periods of 12 hours each, 24 hours a day. The department ended up deploying 190 sworn staff for mutual aid, much of the same way as the Police Department did. We had a number of various assignments, ranging from patrol of the effected areas. We assisted in road closures. We secured areas under evacuation orders. We checked on businesses, escorted residents into areas closed off to the general public and patrolled the area near the safari zoo. We also were part of the evacuation shelter that was set up at saint marys cathedral for five days, and we had deputies assigned there for nine operational periods. Thank you. Thanks to everybody, including d. M. Staff who deployed. We always bring back very important Lessons Learned when we go out to these things. So, 3 Million People in the bay area without power due to the weather conditions that made the kincaid fire so concerning and it resulted in over 185,000 people in Sonoma County under evacuation order, due to the fear that the fire would spread. So, because of that large number of evacuees, San Francisco was asked to open a shelter in order to house residents that were leaving their homes and did not have space up in sonoma or marin county. So the Operation Center here in San Francisco opened on october 27th to identify and ready a location that could help these folks and Human Services agency and American Red Cross worked together to staff that shelter while the e. O. C. Was activated to support the operations, provide public messaging, and coordinate employee notification and serve as a link to the state. Im going to introduce doris, the Disaster Preparedness and response manager who will brief us on that operation. Thank you for setting the stage and sharing with everyone a little bit about the incident. So here in San Francisco were asked to support our neighbors in the north and open an overflow evacuation shelter for 500 residents from marin and Sonoma County. So as mary ellen mentioned, its the fire coupled with the pspf event which made the response really challenging, especially for those evacuating and looking for a place to stay while the incident was being taken cared of. So, when the request came in from San Francisco, our mission is to provide an accessible shelter and environment where they can feel safe and secure. We know from past fires that people evacuate with their pets and prefer to go to shelter environments where they can bring them along so they can provide care for their pets. In addition, basic medical care is really essential. People lose their prescriptions. People need to be seen and providing that in the shelter space is very important. Thank you to her staff for providing that. People evacuate in their vehicles, all of their possessions are in their car. So parking, safety of parking was a real concern around this event as well. We talked about some various options, but what it came down