Approximately. This a reminder that under the administrative code 67 a1 the ringing of set all pagers or turn the device completely off now our regular meeting of tuesday, november 8, 2016, and the time is 901 item one roll call commissioner president Francee Covington commissioner Vice PresidentKen Cleaveland commissioner nakajo commissioner Michael Hardeman chief of department chief joanne item 2 general Public Comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction with respect to agenda items, speakers shall address their whole and not to individuals. Commissioners are not to enter into a debate or discussion with the speakers, the lack of a response does not constitute an agreement of support for statements during Public Comment. Thank you, madam secretary is there any member of the public of that wants to address the commission okay. At this time seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 3 approval of the minutes from the meeting on october 12, 2016. Is any Public Comment on the minutes as submitted . All right. Public comment is closed. Oar my fellow commissioners move to approve the minutes. Thank you is there a second. Ill second on conditions there is some minor changes id like to ill get with most of those are tip graph. We have a there is a motion that has been seconded theres a motion on the floor all in favor, signify by saying i. I passes unanimously item 4 chief of departments from the chief on Current Issues and activities since the Fire Commission meeting including the academies Strategic Planning one and 50 anniversary update special event and communications by the Government Agencies and the public a report from operations on the Field Operations with the greater alarm and bureau of fir preservation and the airport division. Thank you madam president conditionally. Good morning commissioner president covington that is my reports since october 2, 68 regarding the academies all of you were joined us in a celebration last friday with the one and 20 graduations we graduated commissioner president covington you were not with us but friday 51 members that entered into theyre first field assignments as early as saturday id like to acknowledge the division of training for going a great job in moving the candidates forward a couple of weeks to readjust and get downtime, if you will, he then on november 28th well be welcoming the one and 20th first class 42 members of the current natural assessing list joined twenty 12 members from Fire Commission for an Overall Academy length of 20 weeks those members have been selected by my office and notices have gone out an orientation one week on the 21st for the members selected for the academy and the next academy will be held in april 2017 in which question have alternative candidates and also in january conduct backwards and interviews so for the selection and as well as the Second Academy class one 22 in 2015 were proud to report that we now welcome 36 more members both the per diem that brings our per diem paramedics were glad gnaws our search time we call on the part time paramedics to help with the staffing that are worked well in last month loan we experienced the highest call volume i have the numbers 44 hundred code that calls and were meeting our goal which is a 10 minute Response Time in the New York Times percentage actually weve met that goal and building that all the good work by the augmentation has helped us thats good news and technique were going to begin training to bump up from emt for those members that did paramedic licenses to became paramedics working in the system thats approximately three weeks training and planning for hiring thirty to 32 new emts in january all of that is in progress at this time and theres a lot of pieces and parts in order to get United States to where we are at including our department of Human Resources our Investigative Services bureaucracy to do the checks because all of the members need examinations with the director of planning and finance corso is finalizing the draft and will proponent to the Committee Members and the commission i believe that you know with your recommendations we will be prepared to present it at the final meeting Commission Meeting on december 14th the goal to provide you with the draft well before that meeting if it works for you youll be prepared to do that. Regarding our one and 50 anniversary were at the end of the one and 50 year we had a Committee Meeting on october 27th and we have one more event youll talk about in a minute i wanted to highlight what i thought was a wonderful event the Film Festival on the last weekend that we had on november 5th and 6 and commissioner president covington im sure youll hear from a number of people anyone that attended the Film Festival how informative a labor of love a lot of work put in by you and appreciate that on behalf of myself and the public that attended they learned a lot i learned a lot that weekend you put our heart and soul into that the content was excellent a panel on ems and a panel on sunday with the march 2014 a seethe for Young Children to thank you very much i know you put many, many hours into planning that and pulling that off very much appreciated and did nice thing that all of the work you put into it well have for our archives so show it in coming class and the public it is a great resource thank you very much for that and we have next month is the actual one and 50 anniversary or birthday for our Fire Department so plans are underway to have a great day for those who are working on december 3rd we plan to deliver a meal and thank you to all the people working in the firehouses including the airport on saturday to say thank you and the day before well provide lunch that is part of the fundraising as part of committee put the time into raising the funds for that that evening we have working with the firefighter larry and lieutenant mike day to put on a great event at the zoo a celebration of one plus 50 years of Service San FranciscoSan Francisco and expecting 8 hundred people at the zoo more details about follow and to say thank you to the members for the sacrifices and celebrate our wonderful tradition and history regarding events and outreach since the last meeting on october 31st director of planning and finance corso and i attended a 5 year Financial Plan and review of the staffing plan on december 6th we the department held a meeting to go over budget instructions so that will be concurring early next month. Many of us pretty much the whole table attended that is important a scenic Society Event and joined by commissioner hardeman to Pay Attention to the forward members of the department and thank you to the command staff we were able to fill out this and say thank you to those who came before us we supported the Phoenix Society on the second on the third both deputies and myself and our director of Human Resources attended a two hour session a preview by the training that will be taking part in all the members rolled out sometime next year we met with the members of department of Human Resources to talk about how well roll out the training and incorporate deputy chief colin i talked about the graduation on the fourth the Film Festival on the 5 and 6 i had the opportunity the evening of november 5th to attend a 90 celebration for someone that was iconic in the department earl and invited to celebrate with him hes an amazing man looked great and many people and actively and former employees in the Fire Department mr. Gage was in the department in 1955 the first africanamerican firefighter and retired as is coordinator of the Human Resources it is on behalf of the Fire Department and the Fire Commission attended that im going to skip one other thing save it for last but i wanted to remind everyone that we were participating gladly in the upping preyed on Fishermans Wharf 51 and details we can provide on start 7, 8, 9 and specific locations i believe were the number 6 entered the parade on sunday and this year we have a formalized Veterans Association he cant say enough about the great work providing color guards hit the ground running and this year participated and jumped into a lot of the events wed like be participating with us on sunday as well and also wanted to let you you know the Deputy Director of planning and finance conducted interviews last week for the vacate support services i worked in that position from 1998 inform 2000 it is an sgal part of making sure the department runs and the infrastructure wise there is a lot of these responsibilities and we there was a vacancy 29 people applied and looked at it resumes and interviewed 6 im id like to announce through the email and welcomed to the command staff former captain the deputy chief Anthony Rivera. clapping. good morning, commissioners koijz and possible future firefighters i want to say what a great honor for me and my family my beautiful wife lisa and my fatherinlaw and not only are here to celebrate im truly honored and although im changing roles from the bureaucracy of equipment my goal will remain the same is a uphold the goals the Fire Department so proud of position and grateful for the choices youve made if i want to know anything about me. 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Im a native son born and raised in the Mission District i live in north beach with my family and just im a proud san franciscan and thank you for the opportunity. clapping. just 0 finalize i echo the native san franciscan it is value adam i know that chief rivera loves of city and department has a beautiful family you dont recall last month when we accepted the position he said maybe i can one up my son his son won an award and it is an honor to work with i since march 1991 including working a period of time on rescue two and organizing the bureaucracy of equipment and efficiency we have adopted a vision zero goal in terms of our specifications now includes strike team to the extent we know the length and width of of our apparatus making sure our drivers are safely navigating through the city streets are more and more of a challenge and advocating for more than education tools being green where we can be green and bio diesel it is a smooth transition was were on interval part of support services and now joined the staff to also do on phenomenal job of those our facility and working closely with the director of finance yes. It was an easy choice to select chief rivera. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to the department thats all. Thank you chief joanne hayeswhite. Member of the public that would like to comment on the chiefs report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And we will go on to our Operations Report. Good morning commissioner covington my Operations Report for the month of october in this period we have 3 greater alarms the first and second alarm on october 1st at harrison and 25th initial fire on the single story contained 3 garage unit separated by an entrance and the address visible fire it geoguy to the battalion notices the fire to the mixed use building it spread into the attic of the residential unit and within the second story found fire had spread and extinguished that and went to the attic were assigned and all unit did a commendable job another second alarm the address 18 plus noriega there were 3 civilian injuries with the investigation the fire was dpafrpd on noriega it was actually on 21st avenue this unit went to 21st after the fire was well advances on the ground floor with 3 stories a man was at the window we rescued by a ladder a woman resident was outside in our unit observed her running through a wall of flames to retrieve her valuables we absolutely dont recommend this she was taken to the hospital for check up. They all did a good job a r started on the first floor and dropped to the ground floor the firefighters did an excellent job truck 18 the third greater alarm on october 2013 minutes o after midnight on corbett there were 4 firefighter injuries one firefighter had a broken wrist the fire is under investigation the Communications Report many phone calls 24 recorded a fire on the 3 Story Building we arrived and the first chief in command upon arrival a fire from all the 3 floors in the rear the building he noticed a significant fire between the buildings and coming from the garage area 24 was vance into the garage that was the area for the origin of fire a gas meter broken off and was a blow torch this was directly in line with the upper floors of the building i remembered hearing the unit up blow saying a significant fire up above us not a comfortable feeling but carried on with their there was a blue framed building engine 20 shut off the gas and there was relieve from that and early on in the incident does did a great job with a couple of lines preventing a significant fire to that building and the captain recommended they went to the aerial to ventilate and because of growth of the fire they were forced to get off the roof but they did what we could all companies on scene were aggressive we would like to acknowledge the great job been the driver of engine 24 lester did exceptional. 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On october 2nd, 2016, one of the fleet week events was multiple sf members at the jooth club and supplied the drop off aid members of the arms forces and bonded this facility fascists better working relationships on october 5, 2016, the canine rescue unit trained together and members of the armed forces worked a long training event also sffd will be training students other incidents of note on october 14th the sffd worked well with the sfpd during the officerinvolved shooting the sfpd was asked to fill in at the General Hospital our fire chief joanne responded to the hospitalized our prayers to the officer did a great job and hopefully, will recovery on october 29th a male was saved because of great operations under the bay bridge and engine 48 were the first sffd unit to arrive on scene they were immediately directed by the coast guard located at the dock the wildlife fish people the crew stated they were on the bay to monitor the old piers scheduled in the morning awhile on the bay they stated at the corner of one of the officers eye a large flash on the Golden Gate Bridge he directed the other officers looking at the flash caused by a large marine body they revealed that was a male person they brought him to the dock and did basic life support on the dock the 3 coast guards members they remained calm and the victim was combat active because of his link was collapsing their assistance in initiating the we brought our journey to the dock and the patient was lowest and immediately immediately o2 level was to 86 percent the patient had blue lips he was steel combat active and maybe other traumatic injuries due to the state and the confused responses to our requests as we lowest the patient the patient sat upright and figure out 9 oxygen mask and rhetoric lung grafted and the patient was in respiratory agrees we began to see the patient had problems to the left our chief sobered the back of engine and the paramedic john immediately had decompression for the patient the patient was braetd down and unstable with the Blood Pressure of making the plural decompression difficult the compression the patient combative stated subsided and placed a mock shift on the decarve that was placed between the 2 and third phase the patient was now calm and gave a thumbs u. S. Up as he had immediate relief they were reading 96 percent on oxygen and the transported to the code was completed and the arrive time within 8 minutes time for dispatcher was 27 minutes because the courtyard and fish and game this i did not know man will live plural decomposition i can have it described they put a hole in our lungs i wont be doing that part of example but let my colleague explain. Good morning jeff myers chief of ems that is one of the true life threatening injuries that a patient can have in the prehospital environment usually comes if my impact to the cage in which a lung is lacerated or punctured and one of the links collapses because of the pressure within the chest cavity if i feel the chest cavity with a subsequent breathe is more and more pressure the lung collapses down that pressure causes a shift of the central part of chest our heart and lungs are attached and basically kind of rotates the structures this reduces the blood flowback to the heart that disproves our Blood Pressure if not corrected in a short period of time the vit