To participate by phone dial 4156550001 and use access code 2483 379 2202. The public is asked to wait for the upon agenda item before making a comment on that item. Comments will be addressed in the order received. When the moderator announces the commission is taking comment members can raise hands by pressing star 3. Callers will hear silence when wait being to speak. Operator will unmute you. Callers will have the 3 minutes to provide comment. Ensure you near a quiet location. Speak clearly and turn off tvs or radios around you. Item 1. Roll call. President feinstein. Present. Vice president nakajo. Present. Commissioner morgan. Present. Commissioner fraser. Present. Commissioner collins. Present. Chief of Department Jeanine Nicholson. Present. No audio. [applause] [cannot hear speaker] she started Development Companies and consulting companies. And from everything i hear it is a real delight. And incredible low hard worker. We need and you welcome you. Anyone of us is here to assist if you need any assistance in anybodying. I think will find the Fire Department has its own language. And we are working on our glossaries of reports so the abbreviations can be understood by us and the public. So. Dont you are not a shy person i know that. Dont hez ve hesitate to ask questions. I wanted say, welcome item 2 president fine stein read the land acknowledgment. Ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement the San FranciscoFire Commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. Item 3 general Public Comment. Members may address the commission up to 3 minutes on any matter in the jurisdiction this does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address to the commission as a whole approximate not to individual commissioners or Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter in debate or discussion with the speaker. Lack of a response boy the commissioners or Department Personnel does in the necessary low constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. If you like to comment by phone raise your hand by pressing star 3 now. I dont see anybody in the odd yenls. Audience. Would you like to make Public Comment. Ja good morning. This is dave tilde [inaudible] rincon be [inaudible] Association Im getting feedback on this line. I will continue. We have contacted the Fire Department a number of occasions about what appear to bes a dangerous [inaudible] situation and have had no clear response on [inaudible] this feedback is coming through the phone, not my tv. You know there is a saying that public faith [inaudible] using if you see something, say something. Thats fine but there is an obligation there that somebody says something that the officials do something. People are not going to [inaudible] our concern is that hundreds of residents are repeatedly being instructed to [inaudible] alarms they may hear. We believe is always risky. But here we are told to ignore alarms for an uncertain amount time and sometimes for many hours. Almost all day. And for no reason we can make out. If you recall they tell you to ignore alarms when there is test nothing a remote portion of the large complex. Alarms we not hear being tested. Why are they telling us to ignore alarms well not hear . It is a ridiculous situation and management keeps blaming the Fire Department saying thats had they are ordered to do. Because this instruction was given on an uncertain time period. Can be all day people lose track if it is still in affect. We ask this somebody in the Fire Department tell us if this confusing process is being impelemented here acerately. To give you an example of a problem last saturday we were told to ignore alarms around 9 a. M. I went out and came back at noon. I did not know if the order was in affect i asked at the front desk. I said when i left we were under instructions to ignore the alarms. Now that im returning to my apartment should i still do that . Should i respond to alarmings. Your time is up. Thank you very much. The person did not know. That is all of Public Comment. Public comment shall be closed. Item 4 approval the minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve the Meeting Minutes from our october 26, 22 meeting. All right. And do we have any Public Comment on the minutes . S caller, will you like to comment on the minutes . Um i would like to know who i can call to find out about the situation in rincon planner. Would you like to make if i call the [inaudible]. Will anybody respond . Any further comment. No. All right. Any questions, discussions, corrections . By any of my fellow commissioners on the minutes . Im seeing none. May have a motion motion to approve the minutes. Thank you. Is there a second. Thank you. Moved and seconded. President feinstein . Adopt the minutes. Vice president nakajo. Adopt the minutes. Commissioner collins. Adopt the minutes. Jot motion passes 4nothing. Item 5. Chief of departments report from chief of Department Jeanine Nicholson on issues, activities and events Went Department since the meeting on october 26 of 2022, including budget, academy, special event, communication and out roach to other Government Agencies and the public. And report from operations deputy chief Robert Postel on over all Field Operations leading greater alarm fires. Bruro of Fire Prevention and investigation. Training within the department and the airport division. Greetings and salutations, all. Im your San Francisco fire chief jeanine nicholson. Madam president feinstein. Vice president nakajo. Commissioner morgan and fraser and new commissioner collins, welcome temperature it is a tloil have a full commission. Now i have somebody across from me i can look at. Welcome and we i appreciate every one of the commissioners and look forward to working with you. Greetings to command staff here and to sister maureen as well. As you know, i was off for a week. And so i dont have a lot to report. But one thing of interest, there is no mayoral Department Head meeting today i dont have to run out after 15 minutes. And i will have a meeting with the mayor tomorrow. Month low meeting. This afternoon we are conducting interviews for diversity, equity and inclusion chief. Before i left on my trip, i met with district 8 supervisor mandelman who i see has won the election. And he has voiced concerns around his district before, you may have sewn it in the media. We had a good conversation with him on how our street teams work. In his district. Hoe is policed with the Fire Department. That was a good meeting. We have april 60 candidates going through all of their medical background now. All their medical tests and for a class of firefighter h2 academy coming in january. We are moving along with that process. We expect somewhere around 50 may be more than 50 to be in the class. We always start with more recruits not everyone make its through all of the hoops they need to jump through. That is moving along well and the Doctors Office got dp them through thanks to them. And you know our other members do a lot of good work i know that chief postel and tom will speak a lot about our rescues and fires and medical and community and paramedicine and the new subway we have. It is 10 stories under ground. It is a challenge but our members have been doing great work there with the mta. Graduation of the current h2 Firefighter Academy is november 18th. Would love to see you all there. If you are able. As november 18th. November 18th. Which i believe is next friday. Is this right. So and yea. Would love to see you all there if you are able to attend. It is i festive a nice occasion for families and the staff and everyone. So and then covid is around but has really decreased. You know we have a few people half a dozen off longterm covid. We have very few new infections these days and the department is doing well with that. Im very pleased. One last thing the macys Tree Lighting tonight. My staff will be there with neil in the square. That is all i have to report. All right. Thank you, chief and welcome back. Thank you. All right. Do we have Public Comment on the chiefs report . All right. And nobody in the audience. Public comment will be closed. And turn to my fellow commissioners for questions for the chief. Im seeing none. Your lucky day, chief. I know and i dont have to run to the mayors meeting i was ready to be peppered. I was going to say that and i thought better ask. We will proceed to our next item and that would be chief postel. Good morning. Good morning, chief and staff president feinstein and Vice President nakajo and commissioners morgan, fraser and welcome commissioner collins to the greatest Fire Commission and Fire Department in the world. This is an organization with a tremendous amount of history. There is pride. We are recognized throughout the country and the world for the way we do business and whether the cutting edge ems stuff or effectiveness with fire suppression. There is no one this matches what this Fire Department does and im proud whf we do here. With that, welcome. I will move on to our report. This is bob postel the deputy chief operation this is is my report for october 2022. During october there were 20 fires one of these was a greater alarm. I will get to that. There were upon 7 water rescues and one cliff rescue. The second alarm 1926 palua fire in the rear of a family dwelling 2 story wood frame house it was a shallow house. Had a partial sublet on the rear and the 2 buildings on either side extended beyond the rear of the original fire belling. The companies had heavy fire in the rear. And the 2 structureos either side. First was lead through the fire building on the ground throughout garage to the rear. The chief recognized the building on the right the belta exposure. And because of that, there was minimal damage to that building the exterior siding was burned but they contained the fire and keep it out of the walls almost no damage or displacements from the building the third had to go above the fire. The fire was already in the ocpied living space and traveling toward the street. We had to contain that. The second Alarm Companies went in to the building on the left the bravo building. Contain today to the roar but there was damage. In the attic. When they show up on scene there is always rescues to be made and expose urs, occurrence special over head wires that give us access issues. So our chief officers and the division chief Dustin Nguyen who showed up, they have to make split second decisions where to deploy the resources and trianning what is happening at the events. So that they can have dot greatest good for the incident. In this case they really minimized the exposure and problem in the delta building. Did the best they could in bravo. Had they focussed on the main fire building there was be more damage. Quick thinking by josh and the leadership by Dustin Nguyen. To have 3 buildings going and all of that happening at one time. The lessons he learned he will share and well all grow from it. A great job by everybody on that one. I mentioned there were several water rescues last month. During the sum and fall we have a lot of water and cliff rescues. In wind they diminish. The other night about 6 30 at 9 there was a surfer at dead mans cove. Hit in the head with surf board. Disorientd and drifting out and it was after dark. His friends reported him lost. And the rescue stations and jet skis made their way around and our coastal rescue units and surf rescue got out and put 2 people in the water and swim in the dark. Find the super and swim him to the rescue boat. Get him on the boat and he was alive and breathe when they got him to the dock and had a head injury what the extent of that i dont know. Had our people not got in the water and got him that would be a life loss. We make a tremendous difference beyond fires. Everything we do every day. Thats the operational part of the job. Fire prevention. In my capacity as the operations chief this is for you commissioner collins i over see training Fire Prevention and the airport and the operations of the department. Field operations. Fire prevention and fire marshall ken, completed 2100 inspections. Thats a lot of work out there. 380 complaints can be a fire code violation. Received during the month of october. 237 for a violation came to our Company Based residential building inspection program. That shows you that how our different divisions Work Together. Our companies in the fields are doing inspections they are finding fire safety violations they will rereport them so they can follow up and address those and get those rem deed that is 2 thirsd came from our own people noticing them. In the report listed different types of complaintos page 8 if you want details. And issued 413 operational permits. During october. These being be for public aaccept blees. Gas stations open placements. Upon community out reach people run through the bureau 5 prevention. Attended 911s do recruitment and public sxejz an opportunity for us to inneract with the public and teach them about fire safety and when we do and make us available to them as career choices. Plan check. They are under assistant fire marshall it 668 permits submitted during october and 580 permits were approved. This is for all the construction you see going on in the city. South vaness i will talk about in a minute. Done a great job to get thicks going in the city. We have i spoke briefly about housing. A special unit in the bureau lead by fire marshall lou russell. Works on Large CommunityDevelopment Projects related to affordable housing. And they also work the addition of additional dwelling units. In order to get more housing in the city. In the report the projects they have been working on. But one things there was an e mail received i want to read it to you i did in the include it in the report. This e mail came from philip wong the project manager in the office of economic and workforce development. This is regards to a press release the Mayors Office put out Ground Breaking of 157 new affordable home and Childcare Center at potrero hope sf. Here is the e mail this is addressed to lou russell the assist an fire marshall and cammal, a civilian Fire Prevention engineer does heavy lift to get projects through. High chief russell and cammal. Thanks for your work on the potrero hope s project you are the most dedicated people i met. Families will move in fair safe housing because of you and your team. Gratitude, philip. One of the many things going on in the department and people dont get rescue nigsz they make this city better. Wanted bring that to your attention. Under Fire Prevention the fire investigation. 8 inspectors and 3 lieutenants. They investigate any suspicious fires or fires we are unable to determine a cause. They responded to 9 structure fires and 10 fire incidents and everyone of the fires it is a big much more indepth report they dom they dont do a brief they do an indepth report. It is a lot of work they are doing there. The upon airport, pat dorsey, during october they responded 470 incidents. And of the 470 incidents, 31 were elevator rescues. I know president feinstein very concerned about the elevators i thought i would highlight that for you as language as i dont have to take one 31 successful elevator rescues. I would expect nothing less, chief and Emergency Responses. Dorsey the chief rescued all the meetings are detailed in a report. A large part is beyond their daily response is preparation and training we hope never happens they take this seriously. I saw all this work pave their drill back in september that is their work load. Next is the division and training under e chief. The recruit class will graduate on november 18th. 44 of the 51 remain in the class and participated everyone will graduate. You will see photos getting their ride on the fire boat after they assisted with the hose testing. The most new person tasks a new firefighter has to learn, cook. The respect is developed between the staff out there and the recruits and they get a bond. This is a way they sort of bridge that gap with the structure and the student at the end of the academy. There are photos showing during live burn training and running on the bridge, physical fitness is integral pa