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Reported vegetation fire in th area of the geysers geothermal plant in geysers road in the area of geyserville, california. First arrived to find a large fire a couple Hundred Acres in size and with the rapid rate of spread. Moving in multiple directions through different drainages and rugged terrain. They quickly augmented the response where we add additional cal fire resources and reached out to local government partners for additional help from them as well. The fire turned out to be fueled by what we believe to be a 60 Miles Per Hour wind and the terrain in that area is very rugged. Throug...

Talking about how different that service would be from the Caltrain Service today. We really are talking about migrating from something thats a traditional Commuter Rail service, where you have a few trains an hour, you have to remember your train number. To something that is for most stations in the system going to be much more of a showupand go service. By directional, allday, really an urban transittype service, where we would have express trains running all day. Express trains by directionally from gilroy all the way to downtown San Francisco. Faster, more frequent service, show up and go ...

Fire department cautioned not to read too much into it saying its not necessarily an indicator that there is a criminal investigation, just standard procedure in an incident this large. Less than 24 hours after fire ripped through two tanks at the newstar Energy Storage facility in crockett, investigators with the contra costa fire department, the atf, and other agencies served a search warrant on the site. At 11 30 this morning, we served a search warrant on newstar, and i want to quickly say that you should not form any opinions about that because this is a common practice. Reporter the evid...

[gavel] good morning and welcome to San Francisco county Transportation Authority Board Meeting for today, september 24th, 2019. Our clerk is mr. Alberto quintanilla. Could you please call the roll. Clerk item 1 roll call. Brown i. Commissioner fewer . Present. Commissioner haney . Haney present. Commissioner mandelman . Mandelman absent. Commissioner mar . Mar present. Commissioner . Present. Commissioner safai . Safai absent. Commissioner stefani . Present. Clerk commissioner walton . Walton present. Commissioner yee. Yee absent. We have quorum. Chair thank you. Colleagues, if you will indul...

Commissioner . Present. Commissioner safai . Safai absent. Commissioner stefani . Present. Clerk commissioner walton . Walton present. Commissioner yee. Yee absent. We have quorum. Chair thank you. Colleagues, if you will indulge me, because of caltrains general managers schedule, i would like to take a few things out of order this morning and start with well, the chairs report, which would be inappropriate. Next item. So with that, i will give the chairs report. This month we focus our attention on regional transportation and the future of caltrain, with a presentation on the longawaited calt...