Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

This. Im looking at you gail and patricia and jim and so many other people. Jason, allen, cat, the earth his only people in this neighborhood that rise to the occasion and really help us do what we need to do to be prepared. I want to thank everyone who has joined us today. I look forward to continuing our work to be prepared for the next earthquake, and i want to thank our First Responders. I have so much respect for all of you. All of our Police Officers, all of our firefighters. What would we do without you . You are amazing. Especially here in San Francisco [applause] with that, i would like to call up San Francisco battalion chief [applause] it is dangerous to give me an open mic. I have limited time. I am a talker. It is an honor to be here today. Thirty years ago the deputy chief and myself were pro bees, we didnt even earn that status. We were in a fire academy and at 504 we were being dismissed. And in the yard, he always had to run in the yard unless you are doing a training thing. We were all running towards that sevenstory at the time and it was a brick building. I saw it go back and forth swaying and swaying. And then all of a sudden you started swaying and the captain told us to hit the ground, cover your head, and we didnt even know what hit us and then we realized. It was going on for a long time. It really was. I mean, it was my anniversary, my 30 Year Anniversary, but we had been doing this for years. No matter where we are, no matter what fatality, what country, we are there for every disaster. It was amazing. Later on i went home quickly, checked on my dog who was hiding , he never did that. I made sure she was all right, went back to station seven and i said, i am a pro be, can i answer phones . Answer phones, get on the rig i got on the rig. I didnt even have a coat, i just put on some oldtimers turn out. We went to south of market. The entire south of market had their horrible collapse on the street. The entire south of market smells like natural gas and it was really an eerie feeling. Then we swooped into the marina where i was dropped off and we have a very special guest a little later that will tell us his story, but i was dropped off after at the marina. Basically what i did was help expand the auxiliary portable hydrant system that you see right here. When it opened the hydrant in the marina, which was a disaster area, it was several square blocks of houses leaning, garages buckling, and then the dramatic threestory building that ended up in the intersection with where the big rescue was. When he opened up the hydrant it just dripped out. One of our chiefs at the time invented this system. We have had the auxiliary system since 1915, but he invented the portable hydrant system. That beautiful fireboat out there was an older one and pumped from the bay into a manifold and we were able to create a hydrant system to put the fire out. Basically i just moved hose and that is what i did, but hopefully he will come up at some point, but he did a terrific rescue while i was moving hose. He was crawling in 35 feet into a dilapidated building, barely shoulder space with a chainsaw. Meanwhile, aftershocks were going on. It smelled of natural gas. He hears a woman calling, yelling for help, he is making his way cutting piece by piece trying to shore up for his own safety, getting in there. He gets close to her, and then finally, i think it was the blade that winter he had to get something, a new chainsaw, he was so scared he would leave and not come back and he promised her. That is promised that he kept in that is a promise we keep to you when we swear in. We will be there and he showed that hand raise and he got back and there, cut more away and got her out. He saved her life. He has done so many awards for that, so many accolades, but the truth of the matter is, it is a twoway street with the community and us. She saved his life. She taught him about better things. How to live better, how to live more sound, and a more peaceful. They became friends for the rest of her life. He will carry that in his heart. Anyway. Im just going to get a little corny for a minute. My dads not alive anymore, but he was so proud that his daughter went to that fire, because that was my first fire, and somehow i ended up in Sports Illustrated. [laughter] you know, this is an old because theres a marlboro ad at the back of it. [laughter] all right. I am a ham, but who knew i was going to be in Sports Illustrated . [cheering] okay, okay. All right. The next day we went down there and worked on the marina, my dad walks into time warner building in manhattan, because he was mre said, thats my daughter, thats my daughter, and they said, yeah , whatever. He said let me get my boss down. Some some boss comes down and says come back in a week and they blew up a big poster of that picture. Anyway, dad, we did it together. He was the one that called and told me the bay bridge collapsed we had a power failing. None of us headphones. He called on a land line. Remember that . Landlines. Who has a land line here . Excellent. Thats pretty good. But on a more serious and, enough with this. I know that our whole careers we have been training and trying to improve. And i know chief nicholson, that is one of her big agendas, is improve the disaster plan. It really is the birth of the organization because it was amazing to see civilians and fire and anybody moving hose to get that system up and running because the marina was so full of natural gas and we had already had an explosion. It was really incredible. I love working with them in training with them and practising. We are here for you. We always will be and we love San Francisco. We are going to pay tribute to the seriousness of what happens that day, but we are also celebrating an earthquake. It is just amazing what San Francisco does. We come out for everything. Anyway, we love you, and when we raise our hands, we really mean it. It is a twoway street. I will introduce jim at maxwell. You have a few things to say. [applause] good afternoon. I just wanted to really briefly thank the mayor and supervisor stefani for putting this event on. Its so important that we continue to remember that 30 years ago, this city and our neighborhood were rocked. We were in shock, but it really galvanized us as a community to come together. As we have heard, the organization was born out of this event and that people came together and Work Together sidebyside with fire to help put out the fires, and we are really pleased that we are starting our resiliency d2 efforts because its that tenacity and the resiliency that will make us strong and be able to bounce back the next time we have to face such an event. I also want to say its important that as communities who come together and we all know each other. These events are great. We need to have more Community Events were you get to know your neighbors and make an effort to say hello to a friend, make an effort to get to know your local merchants as well. The merchant corridors a need to be resilient. They are the ones that will be providing for us in the next big event, and i think everyone remembers how they didnt have power or anything else, either, but a lot of them banded together and somehow provided food, they provided water, they provided a place for us to gather, and we need to remember that Going Forward as we move forward. We have been working on a little neighborhood actually, it wont be in the neighborhood now , but a memorial to the earthquake. That is close to happening. That has been 15 years of grassroots effort. [applause] a number of folks have been involved in putting that together. That finally will happen down at twentytwo at station 35, which is appropriate since it is also to honor the fireboat phoenix i was instrumental in putting out the fires here. As we were putting that together , and artists were talking to neighbors, one of the things that came out of a few Community Meetings that i remember very specifically was, everybodys remembrance of that there was the earthquake, there was the event, and after that there was immediate silence that descended on the city, on the neighborhood, as everyone took stock of their surroundings and what was going on. He was at that point that a lot of neighbors wandered out of their homes, looked to their other neighbors they possibly hadnt even met before, and said , hey, how are you . How are you doing . As everybody okay . That connection was made. We need to keep those connections strong so we can be resilient for our next event. Thank you, mayor. [applause] okay. Our plan was to have enough speeches until we could get to the right time, but clearly we didnt have a lot of politicians speaking today. [laughter] so we will have a fireboat display from the San Francisco Fire Department. There we go. Look to your right, you can see it. Some of us also remember that there was a World Series Game going on between the giants and the as. [indiscernible] come on up, chief. Good afternoon, everyone. I am the chief of the San Francisco Fire Department. [cheers and applause] thank you very much. When battalion chief anita proudly was speaking, she was speaking about our retired firefighter named jury shannon. Many of you have probably seen him in the newspaper of late. He saved a woman named shara, here in the marina and thankfully he has showed up today and welcome. We all look up to you. [applause] thanks. Do you want to say a couple of words . Yes. Im flattered by all of what has gone on since the earthquake and immediately after. I want to take this chance to talk about something that i beg these reporters to pass on, and they would promise me they would and it never happened. I didnt do this rescue. The Fire Department did this rescue and the people out there in the rescue squads, i was a mediocre fireman. These guys were trained way above my pay grade. And what they do on a daily basis, we are in insurance policy for the citizens of San Francisco. It is no big thing when you wreck your car and the Insurance Company comes and takes care of it, but when the fire Part Department does it, for some reason, the bonds that we had since 1900 and sex with the citizens of San Francisco, they feel about us as we feel about them. It is not just a job, and the dedication you realize, 264 guys, people, drove back into the city immediately after the earthquake. They werent on duty and they werent getting paid. What other department in San Francisco can say that . These guys came in, left their families, didnt know what they were going into, would you never do when you respond to an incident. They came back into the city and they worked for 72 hours and they didnt get any accolades, they didnt get any newspaper print. They did it because of the love of the city and the love of the job. I was so proud when they pinned that badge on me in 1970. I wanted to honor it and do something to think that i deserved it. I still, when i see these rubber rings, i still get that same feeling in my heart. Thank you. [applause] thank you. As you can see, the fireboat display to your right. [cheering] that is not the phoenix, that is the other one, right . That is the st. Francis. Named for our great city. I want to ask chief nicholson and chiefs got to join me up on the stage. Supervisor stefani. Are you going to ring the bell . Yeah, we are. A few more minutes. Come on up. Come on up. [applause] you have three minutes. [laughter] just say a few words about the system you invented. It is an honor to be here today and 30 years. Its hard to believe it goes by so fast. I wanted to echo what you said about the Fire Department. And wanted to point out that what happened in 89 we understand the risk of the Fire Department and the support on the developments that we get. We had mayor dianne feinstein. And had a meeting with her and explained to her what the risks were and the equipment that we needed for the portable water system. Mayor feinstein totally understood. It was a classic meeting. We went in, we were told we had 20 minutes, three hours later, we left her office. We had a 50 billiondollar bond issue and a special appropriation for the water system and they were just going to work. We did that and i just want to point out to the dedication of the firemen, that is amazing. It is hard work. We developed the portable possible the portable water system and worked with the fireboat. A lot of training. 189 came, we were ready. We had a plan. I like to point out to you what happens in an earthquake like what happened in 189. We lost all the power in city in the city for three full days. The earthquake hit. It messed all over the city. Just in the marina alone we had 127 water main breaks. We lost all water in the marina. Fire breaks out and we say that when all hell breaks loose, nobody else knows what to do so they call the Fire Department. But an earthquake is the extreme example of that. We have to perform. And what happened, all the water is gone, and only because Goodyear Blimp was in town because of the world series. The Fire Department only knew they had a fire because of several fire alarms. The chief down there was a hairy he had had a drill with the portable water system one week before. He knew exactly what to do. Call the fireboat and the portable water system, and they got there 40 minutes later. We had to this wind today that we had then. We would have stopped the fire. This is an example of what would happen. In that day, there was no wind. It was a good fortune for all of us. A lot of hard work. They knocked the fire down and training, having equipment available, having the mayor and everyone behind the Fire Department, it all came together that day. I can tell you it was a proud day for the front San Francisco Fire Department and also for the people who came in and the offduty guys and it all worked out good. For all of us that were there that day, they were proud of what happened. We did the best we could under the circumstances and it all worked out. Here we are today. Thank you very much. Thank you. Right on time. [applause] again, we want to thank each and everyone of you for joining us here today to commemorate the 30 Year Anniversary of the earthquake. We honor the men and women of the San Francisco police and Fire Department that have put their lives on the line year after year in this city to keep us all safe. Today, as a reminder of our need to do everything we can to build a more resilient city. We have a fair that is supported by district two supervisor Catherine Stefani where you can learn more about the organization and you can learn more about ways to build the organization so we can continue to look out for one another, take care of one another, and make sure that when the next one happens, we are all prepared to be safe and to be secure and to continue to have a strong, more resilient city for future generations to come. Thank you all so much for joining us here today. [applause] last but not least, we have a special treat. An incredible, incredible, incredible opera singer. [applause] [singing] [singing] [singing] [cheers and applause] hi today we have a special edition of building San Francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about San Franciscos earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. The next episode of stay safe, we have Alicia Johnson from San Franciscos department of Emergency Management. Hi, alicia thanks to coming it is a pleasure to be here with you. I wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in San Francisco. Well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. Having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. How long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in San Francisco. It depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. What kind of neighborhood and Community Involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. It is important to have a Good Relationship with your neighbors and your community. Go to those Community Events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. It is important to have a batteryoperated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the Community Around and how you can communicate with other people. One of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. Yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. So a title to a home, a passport, a drivers license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any Vital Information on your computer. Back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. In your home you should be prepared as well. Absolutely. Lets take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. We have no water, what are we going to do about water . It is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis, both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. We have this big container and also in peoples homes they have a hot water heater. Absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well what other things do people need to have arent their home. It is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. Here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. And this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. Yes. So in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. Having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be working right away. It is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. And here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. I hope that you have an alternative one at home. Oh, i forgot. And in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. I have them right here. Good. Excellent. That is great. Additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. Markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. I am okay and i will meet you at. Exactly. Exactly. Water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. We have matches here. And my spare glasses. And your spare glasses. If you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. If it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. Inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. Very important. We have a little first aid kit. And lots of different kinds of batteries. And another spare flashlight. So, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we dont have damage . One of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. Make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. Also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. Becoming prepared is not that difficult. Taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra everyday items on hand helps to make the difference. That contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. Absolutely. If you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. We are all proud of living in San Francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. So, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. Absolutely, it is my pleasure. And thank you for joining us on another edition of building everyone please, stop talking [laughter] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [laughter] it wouldnt have been that long. [laughter] if we could take a seat. Good morning, rosa parks. Good morning. Lets get our peace signs up. Great job, everyone. Take a seat and lets get our peace signs up, please. Thank you. Switched over to our quiet coyotes. Great job. All right. We have a lot of guests today so we will show off our wonderful, thunderous thursday waterfall. Wow. What a great job, rosa parks. Thank you so much. That was an awesome drill. I really appreciate all the cooperation. Everyone was safe, kind, respectful, and responsible as they did the drill and exit the building. I want to thank everybody for that. This is a special day today. This is our 30th anniversary at the last big earthquake in the bay area. Just to let the younger people here know, i was a freshman in college. Thinking about this, watching my San Francisco giants World Series Game about to start at home when this earthquake happened 30 years ago. Now fast forward, we are having this drill. It is the 11th year of the great shakeout and you were all part of it today where we have many guests. First up, i will introduce dr. Vincent matthews, our superintendent for San Francisco Unified School District school district. Thank you. [applause] good morning, boys and girls. I just want to tell you how proud i am of you today. You did exactly what you were supposed to do during an earthquake. You dropped, you covered, you made sure your head was covered, and then when you heard the all clear sign, you came out here. That is exactly what you are supposed to do. We want to make sure you are safe during an earthquake and one more thing we want you to do is make sure you are telling your parents to be prepared, so make sure they have all the things you need. Food, batteries, flashlights, firstaid kit, water, you want to have all those things and a plan. Make sure you are telling your parents that. Im very proud of you today. I want you to we will do a quick cheer. I will spell good job because you did such a good job. So i will say good job, and then you say good job, good job. Good job. Good job, good job. Good job. Good job, good job. You did an excellent job today. Im so proud of you. Give yourselves a big round of applause. [applause] we have many people here who are charged with keeping you safe. We have the chief of emergency services, we have our police chief, we have our share of here , we have our fire chief here, and we have the woman who every night, all she does she cant sleep because shes thinking about how to make your lives better. That is our wonderful mayor, and i would like to introduce to you , and you will give her big round of applause, our mayor, mayor london breed. [cheers and applause] good morning, everybody. Good morning, rosa parks. First of all, i want to thank miss therese and her class for hosting us this morning. We had a wonderful time, and some of you might know that i actually went to rosa parks elementary school. So when i was your age, i was here, and this is where i first learned about what to do if there is an earthquake or any other event. My teachers at the time taught us to drop, cover, and now it is hold on, but it was drop and cover back then, but the point is to still keep you all safe. I am excited to be here today to celebrate what we know is 30 years of the earthquake. I know all of you werent born back then, but i was, and i was a freshman in high school. And i remember that time and the lessons i learned when i was that Rosa Park Elementary School as a teenager, i applied those same lessons and they did not disappoint. We know that its not a matter of if an earthquake is going to happen in San Francisco, it is a matter of one. And so you all are the ambassadors to make sure that your families know what to do. So what do we do . Number one . Number two . Number three . You guys are the ambassadors. Good job, good job. Ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce the department that keeps you all save, our new fire chief janine nicholson. [cheers and applause] good morning, rosa parks. Can we do that a little louder . Good morning you all are awesome. I dont want to brag, but my table in your classroom, we rocked it. Everything that mayor breed said is correct and we want you all to be prepared so that we dont have to come and help you. Of course, we will if we have to , but we want you all to be prepared and bring this message home to your families so you all can take care of yourselves. Just like today when we did this in a team, and you always have a buddy at school, the Fire Department, we always do everything in a team. Make sure you are taking care of your neighbor and your friends, and we will be there to take care of you as well. I would like to introduce the head of our department of Emergency Management who oversees all of the city and taking care of all of you folks, marianne carol. [applause] good morning, rosa parks. Good morning i am so impressed about how much you all know about earthquakes because my job is all about getting ready for earthquakes and you all know so much. Then i have a secret for you i want to share. I thank you know more than most of the adults around here. So what i want you to do is make sure that when you go home that you talk to your parents and your friends and anybody who is an adult and make sure you teach them what you know about earthquakes. Great job, you guys. One other thing. Do you know the phone number that you are supposed to call if you have [indiscernible] you guys are too smart. 911. 911 is the number you call if you need a Police Officer or a firefighter. So im really glad that you know that and make sure that if you ever are in an emergency, you can call that, and the people who work for me are the ones who answer that number and they will be here. Thank you so much for having us. You did a great job. Share all of your great knowledge that is in your head, and now i will introduce someone to you who is very important, and he is our chief of police. His name is bill scott. Lets welcome chief scott. [cheers and applause] good morning. We will have a little fun. I will be really, really quick, but i want you all to teach the whole city of San Francisco what you did this morning. We want the whole city to hear us. We have to be really, really loud, okay . Okay all right. Lets try that again. We have to be really, really loud, okay . Okay okay. On three, we are going to tell the whole city how to handle an earthquake. That is to drop, cover, and hold on. On three, we want the whole city to hear us. Are you ready . Yes ready, one, two, three. Stop, drop, hold on i think the whole city heard us. Thank you, guys. Thank you very much. Now i want to introduce another one of our Public Safety partners. Our sheriff, vicky hennessy. All right, you guys. Everyone said to say good morning and i want you to say good morning to me the lattice of anybody here. Can we do that . Good morning. Good morning that was great. Thank you so much. I just wanted to do a shout out to the kindergarten class. I had been at my table, i had willow at my table, and i had jesse at my table. They were so quick getting under my table and dropping, covering, and holding on that i just had to give a shout a shout out. They are in kindergarten so i cant imagine how the rest in the school did. Im sure you did wonderfully. Once again, thank you for letting us come today and talk to you, and thank you for the work youre doing to keep yourselves safe and your families safe by telling your parents today what happened. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Lets give one last big rosa parks hand for all of our guests today. [applause] i think we will end with one more last good job, good job. Lets hear it. Dr. Matthews has to do it. Are you ready . Good job. Good job, good job good job. Good job, good job [cheering] thank you, rosa parks. You are dismissed. Kindersley first and then first grade. Kindersley first and then first grade. Kindergarten first and then first grade. You. Well to the epic center are you ready for the next earthquake did you know if youre a renter you can get earthquake shushes well take to the earthquake authorities hi welcome to another episode im the chief resilience officer for San Francisco im joined by my good friends for the Earthquake Authority were at the el cap center for the city and county of San Francisco started in 2013 to get the community and talk about the risk we think about earthquake if usual great city youll see one of the demonstrates weve built the model home and i encourage other episodes well be retroactively retrofitting and showing you as Property Owners to employ you work for the california Earthquake Authority talk about your role and earthquake shirnls up think the viewers want to know if youre a renter or Property Owner how the insurance issues. Im the chief mitigation officer or c e a a Property Line funded pubically managed entity that provides earthquake shiners for one to four units and mobile owners to come down and renters throughout the state of california. What make the c e a deft. We work with 19 participates the insurer that sells you, your homeowner policy youre not obligated to buy it but you can buy a policy. Am i covered with Homeowners Insurance. No California Homeowners understand their Homeowners Insurance doesnt cover earthquake they need a separate policy if youre an shiners you can get the earthquake insurance policy. So explain why it is for the c e a is deft if a traditional insurance agency. Irreverent so in the 80s the state of california passed a law that requires any company that writes the policies to over earthquake insurance the homeowners are not required by commissioner cranshaw can bye there was so much loss they were going to stop writing the insurance policies for earthquakes they wanted to stop a serious insurance policy. Were talking about the homeownerships buying the earthquake shiners but 70 percent are renters whats my opposite. The option for renter the earthquake be Insurance Company is affordable i think people dont realize just exactly what it covers it covers damaged property but loss of use if you have to be under a building they have a quarter main that was broken as well as Emergency Repair if interests glass breaks in the carpet you need to be in our unit thats whether earthquake is important. Youre title youre the excessive mitigation officer for the state of california when i think of insurance i dont think about mitigation. So as part of Public Safety mission the c e a started to put aside mitigation loss fund 5 percent of invested income and when i joined the company 34 years ago we had 45 million to make a difference for moving and incentivizing and mitigation for California Homeowners to structure engineering a unique opportunity to cervical homeowners to help them to mitigate the equivalent. Whether an owner or renter i want to find more information about earthquake insurance where should i go. Earthquake authority. Com not only information about insurance but a calculated figures and as of january lots of deductible and 25 percent if a homeowner mitigate their hope up to 20 percent off their premium as an incentive for the work. What does mitigate the home mean. Strengthen, renovate, retrofit through a home particularly older to earlier codes and you put in adding streamlining maybe collar bolts to tie to the foundation or to the wall so it is braced to earthquake can be very, very affordable and really makes a difference. Thank you very much for being with us i encourage the viewers not only to checkout the Earthquake Authority but well talk about my name tom hewitt. First of all, i would like to welcome everyone to come to this fair. This safety fair, we trying to educate the public regarding how to prepare themselves during and after the earthquake and then to protect themselves for next 72 hours. Hi. My names ed sweeney. Im the director of services at department of building inspection, and we put together a great fair for the city of San Francisco to come down and meet all the experts. Weve got engineers, architects. We have builders, we have government agencies. Well, we have four specific workshops. We have the accessible business entrance. My name is leah, and i am the assistant manager with the department of small business. I am leading the new accessibility ordinance that helps existing owners better comply with existing access laws. So all buildings that have places of public accommodation in San Francisco, they must comply with this ordinance. The a. D. E. Was setup by the board of supervisors, and the ordinance was passed about a year ago. One of the biggest updates that we have is that the deadlines were extended, so all of the deadlines were extended by six months. And its really to help the public, the Business Community to be specific, to cut down on the amount of drive by lawsuits. So on this workshop, were going to be covering what the compliance looks like, what business examiand property owne need to know how to comply with the ordinance. Well also talk about the departments that are involved, including the office of small business, department of building inspection, planning department, as well as the Mayors Office on disability. Hi. Im marselle, and i manage a team at the building department. Today, well cover the meaning of a. D. U. S, more commonly known as accessory dwelling units. Well talk about the code and permitting processes, and well also talk about legalizing existing dwelling units that are currently unwarranted. This is the department of Building Inspections residential remodelling workshop. My name is senior electrical inspector cheryl rose, and at this workshop, were going to be answering questions such as do i need an electrical permit when im upgrading my dwelling, when do i need to have planning involved in a residential remodel, and whats involved with the coerce process . Were going to also be reviewing inspection process, and the permitting process for residential remodel in San Francisco. Theres always questions that need answers. Its a mystery to the general public what goes on in construction, and the more we can clarify the process, the more involved the consumer can be and feel comfortable with the contractors theyre working with and the product theyre getting in the results. If you have questions that arent addressed in this workshop, youre always welcome to come up to the third floor of 1660 mission street, and were happy to discuss it with you and find out what you need to do. The program is very successful. The last piece is already 60 in compliance. Well, we have a very important day coming up. Its sept 15. Last four has to be compliance, which means that the level four people that have to register with us and give us a basic indication of how theyre going to deal with their seismic issues on their building. Im francis zamora, and im with the San Francisco department of Emergency Management, and today we talked about how to prepare for emergencies in San Francisco. And so thats really importantiimportant. In San Francisco, its no secret. We live in earthquake country. Theres a big chance we will be involved in a major earthquake in the next 30 years, but we dont have to be afraid. These are going to be your First Responders outside of the Police Officers, paramedics, First Responders, these are going to be the people that come to your aid first. By getting to know your neighbors, youre going to know who needs help and who can help in case of an emergency. One of the great ways to do that is for signing7for nert, San Francisco neighborhood Emergency Response team. It teaches you how to take care of yourself, your loved ones, and your neighborhood in the case of an emergency. Information is just as important as water and food in an emergency. San francisco has an emergency text message alert system, called text sf. If theres some kind of an emergency happening in San Francisco or your neighborhood, it could be a police action, a big fire, a tsunami or an earthquake. All you have to do is text your citizenship code to 888777, and your mobile phone is automatically registered for alert sf. My name is fernando juarez, and im a fire captain with the San Francisco Fire Department. We have a hire extinguisher training system. You want to pull the pin, stand at least 8 feet away, aim it at the base. If youre too close, the conical laser that comes out, its too small, and the fire wont go out on the screen. If you step back, the conical shape on the screen is bigger, and it will take the fire go out faster. So it can tell when youre too close. My name is alicia wu, and im the director of a San Francisco based nonprofit. Since 2015, we go out to the public, to the community and provide training in different topics. Today were doing c. P. R. , controlling external feeding and how to do Perfect Communications in each topic, and also, i hope that they can bring it home and start gathering all the supplies for themselves to. On any given day in San Francisco, were very well resourced in terms of Public Safety professionals, but we all know in the event of a large scale disaster, it will be hours and days before the Public Safety professionals can get to you, so we encourage people to have that plan in place, be proactive. Theres websites. We have a wonderful website called 72hours. Org. It tells you how to prepare yourself, your family, your pets, your home, your workplace. We cant emphasize enough how important it is to be