Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Rules Committee 52616 20160609

San francisco regular meeting Fire Commission wednesday, june 8, 2016, and the time is 9 oclock item one roll call commissioner president Francee Covington commissioner Vice President Ken Cleaveland sxhooukz commissioner Michael Hardeman chief of the department chief joanne hayeswhite here good morning and item two general Public Comment members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, to the commission as a whole and not to individuals. Whole and not to individuals. Constitute an agreement of support for statements during Public Comment. Thank you, madam secretary any members of the public who would recycle to speak at this time okay. Item 3 proposed legislation from the board of supervisors Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee File number ordinance amending the fire code and housing code with at tenant of a smoke alarm and require the building owners to file with the testing and inspection requirements every two years and amending the fire code and other codes to upgrade did fire systems by 2021 and upon completion of 50 thousand of work whichever occurs for the buildings to submit an action plan within thirty days of the fire and the owners or groups occupancy to install fire blocks in at t ice cream when having 50 thousands of construction work under the California Health and safety code and directing the clerk of the board of supervisors to forward this to the california Standards Commission upon passage as required by subtly. Thank you, madam secretary excuse me supervisor campos is not coming this morning and sent and representative thats correct. Please introduce yourselves. Thank you for having me. Im carolyn im the legislative aide to to supervisor campos and unfortunately hes at metropolitan commission this morning and thank you for hearing this legislation as many of you may know over the past few years fires have greatly xaktd the districts it integrity 9 and the mission area as you saw the fiction meeting theres been a lot of impact when it comes to the displacement as a result of the fires and the deaths as a result of the fires so what we decided to do together with supervisor kim and 2015 was to create a Fire Task Force to really bring together the best minds in the agency to colonel together to put forward recommendations for legislation that Fire Task Force was chaired by rewrite mary of dbi and dan played a Critical Role and the Fire Department dbi Health Department and hearing if tenants and landlord they came together with a recommendation and that those recommendations resulted in the legislation before you today and so we feel that very good is through a consensus and the purpose to make sure that we are as quick as possible moving forward those pieces of legislation that can be moved forward forward quickly and holding other areas for discussion continue to have those discussions moving forward this piece of legislation brings out key components that are all part of Fire Task Force discussion so i wanted to briefly i believe youve seen the bulletin points ill go over them quickly building owners to provide a nose for slammer in spanish and chinese and english, and, secondly, did residential building owners that have a fire alarm they fire a statement of compliance with the annual inspection and testing and the former it posted this enables the tenants to see the landowner are up to date with the safety requirement and third it requires the building owners to renovate, upgrade existing fire alarm and again, this is for those who have a fire alarm to comply with the sleeping area requirement and gave them time to do this when we submit a permit for 50,000 or more or by july 2021 that gives them 5 years to come up to speed and requires that Apartment Building orientals have an update action plan when there is a fire and to insure the city and the tenants have the information when a fire has taken care of with adapt and finally requires the owners to a residential building of 50 o 60 residents to install the fire installation and open at t ice cream when they pull a permit of 50,000 or more those are the essential components of the legislation were excited that we again have the support of fire chief chief joanne hayeswhite and her staff has been helpful as well as the other departments and dbi and came together to a lot of collaboration and hope you will ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. And thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment at this time . All right. Public comment is closed. And go to any fellow commissioners beginning with commissioner Vice President cleaveland thank you very much carolina couple of questions thank you very much for being here representing supervisor campos one of the things i was looking at you were focusing on residential; right . Residential buildings i mean, thats the whole problem with the fires in residential building not commercial; correct . Some mixed use with the first floor. Those requirements apply to Property Owners of residential buildings what portions the residential building that are residential; correct . Okay want to make sure you clarify that you know as the top of the ordinance you say you require the building owners to require tenants should be residential tenants not retail tenants residential so our focus on residential tenants and their safety so i think that is important to scrub that clearly making sure it only applies to residential tenants and our occupancy properties or mixed use with residential. Okay. So thats an important clarification that needs to be made. As you may know we have a conversation in our office regarding the costs we say commissioners would ever say unless you want to jeopardize safety with costs we want to make sure the costs by enforcing this on the residential Property Owners in the city is going to be covered somehow by our budget it will be supplemented with additional monies or find monies with dbi thats my only concern the cost of the departmental occurred ramping up the series of inspection requirements and documentation of fire alarms and, etc. Etc. They cost money uhhuh. Want to make sure our department has resources to do the job right thats it. Thank you commissioner Vice President cleaveland. Commissioner nakajo please. Thank you madam president thank you for your presentation this morning. I had a question and a comment most of my comment that commissioner Vice President cleaveland made in terms of making sure this legislation enforcement and we had a really good presentation and discussion at the last Commission Meeting and again with the support of commission and the department reinforce the finding with our efforts to supervisor campos office to the first time historical meeting in the mission here talks about existing fire alarms system by my emphasis july 1st, you said july 21st so i was trying to look for a clarification on that. So i was referring to the deadline to upgrade the films by 2021 so the requirements to renovate, upgrade is july 2021 or a building pulled another 50,000 or more. Your reference is not jill 21st your reference was 2021 correct. Any other comment is basically associated in the presentation we had at the last Commission Meeting it was talked about in terms of causeandeffect with the association does and we supported in xhaushlz but it came down to what will it take as a department to reinforce do the work this legislation will produce and that became a very important discussion my myself it is good there is legislation but no realty check in terms of who will had had work what will it cost us we in our department have to have it yearly terms of the supplementals i wanted to make sure that we are clear that somehow this has to be reinforced in the budget thats my main and i do believe i dont know if chief joanne hayeswhite i know that mark corso is here and part of those discussions about shared responsibilities with dbi would like to comment. Correct were continuing to we agree and i think the legislation is good but it will burden us with additional tasks and so we want to make sure just like our saying we have adequately resources and were working collaboratively and in conjunction that the department of building inspection i believe commissioner president covington was provided with some numbers of with we thought we needed by the fire marshall de cossio and mr. Corso you can review that im happy to report we reached an agreement with the department of building inspection so 1 point one Million Dollars in the next over the course of the next year for a total of 2. 2 to outreach for the community and in the investor and inspector as well as additional staff including those that are working to collect and track all the data. So thank you very much for that and may continue with that thank you very much chief for that information at the last meeting part of that presentation and discussion was asking a fire marshall de cossio to identify personnel of what we might need to do that i believe that mr. Corso provided for us a budget summary nevertheless what the kochts are would reflect that information chief joanne hayeswhite part of solution in terms of the some of the costs. I believe so, yeah. Thank you mr. Corso you want to comment and reinforce the question that i have in terms of this legislation. Absolutely good morning, commissioners as the chief mexicos were working closely with the Mayors Office and did department of building inspection as we put together our budget ill more details as one of the later items but working with the chief we identified the resources required for the 3 main components as part of legislation some has no additional staff and some i think the original intent of the tracking of the alarm certifications was done by dbi as part of the discussions thats been transferred to fire along with funding to help assist with that theres civilian positions for an analyst and office of the city administrator Additional Inspector positions found through 9 work order with beginning or Additional Inspectors allocated in the department. Thank you mr. Corso youre now the director of finance; is that correct. Yes, sir. At one time funding or will be rolled into an annual biscuit for us. Were working closely with the Mayors Office given the constraint the budget being for two years were funded and as this program ruled out and phased in closer to the 2021 deadline were going to work with dbi and the Mayors Office. Thank you very much i want to get reinforced because from the time of the mission to this protective to the discussion in terms of the budget for the department to this position that were in this morning thats pretty good take with the Fire Department and others depends are involved i want to be clear thank you for your time. Thank you commissioner nakajo pursue commissioner Michael Hardeman. Thank you madam president and thank you for showing up and supervisor campos deserves a lot of credit for this legislation and youre the one your fellow staff that put this altogether we know how that works great things and a lot of the complauz like the fire escape common sense things that is spelled out and Good Building owners if nothing else keeps their mind on somebody coming in to inspect and keep hallways clear a lot of again implications not only policies and procedures but this is our concern im sure the chief and mr. Corso doing their best to cover the financial obligations and appreciate this this was well written. Thank you to supervisor campos very good. Thank you thank you commissioner Michael Hardeman hello, again how are you. Good, good. As a number of people have already mentioned you know this legislation we have no problems with the legislation it is just definitely that the mentally ill have to be earmarked in advance of us being able to you know deliver what it is that supervisor campos, supervisor kim, supervisor yee supervisor tang supervisor president london breed and supervisor wiener would expect from us and the figures are there comes to total of one Million Dollars plus to support the positions that would have to be created and filled in order to be able to do the work that needs to be done and if were getting 1. 1 million per year from the department of building inspection we have a shortfall for me you know when you get that close to 2 million you should call it 2 million that means well have a shortfall of approximately 900,000 that has to be earmarked along with this legislation it seems to me in order for us to be able to process approximately 5 thousand forms annually as well as adding clerical and additional clerical and manage rally support to has there been any discussions about area marking funds. Just to clarify the large portion of budget relates to the 5 year deadline from now that means the requirement upgrades for existing frrmz well have foul discussions in the coming weeks this is a cost not within the immediate yearly costs the estimate as mr. Corso noted the impact comes around the completion date of 2021 this in terms of when there be a lot of applications related to the requirements to renovate, upgrade existing fire alarms well be siftd with Fire Department and gi but the way i read it now mr. Corso maybe wants to comment it sounds like the department figured out a way to funds what is required to implement this law and have discussions to make sure it is fully funded. As part of discussion we need a timeline were fine for the next two years then the Fire Department has been around for one and 50 years and will be for another one hundred and 50 years Going Forward we need to know. Mr. Corso we were allocated 1. 1 million from beginnidbi and from the ma office for a plan floor check the other part currently we anticipate a lot of the the work will be done in the 5 year plan by the nature of when those plans are protdz the on the part the plans are processed fees and revenues associated with those that will supplement our staff beyond the two years for additional personnel and resources to handle that. So in your opinion the annual fees offset the Additional Resources. Yes. In the fire marshall de cossio i cant speak for him but bans from the combination of dbi funding and even though additional Mayors Office funding for the 4 inspector positions that is sufficient to implement this phase one of this program. The phase one two years. Correct the first two years. Thats some relieve fire marshall de cossio would you like to add to this discussion. Good morning as far as the Additional Resources we earmarked those we ran one and 50 percent of the volume last year a spike in the intact of plans thats why we asked for Additional Resources thats accounted for as far as this legislation goes i think there what mark so seven hundred is true well recoup the fees as applications come in you, however, we need to be ahead of that we need training cant hire someone and go to it it it takes time to ramp up to receive thousands of applications so i think to the immediate term in the next two years were fine i think two years down the road we have to start ramping up the staff for the 2021 year. Very good thank you im wondering do you have any additional remarks mr. Corso. Okay thanks any comments from my fellow commissioners i know were going to be gopher the budget a little bit later than so ill hold off until that time maam, any last words. Thank you all for hearing this and thank you, again, for holding the Fire Commission in the commission. Thank you more and more reign for youre planning and the community appreciated that thank you. Thank you it was our pleasure to be there next item, please. Oh, excuse me commissioner nakajo. Madam president may i get a point of clarification that was agendas decided it says discussion and possible action are you is theyre going to be action on this today. I dont hear a motion i have to respond to a request for comment on the part of legislative branch the government so based on our discussion well support the legislation we want to make sure that the monies are there so that things can be implemented as planned. Okay. But i will be entertain a motion at this time if you want to present one. I want to render a question first to the chief and supervisor campos office is there a you want action on improved motion this morning. Youre welcome the Fire Commission support absolutely. With the concerns that were raised this morning budgetaryly and otherwise my only additional comment chief the fire marshalls comment for preparing as things in the department and as important as ever there are no dollar to the department i want to make sure we are ready to handle we all know the city is growing and came out of concerns of fires in the mission that has all kinds of other ramifications we the department are responsible for the fire for preservation and frrmz so i want to make sure were doing our part and also done different collaboration within the city where funding was not there adequately so again been in this federation Fire Commission for a pet thats a concern with the uniformed members are doing there used to be information clerical were talking about trying to take responsibility so i want to make sure that we have that in mind madam president id like to motion a motion to approve this item. All right. Then be more specific in add in the ordinance as well as the financing. Well, i think the discussion staff are part of that if you want me to verbalize take into consideration that discussion in terms of Adequate Funding and personnel and Fire Department perspective ill lean towards any colleague. Ill also madam president like to make sure that the amendments here to the fire code pertain to the residential occupancies and not anything other than that. A point of clarification go back and come back or emergency and timeline or is this good enough to move on to. Thats help e helpful it is mindful in cleaver up the clarification ill be happy to side that in theres a motion on the floor. All in favor, say i. I. Thank you all very much thank you. Thank you. Thank you, again all right. Next item. Item 4 acknowledgment of appreciation and presentation of award from the state of california in recognition of nert program. Thank you, madam secretary i see we have some representatives here from nert and were going to hear first from our chief the department. Thank you good morning. Commissioner president covington and commissioners before inviting the representatives up from lieutenant and others from the executive board and sally hear as well i want to talk about the award well officially present on behalf of the government we this deputy chief williams attend the state of california 2015 governors volunteering and sifrgs award above and beyond the call of duty in the volunteer ism and happy to report the San Francisco Emergency Response Team Commissioner president covington you or are nert the disaster got the program of the year award honors outstanding volunteers that demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the local community a quote from the californias governor governor jerry brown the men and women radio california heros theyre an inspiration at the ceremony karen baker presented the honors to the honorees in the State Capitol in sacramento and quoted we recognitions the amazing men and women dedicated to volunteerism and service our community i will agree our communities are more resilient to those folks that have their acts of service and existed to penalty those award we got the award and wanted to let you join in on the great work by the nerts program and the many volunteers id like to now sit down from up here and ask youll have those associated with the nert program to come forward ill present you with the award. Thank you chief joanne hayeswhite. Thank you for the special preservation and the Governors Office but most importantly thank you to our volunteers our assignment this year, the that led to this award was years and years of volunteer service prep to respond in a disaster environment and the it was lake county that got but recognized with the support that the volunteers were providing for the residents returning the Human Element really to be focused on the support of residents returning to a disaster area is very important were training and training for a disaster here and i want us to be mindful that when the disaster is here were the residents returning well be supporting each other to our volunteers thank you for the effort youve done so far and prepare prepare prepare that is what the going to have us survive the best we possibly, and thank you for the recognition. Thank you lieutenant will anyone else be speaking no lieutenant please come back to the microphone. Thank you introduce yourself. Talk about nert. Thank you, commissioner im lieutenant and im the Program Corridor for nert neighborhood Emergency Response team wear a Training Program to help san franciscans and anyone that works in the city prepare for a largescale emergency and along the way the training gives people the confidence if theyre in a smaller emergency if theyre responding to a house fire or in a car accident the skill Traffic Signals to the day to day and in fact, agree phone call from a woman that lit the garbage cans on fire and her phone call i knew want to do at 3 oclock in the morning it allows people to respond and no cost to the planter and have 25 full sessions year around and youll find on the website sfgovtv. Org slash sf nert and our firefighters are the instructors and engaging and fun and encourage anyone that lives in San Francisco take the training. Thank you for that update having gone to the nerts owe salute you and now is the time for the applause. clapping. thank you, commissioner absolutely today, i have advisors chair gary and secretary max minute and shelly is a legislator longterm volunteer and others with us today. Applause. Hold open open up for Public Comment and commissioners. Thank you very much. Uhhuh. Members of the public that wants to comment on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And ill go to my fellow commissioners beginning with commissioner nakajo. Thank you very much madam president and all of you nert members this morning. I truly wanted to express our appreciation and how proud we are within our how many years have you been the corridor of our coordinator of nert. For 11 or so years a 10 year parties thats how i know. 12 years. Is 12 years is part of continuity and again, i truly appreciate your hard work couldnt work separately youre a team and youre one of San Franciscos finest team i ask whether the city has this kind of model i stopped asking asking we have our model im a san franciscan in 89 and interesting you dont forget that terror only a tremor to remind you in japan in south america devastation i like your presentation being ready ready ready and in terms of your seriousness of the subject matter but not 20 to scare anyone or myself or myself the ability that it will happen here in San Francisco we need to be ready is a very, very serious issue and makes me feel good that i know you have members of your nert squad and your nert and being a nonprofit to do everything or everything please. Thank you commissioner Vice President cleaveland. It is truly awning honor to have you guys here this morning i think that out of the 1989 quarter this is the best thing engaging the private citizens how to prepare for the next emergency whether big or small so volunteers all of you ousted there to be congratulated for providing our time personal time to learn how to engage and help our fellow citizens in the event of an emergency wonderful Remarkable Program worthy of the governors recognition my personal congratulate you all. Thank you commission and commissioner Vice President cleaveland and commissioner Michael Hardeman. Congratulations to everyone the surprising thing how nice the board looked and the governor is known for being infrastructure frugal im sure no crystal involved in that he watches our money very good so congratulations and then was not mentioned he know the chief mentioned in the past local 798 and the chief worked together to make sure that in the matter continued when a question was so everyone deserves a pat on the back thank you thank you for all your hard work and it look a lot of time to be involved in that one project thank you. Thank you commissioner Michael Hardeman and thank you lieutenant for you know your enthusiasm and knowledge and you know all of the good work you and our volunteer board do it is an Amendment Program and i encourage everyone to you know go to the website and to join nert and to be trained and you get a nice vest and hard hat okay. A big book of what to do when and where and it is the best way that you can help yourself and our family and Greater Community and city so i really applaud your award and agree with commissioner Michael Hardeman it is very attractive can you hold it up so we can get a good look at it were peaking over the desk. Wonderful it is beautiful. It is, it is thank you, thank you again, all of you very much madam secretary. clapping. item 5 approve the minutes from regular meeting on may 11, 2016. Thank you are there any members of the public that would like to comment on the minutes as submitted . All right. Public comment is closed. Fellow commissioners so moved madam chair. Moved by commissioner Michael Hardeman and commissioner Vice President cleaveland. All in favor, say i. I. Next item. Item 6 overall on airport consensus and overview from assistant deputy chief rudy on the current developments of Airport Division. Okay morning madam president. Morning. Commissioners and chief joanne hayeswhite and director chief gonzalez. An update and new things that are take place we operate and so ill get organized here. Commissioners you do have in our packets the San Francisco Fire Department division. Handout that has a lot of good information and i do believe their duplicate indicates of the slide that the depth will be sharing with us today. While were waiting think of future agenda items in advance of item 10 were going to be discussing that. All right. Go to the computer. Technical people in the house here. Hello thank you. Their sending somebody up i understand a technician is on the way. The San Francisco International Airport this is an illustration what it looked like it was called the field airport and we, of course, know we have evolved as San Francisco is one of the most beautiful and progressive and Busiest Airport in the world. As far as firefighter the San Francisco sublet airport is recognized as an ishgsdz or indexes e it categories indexes in the San Francisco Fire Department is an indexed it is the size of planes and the number of deparches that take off that are airport that are 200 feet and take off 5 times a day San Francisco the arch bus that p holds nine hundred volunteering passersby and the 770 and the organization 380 thirty with the large aircraft leaving on a daily basis this will dictate the firefighter equipment i apologize for the technical difficulties here commissioners and thats all right. The f e a utilizes the index to dictate the type of equipment and. Rightone us to have 3 large stricter vehicles the bread and butter vehicles used throughout the three of those that have triple f fathom and called a clean agent together our requirement to be able to produce at least 6 thousand gallons of water combination of those 3 vehicles together we have 4 of those vehicles that produce 45 hundred gladdens of water were over the limit perspired by the fda with the 3 sticker vehicles we have 4 of them and two engines structured type of engines that have one thousand gallons of water two actually, one under aerial platform and another delivered in 6 months on top of we delivered to the airport two mc medical type of units that care for up to two hundred and 50 patients per apparatus that enables to us to deal with a largescale event in the operating area with theyve over three or four hundred people injured overseeing apparatus allows us the medical equipment to attend to their needs a little bit more about San Francisco International Airport the second Busiest Airport in San Francisco behind lax and the 24 busiest in the world and many passersby well exceed that in 2015 as well as far exceeded in 2016 there are 3 domestic and an International Terminal lastly the communication and beauty of the airport a detail going to this to make the travel experience for those passengers underlying in and out of the airport on top of the responsibility that our firefighters have to be prepared for in terms of of aircraft theres 20 thousand employees that work at the airport not only prepared for aircraft incidents but structural fires throughout the airport that is a little city within itself and a tremendous amount of training to deal with both situations the air Traffic Controller has run ways two east and west due to the large aircraft that fly if two left runways over 10 thousand feet the room to slow down and the other two runways under 8 thousand feet staffing at the air Traffic Controller we have one deputy chief working days and training days then a battalion chief as many of you may know that is included into the mixed at the airport recently that gives us the ability to stretch our command structure at a large incident a rescue captain work there twentyfour hours a day and makes a difference in our work to complete the jobs incidents and 3 lieutenants and 16 firefighters and 3 medics working twentyfour hours 7 days a week on scene that is our bread and butter this apparatus outside of this truck in the city that is the cool itself thing those apparatus are extremely high tech 4 wheel drive and 45 hundred gallons of water and fathom 4 hundred and 60 pounds that is a clean agent we utilities on the Electrical Systems inside the plane a high reach chart as you can see at the top of apparatus a peering nozzle to penetrate the side and make entry and has a forwardlooking infrastructure red camera we can have fog or the fact that night time it is completely difference and to see hot 1309s if from their internal camera on the inside this vehicle as a daily use system in case of large fuel and breakdown that and cool it with water and has sprinklers on top of the cab it can be extremely hot so it cools down and engages those sprinkles to cool the cab. Our power point is malfunctioning ill read off any copy i apologize additional firefighters is two structure type of engines for experience at the airport one carries seven hundred and 50 gallons one one thousand gallons rescue 47 is a mr. Chairman truck were getting a second one in 6 months with the aerial trucks it is important it is expanding facility were building all over the airport facility with a Highrise Hotel that will make our equipment for appropriate with the situations a higher level of floors were experiencing that with the buildings that are currently there recently weve acquired new apparatus with a command vehicle command 211 that is similar to the unit in the city and for a largescale that allows us to put our Incident Commander and other personnel inside of the vehicle all kinds of enhancements and cameras to keep the incidents and separates the command from all the distractions and noise inside the hazardous area with at enlistment were getting comfortable with the technology as i mentioned we recently reviewed two mc or causality units as i mentioned some of those planes come in and theyre filled with passengers if we ever get into a situation we have hard landing and im talking about a considerable number of patients those units can deal with up to 5. Passersby with the als medical equipment that will respond to a largescale aint and brand new been on working on the air Traffic Controller at 3 months now the next page our 767 training anxiety their 99. Trying to duplicate the training this is a brand new plane that we received a couple years ago the old one was broke down and used on numerous indications this give us an opportunity to you pull the vehicles and positioning them and getting the vehicles with that type of a largescale plane we have search and rescue inside so all the seats challenges our firefighters to have to get in there particularly at night and it also is a great training device for Law Enforcement the f did i i we have to wait in line to use our equipment but it is a great tool another program before the super bowl was mobile medical bike it is an Outstanding Program our Police Officers have been utilizing bilks and trained medics on the proper use of riding a bicycle those are equipped with als equipment the beauty of this program is there in the terminals during the holidays and during super bowl at the, maneuver from one terminal to the next amazing in a quick fashion and made a tremendous impact on the Response Time the Police Officer in particular love it theyll say have to be on scene and fight through the traffic with that program your ability to get on scene has improved tremendous so it is a Great Program and medic rc is to the commended for putting together this program another feature at the airport that expedites our ability to maintain the tactical imagination a ground system in the past units would have to respond to the admonition o and refill their tanks this construction will be underway roughly in 8 to 6 months and underground hydrants that be located on the charley name it that will not impede 9 runway but to refill their tanks and get back to what they were doing training at the air Traffic Controller again is kwieblth different we do thought city. Current firefighters gone through a 48 hours curriculum in terms of training with all of the members anyone that come down to and new to the Airport Division will go through the 40 hours curriculum and putting together a curriculum with our counterparts in the dallas forgot worthy and training the chiefs in the city little battalion chiefs and an intense command structure type of Training Program we plan think sending them down in august theyll be prepare for the next largescale incidents being able to train them helps us to plug in our chiefs and taking the battalion chiefs as the operation chief and helps give us the ability to utilize our personnel we are including if chief if san mateo for the training as well. Im sure our familiar the city respond to the call boxed we respond to alerts their warning that come from the tower from the pilots to approach to give us a prewarning they might be experiencing some type of technical problem 3 alerts we respond to alert one a mechanical problem that is flashed on the pilot with the cell tower theyll be notified an alert is that progress that initiated us pulling our apparatus and standing by generally those are very, very minor situations alert 2 a little bit more serious in nature part of reports an indicator light showing smoke or polk stuck landing gear units will stage on the dedicated locations at that time the plane lands safely theyll escort the proprieties to the gate alert 3 is different we get an alert 3 this is generally in the hard landing some type of the plane has lost their engines and cant function properly 3r5r7z their elevators when an alert 3 is requested by the tower we automatically request a 303 or one 01 that is a first alarm response and our san mateo counterparts sends 5 trucks and a chief that again age alert 3 a situation where we are going to have some type of hard landing and injuries and damage involved the time i spent one year and a half at the air Traffic Controller ive been there 3 months on this 2 alert 3 they could have been alert two not that i want to make people nerves but several minor things that can motivate the pilot to call ahead next time your underlying ahead look at the yellow apparatus someone