Transcripts For SFGTV Fire 20240706

Item 1 roll call. President nakajo. Vice president morgan. Commissioner feinstein has been excused. Commissioner fraser has been excused. Commissioner collins. Present. President nakajo you have a quorum. Chief of department Jeanine Nicholson. And president nakajo will now read the lan acknowledgment. Thank you very much. Ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement the San Francisco Fire 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 item 2 general Public Comment. Members of the public address the commission am to 3 minutes went commissions jurisdiction this does not appear on the agenda. Speakers address remarks to the commission as a whole approximate in the individual or personnel. Commissioners are not to enter in discussion with a speaker. Lack of a response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not constitute agreement in support of statements made during Public Comment. Anyone this wishes to give comment. Why steped podium if you wish to make Public Comment. Good evening. Fire commission. Im efram i live 4 blocks from here of the corner in the western edition and i thought i would come out to get to know my board and when represents me. And get to know my community. I want to be a part of my community approximate connect. I want to you know be a citizen and contribute what i can. I have been at city hall the whole day different hearings and committees and i have been speaking get nothing front of the microphone and say whatting is on my mind what is on my mind is rescue. Fire rescue is what i need i need to be rescued. And the problems first for most housing. I dont have a place to live. And you have been it is the way it is. I dont know why. 13 years approximate i dont have i place to live i need a rescue and i need to be rescued. I need a fire ladder to come to my apartment and pick me up. And take me where i want to go. You know i dont know. You know most of us it it is hard to join a government body to serve and it is your choice. Im wondering, you know, i dont know, so im trying to figure out. It hen a long time since i had contact this is the accomplice i can come and have contact with society and i am alive and here and well. And waiting for a rescue. Thank you very much. Thank you. Madam secretary, anybody else in Public Comment. Nobody else is propping and nobody on the Public Comment line. Thank you. Public ment is closed. Item 3 approval of the minutes discussion and possible action to aprove minutes from the regular meeting on april 12 of 2023. Madam secretary. Any Public Comment. Anybody like to make comment on the minutes. Nobody is propping the podium and nobody on our Public Comment line. Public comment is closed. Any questions or discussion from commissioners motion to item like to make a motion to approve the minutes from april 12 thank you very much. Vice president morgan. Second, please. Upon i believe you can make a vote off the minutes. If you read them. I could be wrong. As long as you have read them. Okay. Thank you very much, and president nakajo. Aye. The motion is unanimous. Item 4 chief of Department Reporter from Jeanine Nicholson on current issues, activities and events Went Department since the meeting on april 12 of 2023 including personaling acam me. Special events communication and out reach to against everagencies and public and report from tom oconnor on administrative, fleet and status and update. Finance, support service home land security and update from assistant deputy chief Darius Luttropp the project bond manager. Thank you very much. Welcome, chief nicholson. Thank you, president nakajo. Command staff. Chief nicholson this is my report. Of the last 2 weeks since our previous meeting on april 12th. You likely saw in your packet if you read it we have 4 general order this is came out. Surf rescue we are ramping up surf rescue training the water is getting warmer we will see more people in the water. And need more and more people trained. And i have to say that over the last several years our surf rescue program has been incredible. Im proud of the work they are doing. Why you may have seen there was a go for the support Services Assistant deputy chief example that would be because chief ramone will be retiring. And he has work in the this Department Since 1991, i believe. And we are certainly going to miss him. He is in the going yet. But i believe in june we will be losing him and he has been an asset to this department. And to this administration. So. Thank you, ramone. Appreciate it. Chief. Okay. You can clap. [applause] you guys can dot waves up to you. You may have seen other task force 3 in the park advertising for more members. We have several k9 team usa handler and k9s that work with that fema task force. They are looking for more members. And the there is a training captain position as well, we are expecting another retirement at the end of june. We are trying to get a head start on this. You may have noticed new Fire Prevention news letter. Thank you. Great stuff. That was in the packet. And i think that a lot of us until we come downtown dont necessarily understand the importance of Fire Prevention and investigation. This is a really helpful news letter for the entire departmentful it was 911 and dispatch week and the three deputy and i visited the d. Emergency management at 1011 turk to thank the dispatchers and call takers. People dont necessarily think about it but they other first, first responders. And they answer calls and dispatch you know that the big news item of the tech executive there was a woman who had to answer that call and try to get information out of him. And you know trying to figure out where he was. They have a challenging job and i dont think that people necessary low understand that. We showed our appreciation and i think the credit union provide with a meal this day. It was real good. You also may have heard the Good Government awards by spur the planning urban research. And simon our chief of paramedicine was recipient because of his work in Community Paramedicine and making a difference in collaborative ways. Congratulations, strong work out of the 5 everybody else was a team. He was the only doing the same amount of work as a team. Strong work. We had an h3 level 2 graduation. Paramedic graduation on ambulance on the 14th at headquarters there were 9 young people and families that are now out in the field. We victim an h3 level one emt academy in place. That is going through their training now. There was a drill on saturday the 47th on Treasure Island. Rescue chief brandson thom were out there. Carrollton head of dem and myself visit and gave words of encouragement. Im grateful for the folks that volunteer for that we will need them when the big one happens. Because we will not be able to do everything. And big thanks to chief eric for her and her guidance. The next day sunday the 16th the Cherry Blossom approximate raid thanks to president nakajo for being there and the asian Firefighter Association and chief serrano getting the rigs it was a Beautiful Day and had a good turn out. And i got the last teriyaki burger. Was well represented there and a lot of volunteers with them as well. It was a good event. We had a Labor Management meeting last week. We have done our best to maintain a Good Relationship with the union despite challenges that we all face. Open line of communication has been wonderful and many thanks to tom oconnor for that. The real concern this we share at this time is with retirements in john. Misee a big number of retirements. We could see 60, we could see 80 im not sure. But that could put us upon behind the 8 ball hiring as fast as we can we cant hire faster. We can have so many probation easier in the field at once there are so many positions and so, we will see overnight next month, month and a half how many people are going to retire. Fingers crossed it is in the unmanageable. We had i 21 a Street Condition policy Group Meeting you may have seen the govern and attorney general and others touring the city last week with multiple cabinet members. Of governor newsome and the cho of staff for mayor breed. I know tom oconnor stopped by as well. But you know they have asked the Mayors Office to then asked apartments involved in Street Conditions what are our needs and solutions. And those needs could be legislative. Capital, staffing. So we did put this forward to the Mayors Office and hopefully we will get Additional Support within the city and county to tackle the real challenges. We are qualified to understand the needs and the chief helped with that. Thank you. On saturday, we held a boot camp on Treasure Island you should come come time commissioner collins, you would do well. For the prospective members of 132nd academy starts in june. All those that received a letter to take the next step in hiring were invited. 60 of the 68 showed up. And i think it was good insight for us. As about as for them. In terms of the viz physical expectations a 2 mile run of sit ups. Pushups hose drag. 3ing ladders. You could tell who was in shape and who was not. We are going to do another in may. To see where they are all at. Ems and Community Paramedicine had a retreat today. I was able to stop by in Golden Gate Park. Solution oriented retreat. I look forward to hearing what their solutions and ideas are. And i told them there is no more money. So i was a Debbie Downer but you know thats the reality now with our budget. Speaking of budget we had our internal budget meetings and i know that director corso has been settling the all of our ash counts for this year including getting money reallocated in existing budget for over time. It passed at budget and appropriation now the full board next week. It statute money within our budget we are moving to cover our over time. And our own budget is due to the Mayors Office on june first of 2023. And that concludes my report. Thank you very much. At this point is there Public Comment on the chiefs report . I dont see anybody approaching the podium and nobody on the comment line. Public comment is closed. Questions or comments from the commissioners . I will keep it quick. Thank you for your report, chief and imented to object to assistant deputy chief retirement he does in the have enough grill to be retiring. [laughter]. I im jealous. Congratulations. Well miss you for all the great work you have done with Supportive Services and hopefully we will make adjustments. I still object. Going to miss you. Hold comments and questions before we go Administration Deputy chief tom oconnors report and Darius Luttropps report. I dont have anything at this time. Good evening am president nakajo, morgan, collins im tom Oconnor Deputy chief of Administration Report for march of 23 urn home land security with erika brown had a busy month a shalling National Weather Service Briefing on march 13th. We had a seroar weather exercise on march first and home land security and secret service for Vice President s visit on march third. Storm activation Emergency Operations center on march 28. Planned events a st. Patrick day araid on march 7. We have over 900 attendees from 40 states and incident coordination with pd training cam aint for the incidents command system plan. Under Inclusion Division with sean beaufort the pirate the 30 departments at the career fair on april 15th. You see in the departments that were represented at the fair. And much of the month of march interviewing candidates for selection in the 132nd class. Had a swat analysis for the office that is strength, weak think, opportunity and threats. Had a meeting with the educators to plan a summer workshop are. Over shaw the agility test on march 28 and 29. And worked with sfgov. Org 2 more video shooting for womens History Month we have a video that will be shown later as wella as one with mary shale and the High School Sports Medicine Club engine 15 and the lieutenant detail the teach students to manage traumatic injuries. Under health, safety and wellness with matthew al bawe are circling in on cancer champion this is is where we have members in the fire house station stewards for cancer training and prevention and want to have in the only a top down program we teach best practices but bottom up Solutions Oriented ideas to how to protect ourselves in the trae the Cancer Prevention foundation and office of health, safety and wellness and Employee Health and union local 798. Month of march 10 members attend trin nothing monterey paid for by the Firefighter Foundation and former Fire Commissioner. We had a 4 hour presentation on march 14th. And our wellness app responded Wellness Week on march 2731st support [inaudible] raise awareness and self care among Public Safety workers and Behavioral Health moveed old station 21 on oak and through a lunch to welcome themselves and the other members in the building we had a great thai time meeting for the Behavioral Health unit. You will see we made an effort under the new captain to get data show how much the unit is doing. Broken it down contacts by work group. Administration. Retired employees. Hours by work group. Contacts by stress factor and total hours activity. Xu will see on this left pie chart it luxury like a swath of Behavioral Health unit crisis from the administration. We think that was chief Ramone Serrano after his terrible month of merchandise well address with the damage from the storms. Under the neighborhood emergency sponse team, a disaster drill on april 15th the captain talking to the fwroup and selfie from the chief and marian from dem. The next slide the Great Program and the volunteers working on april 15th this was held by chief when she was captain it has grown to Something Special city ouied with the volunteers in emergency when are well trained. Had firefighter out reach and education with the asian firefighters. The Cherry Blossom festival. On the far left. Staffing the booth. As well as the Center Middle photo there. Under the office of Employee Health we had the march 22 academy passed the probation screening. 30 promotional exams. 9 return to duty exam and over 1247 members test for tb and hearing and fruit boxes delivered from the fruit guys from National Nutrition month by Health Service system. Was the no good bad month of march. A 65 increase for calls of service after the storms. 165 were come plea exclude closed. We saw 2 major storms in march brought rain and high winds and as a result 20 of the stations roof leaks, sewer back ups and property damage. You see in the bottom left those other ways the embarcadero and stair station 35 took a beating waves coming up and over and getting in the walls. That was the bruvenlt damage done this month. We see here also under quake safety. Assistant chief. He assisted with the Disaster Survey and the pictures donts capture damage the water came up and in and absorbed in the sheet rock and walls we had damage. Thankful low came and helped our team with repairs. We saw chief luttropp Treasure Island pleasant firefighting water system plan this is our manifolds the fire boat pumps into. The new sufficiency installed and passed all tests. Meetings with the port concerning dredging issues around the manifolds because we found the water got shallow to get the fire boat inform we are trying to get it up to the manifolds. We am saw chief luttropp visit the training site in eldoverado hills. And you see the over head view of the Training Facility and developed a street vacation process the paper street that will be haveicated and moved to have one lot of land. And we had discussions regarding puc access to the box culvert that runs through the property. And lastly under the feel good session a chilly cook off on april 8 with station 17. Station 39. Peoples choice award and station 6 with best booth award a Mission Theme and flip flops, robes and palm trees. And our next slide the innovative boots there with an ambulance near station 49. Haight for station 12 and a jaws theme for station 18. Well attended by the public and the Fire Department. A top the [inaudible] for city emt classllow lute rick and inspector kayedo and calleder storm reaching out to member and showing them ems tech neeks. Day of action at the Fire Department headquarter on the 20th peeshgs and tables for High School Students to learn for police, fire, sheriff and the emt cho nicholson and sandy tongue in the left and chief beaufort and julie on the far right. Sheriff miyamoto on the bottom and therapy dog i forget the name of that dog. Saddie. As well as lieutenant gibbs and more of the day of action. Police booths and fire boths. And demonstrations of equipment on the upper right. And as part of womens History Month a sfgov. Org video, paramedic talking how he became a paramedic. Im a paramedic with the San Francisco Fire Department. Ems division at station 49. I born raised in oak lanltd i was on the path i was playing soft ball in college in hayward and behind our soft ball field is an empty lot. And almost every day at practice i saw this tiny woman leading will big people and big are work outs and eventually i locked and found out she is teaching how to dot physical train to get people red to work in the Fire Department. That peeked my interest. The oak land Fire Department was the first Fire Department i did. I did a firefighter one Training Program there. That got me in fire when i start Paramedic School i went to city college. Did intern ship at station 49. And it was wonder. I learned the San Francisco way to do things. Like wild, wild west. Every day. I loved it was a family environment here. Thats something to say the San Francisco Fire Department i wanted to be avoided science my entire education up to becoming a paramedic. I failed my first time take my national registry. I hope there is nobody that gets discouraged if this happens. You have opportunity to take them again. I did i took it, passed and continued on to paramedic and passed registry the first time. [music] being a woman in the Fire Department im a minority here. Im a minority in multiple aspects a women and biracial the only black woman paramedic in the division. I think it is insane to me. I hope that i can encourage other women to join this profession because that does not represent the city of San Francisco. I life to show up on the scene and i see the comfort in member had may be looks like me they see me and they are comforted. I hope there are women out well and see me and see themselves in me and know than i can do this job and do it well. I have a 20 month old daughter. I would like to teach my daughter it is okay to say, no as a woman and okay to have an opinion and voice that opinion. And established a good job of that. Already. I irrelevant hope that anybody considering this field schedule a ride along. Go to your local department or knock on an ambulance window and ask how you can schedule a ride along that is how diit my first ride alongs i you sa things that blew my mind and said, thats what i want to do with my life. [music] and that concludes my report for march of 2023. Thank you. Thank you very much. Chief that was a great report. I think what we will do is if there are no questions for chief go ahead commissioner collins. I was looking at the list of damages. Fire stations already suffering from damage of and is it my understanding correct that this 307,000 was in fact reimbursed or will be, no. Why no. We applied for fema relief but San Francisco is the county recognized by fema for damage relief. Okay. That was the 335,000 claim . Ouch and the explanation that we are not one of the counties considered. I think only 2 others in the california qualified for aid from the feds. And we were not one of them the storm was not significant enough, unfortunately. Sure felt significant. Thank you. Why you are welcome. Thank you, commissioner Vice President morgan . All right. Thank you. Why thank you. Can we condition with the report from chief. Luttropp. Good evening. Commissioners and president nakajo and Vice President morgan commissioner collins and chief nicholson. Representing the new i think we decide earthquake, safety. And project management thank you for the opportunity to present. The possession of ad c project Program Manager took the load off of busy chiefs. Over seen and the question from you president nakajo that was not chief serrano in charge reporting out of the eastern. Yes. The staff primarily reporting out serrano moved under myself and in the eastern division. Report directly to administration. 2 are working on project and one is working through puc monday money and the water supply officer. Tech untiling and all of these are happening under our current bond. He is working with our warranty and replace am fire houses as station 49 and 35 were built they over saw the project and thess they moved throughout warranty press thymine tain the relationship with manager and contractors. Our water supply officer works with puc to over see the supply system as well as our other Water Systems in the city. The training appears on this chart. Report is to the chief of separations chief postel. As the end user for largest project the fire Training Facility i maintain a close relationship with the cho it get our end user needs met. They dont usually do this i will vamp biography im new to the command staff and introduce myself im chief luttropp. I did most my time as a firefighter in the mission. District. Station 7 at rescue 2. And as an officer most of my time at station one. At the mighty rescue squad. I rescue one and worked the engine and truck captain there, also. I went it training as a captain and met as in Service Training which gave mote training. My rank is battalion dhooef approximate happy to serve as assistant department chief. The highlights of all the bond work done since the 2010 bondful both labeled as Emergency Response bond. 2016 bond the Public Health and safety bond and operating under the 2020 earthquake and merrill lynches sponse. The 2010 bond there was, let of maintenance that needed to be caught up in the water system and the fire houses. Bulk of the work was focus scope work. It was refueling the tanks on the water side and fire houses replacing things voilths to pregnancy and keeping the fire houses from falling down. Gent rirts, doors, Technology Upgrades and envelope was the 2010 work. 2047 we move in the the replace am plans and were able it replace some high seismic risk fire houses with new seismically safe fire houses and looked continue that work. Public healing and safety bond brought us station 49 dispatch facility there are other projects this were replace ams and hose powerhouse. Generator replace ams and wore moving in the 2020 bond. 2020 bond was set aside for the fire Training Facility and fire station. Only one of the projects is currently under project management from public works. Project manager is here today as a spectator. He will present once we move further in the design phase. We are just in the design criteria phase. We move in the phase 2 and established all the things we need out of the Training Division but dont have Cool Pictures to bring yet. Scott will present this when we move into this phase. Thank you near listening on the Program Manager. It is strifrj in this it storms a triangle with the other 2 major points of prescription andd registration but we are trying to dot best work for the city. Any questions . All right. Thank you. Let me take Public Comment approximate ask the commissioners to choim in. Madam secretary any Public Comment. I dont see anybody propping and well is nobody on the Public Comment line. Public comment is closed. Commissioners. Is there anything you would like to address to chief luttropp and as well as chief connor . And chief nicholson if you wish to, as well. Commissioner fraser . Excuse me, collins. So as the various bonds roll out in our expended do we have a sense of what is left in the 2010 bond. That is left in 2016. Does each it sounds like each bond them is mow being the commission has a specific scope. And then proceed according to that scope. Yea this is correct we do have the opportunity to define the scope with our public works per in. We need the work done it is our fire houses. 2010 is near low closed out. Folding all work from 2010 and 47 that is down to a small returnto10. Com there is 12. Million papers left in the bonds. And but the bulk of it is already encumbered by network modern wragz and theien rirt projects 47 and 19. We will have a remainder 4sick milling. We are able to determine this scope . We work with public works to determine the scope. It is a capitol bond. So we are not supposed to use near basic maintenance but focus scope work to maintaining intel rit competence with stand seismic events. Inside the scope. Damage is 300 thousand dollars worth of damage done by the storm system this an example of something to get folded in the scope. That would not be covered by the current bond of one of the projects that was damaged was the float which is under warranty. Obviously. Waves coming over the bough. Is not warranty item but than i have been w with us to remedy the problems. Why thank you. My pleasure. Voip morgan. Blkt cannot hear Vice President morgan. The reading material. [cannot hear Vice President morgan] my pleasure and most of the material is public material from public ws than i did change the location of the website. It is you have to navigate through public ws at this point not a stand alone site. But got good information. [upon cannot hear Vice President morgan] [Vice President morgans mic is not on] it did. It the cyclone event created an east wind and 8 foot waves that crested over the bough. Over the side of the boat. It is does not have significant drains. It is not an ocean going vessel and water was able to penetrate the walls. [cannot hear Vice President morgan] once water was able to penetrate the walls, it significant damage at this time driveway wall and insulation in the walls. Thank you Vice President. Thank you very much, cho i got a couple of comments. The clarity of the questions came up as well. That this presentation in your responsibility are for lack of a description are the bonds. For moiz as well, there had to be some education in terms of the earthquake safety and Emergency Response bond to understand it collapses. The bonds. Part of the issue with support services and chief serranos report there is a whole section on the bonds one thinks about how can all of this work be handled by a unit like chief serrano and more support in this. Chief nicholson, it is i great idea and serves the were of us separate thanksgiving out so you can deal with the bonds. Because there is vast responsibility with that. So00 eye think this is a great idea. Material is comprehensive and there is, let. At this point did you want to introduce your team here . Suburban. If they would not mind. You want to, gentlemen, you want to approach the podium and at least give us a Little Something so that at least since you are here as well, im scott mur an project manager at public works. Recent hire i start in the november. And previously i worked for a large engineering company, and before this built the California Academy of science in Golden Gate Park and walt disney in los angeles building theme parks. I have a bit of experience and im excite body this project and it it is a great thing for the city and love the city. I live here and grew up in the bay your thank you very much. Hang around there might be a question. Captain . Good evening. Commissioners. Im roger i think captain with support service. Fortunate to work with chief luttropp and public works to develop our now facilities. A background in Financial Management and and construction that i get on apply to the projects and fortunate to be here. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Morales. What was it again . Mur an. Mr. Moran i apologize for not get nag right. In terms of being part of this commission for a period of time. The rep with our Department Support services and dpw has always been a challenge in terms of the weather and storms. Interesting you picked up when i picked up how we will recovery this cost. So, it makes me feel good you are here. And that you are here as per of the team and working with chief luttropp and captain i think. I think it will be important because this Training Facility is really important. And so with what like coordination, communication and working on the same goal i think it is going to be important and i welcome xu we again the commission appreciates all the work that is yet to come. And thank you for that participation as well. Chief. Thank you. Captain, thank you. At this point any other thing before a mentes to chief oconnor thank you. Gentlemen. One a question for chief beaufort. I think i can ask that off line been an attendance that is part of the report. It gives mow an opportunity to save remarks of all of us to chief serrano. I have a question for the sake on payroll chief approximate wanted make sure that we were able to have an exchange. I appreciate the hard work you have done and interesting the question was the question you asked about the damages and how we will recover that. I wanted to take that opportunity as well and thank you, cho for your report and all the work you do as well. Thank you very much. Madam secretary . Item 5. Public comment on item 6. Public comment on all matters purtain to 6 including Public Comment on whether to hold item 6b in closed session. Madam secretary j. Nobody propping the podium and nobody on the comment line. Why Public Comment is closed. Possible closed session regarding existing litigation. Vote on whether to conduct item 6b in closed session the commission may hear in close the session pursuant to code section 54957b and administrative code section 67. 10b. All right. Do i need to ask for a motion and a vote on this to go to closed session. Yes, you do. I like to make a motion. Thank you very much Vice President morgan. I will second. Thank you commissioner collins. President nakajo. Aye. Commission will go in closed session at 5 50 p. M. I thank you, vacate this chamber so item 7 are the on closed session. The commission moved to recommend settle am to the board of supervisors. Item 8 vote to disclose any or all discussions in close the session specify in the code section scent. 12a. I like to make a motion we keep it in closed session. Voip morgan. I will second that. Not to keep it in closed session to not disclose. Why not disclose. Im sorry. You second this. Thats what i meant. Thank you very much. Commissioner. And president nakajo. Aye. The motion is unanimous. And item 9 adjournment. Thank you. Clothes. Thank you. Thank you very much. [music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your First Encounter with the San Francisco Fire Department . Yep. It was super cool i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. It is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. Tomato. You know. Yea. So, what is coming up next for what is that for . Oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. You have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. I close my eye its is like im there right now wow whoa. Watch out, man. What is that for . What is this . These are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. White top and red lights on top. This is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. If you cant tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. They have cool things like recessed lights. Roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the Community Safer on emergency scenes. Whats back there . When is not guilty fire engine. Great question. I want to see, sure. Lets go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. This is a fire pump. It is cool all the colors and all that. This fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. A lot of water. It is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. We can lose our 500 gammons quickly. Why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in San Francisco to put fires out. So we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music] mr. Will. Mr. Will. Will oh. Daydreaming. Thanks, everybody for watching bye [music] hi, im lawrence. We ar doing a special series about staying safe. Lets look at issues of water and sewer. We are here at the San Francisco urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco and im joined today by marrielen from puc and talk about water and sewer issues. What are things we should be concerned about water. You want to be prepared for that scenario and the recommendation is to have stored 1 gallon per person per day that you are out of water. We recommend that you have at least 35 days for each person and also keep in consideration storage needs for your pets and think about the size of your pets and how much water they consume. The storage which is using tap water which you are going to encourage. Right. Of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. Its free. It comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6 months. So find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. I use it to water my garden. Of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. Yes. Its an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. Just make sure you check the label. This one says june 2013. So convenient you have an end date on it. And there are other places where people have water stored in their houses. Sure. If you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ; not the bowl but in your tank. In any case if you are not totally sure about the age of your water or if you are not sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. There is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is to use basic household bleach. The recommendation is 8 drops of bleach for ever gallon of water. You add 8 drops of bleach into the water and it needs to sit for 30 minutes. The other option is to boil water. You need to boil water for 510 minutes. After an earthquake that may not be an option as gas maybe turned off and we may not have power. The other thing is that puc will provide information as quickly as possible about recommendations about whether the water is okay to drink or need to treat it. We have a number of twice get information from the puc through twitter and facebook and our website sf water. Org. People should not drink water from pools or spas. But they could use it to flush their toilets if their source are not broken. Lets look at those issues. Sanitation is another issue and something people dont usually or like to think about it but its the reality. Very likely that without water you cant flush and the sewer system can be impeded or affected during an earthquake. You need to think about sanitation. The options are simple. We recommend a set up if you are able to stay in your building or house to make sure that you have heavy duty trash bags available. You can set this up within your existing toilet bowl and once its used. You take a little bit of our bleach. We talked about it earlier from the water. You seal the bag completely. You make sure you mark the bag as human waste and set it aside and wait for instruction about how to dispose of it. Be very aware of cleanliness and make sure you have wipes so folks are able to wash up when dealing with the sanitation issue. Thank you so much, on april 25th 2023 at 504 p. M. Yeah. And with that we will start our meeting and with that we will call for Public Comment on closed session items. Do we have any Public Comment in person . No Public Comment in person. If there are we okay to move on to for virtual participants if anyone cares to share their Public Comment for our closed session items, please raise your hand. Seeing no hands raised