Im going to do something we do every year to get us in the mood what happened here in 1906. I am [inaudible] and im a native san franciscan. [applause] once again you hearty crazy folks have come together at this ungodly hour to remember of those hardy san franciscans who survived the [inaudible] 111 years ago this morning at 5 12 am. 511 or 513 depending on which day tells. The reason we are here is to remember all those who died but also to honor those who survived and rebuilt the city. Those who continue to rebuild it today. You know who the survivors are. They are each and every one of you. Now 111 years ago powerful seismic waves roared across this prosperous city of San Francisco. Experts today estimate that the colossal earthquake was around 7. 9 on the modern magnitude scale. By the end of the first day the city by the bay would suffer 26 aftershocks and would succumb to a raging inferno that would show no mercy to its bewildered citizens for 74 hours. I would like to give you a moment by moment description of what happened to our city and its citizens on this morning 111 years ago. This is not some boring history folks but very real and it happens all over the world every year and it can happen and will happen again. Later ill introduce you some of your fellow san franciscans work every day not just on april 18 or october 17, to make sure we all will be survivors on the inevitable next big one. Wednesday, wednesday, april 18, 1906. In the morning 5 12 am. A great shock is felt throughout the San Francisco air. 2025 seconds later San Francisco residents are weakened by a tremor 4560 seconds long. The first casualties from the massive quake occur when lowrent tenements in the south of market district collapse. Hundreds are killed as the liquefied ground swallows their homes. More victims are added to the death toll as collapse structures catch fire and present prevent rescue attempts to tragically the mayor of the city would be the most to fight the rampant fire. Fire chief Dennis Kee Sullivan is seriously injured during the earthquake when a tower of the California Hotel collapses into his fire station hall. He would die four days later. Due to severe earthquake damage telephone and telegraph communication within the city is impossible. A few messages are sent around the world by the pacific cable before that line number two, fails. 6 am. San Francisco MayorEugene Schmidt is unaware of the severity of the quake until anxious city officials arrive at the door. He leaves the safety of his home and heads down town to see for himself the enormous scale of the disaster. 6 30 am. All available troops are ordered to report to the maitre of the hall of justice so 1700 soldiers come to the aid of both residents and firefighters. 8 14 am. A major aftershock strikes and causes many of the damaged buildings Still Standing to collapse. Throughout the day the city suffers 26 aftershocks, each one slowing the already overstressed rescue effort. Fires rage and spread throughout the city. They are not stopped until 74 hours later. Many of San Franciscos finest buildings collapse under these firestorms. Firefighters begin dynamiting buildings to create fire breaks. Afternoon now. 1 pm. The temporary hospital set up outside city hall is abandoned due to the impending fighter break. The sick and injured are forced to evacuate to temporary tents throughout the city and in parks on the edge of town. 3 pm. Mayor schmitz appoints his committee of 50 composed of the citys most prominent citizens and businessmen. Hearing reports of looting in the streets, the maitre orders a shoot to kill proclamation against any looters. Evening. Apm. Hopes of saving downtown are dashed as a new blaze breaks out in shifting winds push the fires towards the heart of the city. 9 pm. Firefighters make the stand at union square on powell street by the fire reaches the bow line and continues relentlessly of nobhill. Thursday, april 19, 1906. 2 am. California gov. Georgearrives at oakland to assess the damage. San franciscos three main newspapers the call the chronicle and the examiner [inaudible] to print a special joint addition. 6 pm. Responding to a wireless telegraph message the us cruiser ship condo, arrives in San Francisco bay to help in the relief efforts. The great fire reaches van ness avenue which is 125 feet wide. Basing the decision to blow his city to pieces were to watch it burn, mayor schmitz finally agrees to let the army create a massive fire break in the hopes it can stop the raging inferno this decision means abandoning dozens of city blocks and many of them filled with mansions to the fire. The spectators have split the day watching the fire atop nobhill finally realized their homes will be saved and soon will burn. Friday, april 20. The firebreak at van ness finally holds the westward [inaudible] inferno is halted. Mayor schmitz makes an announcement proclaiming victory of the battle of anas. 18 seamen from the cruiseship chicago rescue 20,000 refugees on unprecedented evacuation by sea. Saturday, april 21. 7 15 am. After all the flames finally been extinguished mayor schmitz officially declares the fire over. Sunday, april 22. Cable cars begin running again on market street. April 18, today. No one knows when the next quake will come. San francisco is doomed to relive these horrific events of 1906 because the seven San Andreas Fault never respite may strike tomorrow were not for 100 years but it might just strike at the city. As the city sleeps tonight. Here is your San Francisco history. [applause] now, we gather every year to honor those who died in a terrible day in oser survived. Sadly all of our survivors have passed into history a few minutes ill be making three great [inaudible] in california who helped keep the flame alive so that future generations can know about our past. To kick off our speakers this morning it seems only fitting to have our mayor address you. Please, have a nice warm welcome for mayor ed lee, everybody. Please. [applause] to hear what mayor schmitz had to go through youve got to really open up your eyes. Im so glad youre all here this morning. How is everybody . Thank you commemorate or spread first responders. Lovers of San Francisco, i join you today in this wonderful commemoration but also to let you know, we are ready. Im not going to go through what mayor schmidt had to go through. Neither are all of you because we learned those lessons. Thats why we put 4. 8 billion in our water system to make sure we got an auxiliary water system that the Fire Department can be really confident in. Our Emergency Management is working really hard with the neighborhoods Response Teams how many members here are members of spinner . There we go. Get trained everybody. Get more folks out there. The young people especially. We have all of our pumping buildings that are retrofitted and we have even gone into the private residential buildings. The saw story buildings, to make sure they are safe as well. But the water system, the auxiliary system, are practicing with our first responders, with our police chief who is a newbie here. And his wife are newbies here so we see chief scott welcome him and. He is brandnew but his force, police force, along with our Fire Department will be working very closely with our department of Emergency Management. We will make sure more people are trained go to sf 72. Org to make sure that you have all the advice and the practice that we have with our sheriff and with our dem and with everybody else. We will make sure this city is safe. But also, it is a fact that we are here today commemorating and remembering everything. Because we take the things seriously. And so do you so i want to say, thank you, for commemorating is it silver or gold hydrant this year . [laughing] got to be the gold hydrant. Lets do it gold this year. Thank you everybody for being here. Thanks for celebrating 1906. [applause] thank you, mayor. Weve got a bunch of dignitaries here this morning in our audience i know i saw him yesterday great he gets up so early because he goes to bed so late thefabulous honorary honorable i should say, mayor willie lewis prompted where is allie brown somewhere. . He somewhere in the crowd. There he is. Hes got some coffee working. What time did you go to bed . 3 am . You got up at 4 am . [laughing] also. This morning is dbi director tom bowie. Give him a nice ham. Hes in the audience i know that. [applause] our next speaker and esteemed woman i love her shes the first woman chief of the San FranciscoFire Department would you please welcome the honorablei call the hon. , chief joanne tran white tran hayes good morning everyone. Welcome. I bent as a native san franciscan i know well that we are a city rich in history and tradition and this is what my favorite traditions. Because we get to commemorate what happened 111 years ago today. April 18, 1906. We remember those who suffered great losses that they but we also get to celebrate and thats one of the things that San Francisco is very proud of its strength, its fortitude and its resilience to literally pick the city up and rise from the ashes after the earthquake and fires of 1906. I would like to acknowledge all you here today to carry on that history and that tradition. I particularly would like to say thank you to mayor ed for making sure that all of and that her parents Work Together to be the strongest most resilient city we can. I like to say particular thanks to all the numbers of the San FranciscoFire Department. Those that came before me, those that are here today those that are retired. Thank you to angie mann, truck one and rescue wanted the men and women in the neighborhood here for all the work they do every day. Very much appreciate it. Thank you. [applause] i see some members that will hopefully soon be joining the San Francisco firearm and also fire reserves and for all you to take advantage of the wonderful free program that was built out of the 1989 numberearthquake and that is our inert program neighbored Emergency Response team. Thank you to the spinner volunteers also here today. [applause] we dont want to let the day pass without making sure that everyone has a plan. And is for peptic is a good time in addition to commemorating and supporting also educating the public and the community about the importance of having a plan in your workplace, in your homes, your families. We are here to make sure and theres many different websites were department you can contact to assist with that plan. So thank you again for coming out a special welcome i know is going to be speaking. He we carrying on the tradition of our partners in San FranciscoPolice Department. I like to welcome our new San Francisco police chief, william l scott. Thanks everyone. [applause] well, that was a nice welcome and we are going to welcome its his first, its his virginal 1906 memorial. [laughing] he is new. We want you to welcome my very warmly. He is our new chief of police. Please, welcome chief bill scott, everybody. [applause] good morning everybody. Well i been called many things but i dont know if virginal is one of them. [laughing] sorry. Thank you all. This a wonderful event and i am really really proud to be here. I brought my wife with me and she woke up to at 3 30 am to come out here because she wanted toknow this tradition and be a part of it. So really, thank you for the welcome. Today is about many things and as the mayor and chief hayes white alluded to its about resilience. Is now coming together at a time of emergency. Its about the spirit of San Francisco. It is also about sacrifice. I know so many people lost so much that morning of 1906. That includes the San FranciscoPolice Department who lost one of our own, ofc. Matt spinner who died at nathan and elson street who as he tried to save a woman whose walk in front of a wall was about to crumble in front of her and she didnt survive and also the officer did not. So we recognize with this commemorates. It commemorates everything that we are about as a city. It commemorates everything we are about as a San FranciscoPolice Department. Sacrifice. Commitment. Coming together in times of tragedy and in times of chaos. And its about our spirit. I thank you and im grateful to be a part of the spirit and the city of San Francisco. So thank you for the warm welcome. Thank you. [applause] glad to have you, chief. You dont think of San Francisco is a town with a sheriff. The sheriff is in town everybody. [laughing] we all love her very much please welcome our sheriff, vicki hennessy, everybody. Lets hear it for her. [applause] good morning everybody. It is wet out here but it its nice and it so great of you all to come out this morning. I have to say that i love the period costumes of a number of people. I love this right here is great, too. So thank you so much for taking so much time. Im another native san franciscan. I was born and raised in the city and i remember my aunt who was born when i was a child talking to me about her experience in the 1906 earthquake and it something that is indelibly traced in my mind. I have to say, its always great to be at this commemoration. Its a commemoration of the people who died and the people that are here, and going forward, making sure that we are resilient. I think obviously, is something we need to do. So have a great time. Undocking to keep you any longer. Where i get on with this because i think its almost time to ring the bell. Thank you. [applause] i love the title of the people in city government. This is the chief of resilience. Thats something thats heartening to know that this guys can be resilient in teaching us how to preserve the infrastructure of San Francisco. So to do that, do i have his name . Yes, i do. The fabulous brian strom is he appeared chief resilience. [applause] are you feeling especially resilient this morning . Yes. I do feel especially resilient. [laughing]. There we go. So as the city chief resilience officer and the director of office of resilience and Capital Planning i have the benefit of expensing incredible work and a mindset that really came out of the 1906 earthquake. The fact that we as san franciscans have developed a culture of preparedness. Take a minute to resilience the remains in critical part of san franciscans of mine said to the very day. This is represented in the recent efforts to improve Critical Infrastructure that weve seen over the past 20 years and actually going all the way back to the original earthquake. The mayor mentioned the auxiliary water supply system. In addition, as of late, we built a new hospital again through the sport of and franciscans. We built a new Public Safety building. We have made investments in our sewer systems and our water delivery system. Those investments are told over 10 million just in the past 15 years alone. San francisco is also set to take care of its private property the mayor mentioned the soft story program. I can tell you where are the among the first in the nation with a mayor designed exactly 3 years ago today and ordinance approving soft story requiring soft story residential retrofit. 1100 of those buildings have already completed work before requirements were even in place. In addition, we have thousands more that are underway including a large number that will be due in september and were committed to working with our time in a building inspection who will be working with residents to make sure those homes are safe. In the true spirit of resilience, doing one thing may also means doing other things. In addition to taking care of these homes we will alsobe providing residents in fact 111,000 residents, with safe rentcontrolled homes and historic facilities. Were in historic apartments. These controlled units will also add additional housing to our population. The soft story retrofit enable us to create more housing in the floors with a soft story occur and again addressing another issue we have in the city. San francisco has more work to do as we building codes consular change and is Critical Infrastructure such as our great seawall need to be strengthened. Even the support weve seen since the 06 earthquake over the past 111 years San Francisco will intolerably be up to the task. Its in our blood. Thank you. [applause] thank you that sounded very resilient. I enjoyed that. A couple quick things. Getting close to five a couple quick things. Getting close to 5 11 am but we have a wreath which were to do an honor. We gather to honor those who died in a terrible day and those who survived as i mentioned the survivors passed into history this last year we lost three friends. The stories of San Francisco and california who helped kick the [inaudible] and know about our past. One was philip choi the dean of Asian American historians died in San Francisco home at the age of 90. Mr. Choi is a teacher and author advocate for civil rights. Selftaught historian and became an expert on the chineseamerican experience. He believed the contributions of Chinese Americans at that availment of the nation have been ignored [inaudible] secondly we lost Gladys HansenSan Franciscos longtime city archivist an expert on the citys history who died last month she was 91. Ms. Hansen was in charge of the Citys LibrarySan Francisco collection which he turned into a nationally recognized reference library. She was the best known for her book denial of designs which called the Hidden History of 1906 earthquake and Fire Research found the death toll of the disaster was much higher than the city admitted at the time. Finally, we lost kevin starr, former state librarian teacher journalist and author whose encyclopedic eloquent writings by the california made him the premier chronicle of the state history died in january in his native San Francisco. He was 76. So right now, i like to bring up the mayor again. Mayor lee, we have a wreath in honor of all three of these san franciscans. We are going to hang out wreathits about 5 11 am. We got about a minute to do this. But, if i could get some help here, fellows to do the wreath . Okay. My buddy, lea who is been doing this forever. Should we do a countdown now . Are we close . Yes. Will get a siren in about 20 seconds. How about that will do a countdown and a moment of silence. A countdown and a minute of silence. From 10 on down. 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Now a moment of silence. A minute right lea . Yes. [moment of silence] [siren] ladies and gentlemen, that is our moment of silence but let us continue to persevere San Francisco. Thanks for all of you for being here to were going to sing a little song that came from the San Francisco also known as San Francisco. Its a song from the 1936 american film, San Francisco. Us written by [inaudible] and lyrics by [inaudible] the film is set in San Francisco before and after the 06 earthquake. The song is sending song by Jeanette Mcdonald and because of the anthem of the survivors of the earthquake. Jake amari going to help lead us . Jay johnson, everybody. I just want to say one thing. Thank you to our friends Emma Willie Brown this water running in the fountain here. Hes the one who made it happen. [applause] you guys know this, right . [singing] [applause] j johnson. [applause] im not sure what key that was in. [laughing] j johnson, everybody the peoples key in c. We have one more speaker that we could not get you right away because of in c. We have one more speaker that we could not get you right away because of the 5 12 am we want one of you coming up right now is the Deputy Director of the department of Energy Management of San Francisco to invite you to go to [inaudible] keep it going for mike dayton, everybody thank you. Good morning again everybody. Thank you all so much. Its been a privilege and honor to participate in this commemoration. To represent the department of Emergency Management. You know we were to support all the public officials, the Public Safety officials, that spoke before you. We also encourage peopleto join dirt again lets give it another run applause better in nerd. [applause] is also two things you can dupe you can visit sf 72. Org to find out how you can be better prepared and how you can prepare your neighbors. You can also text alert, sf 888777. This is our way in the city to communicate you during and emergencies. Its again i want to thank you and invite you to the 20th and church. Thanks for coming out on such a beautiful morning. Thank you. [applause] thank you, mike. Now, our next little piece of business is we will go to 20th and church. Fabulous lily coin is going to be mentioning some certain names were also our last survivor bill delmonte, died like when 09. Stockbroker to the and. Smart guy. Well talk about him once we get out there to all of our great memories continue up to 20th venture. Thank you for joining us here this morning. Yes . [inaudible off mic] the castro theater is showing San Francisco tonight and will be live music. Yes, okay good all right. Anybody else have any other announcements they like to make . All right. Well see what the 20th and church. Thank you for coming out. It continues to be a great celebration. No survivors you are the survivors. Thank you San Francisco. We will talk to you next year and will see you at 20th venture. Thank you. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the maters Disability Council meeting here friday, friday, april 21, 2017 in room 400 of San Francisco at city hall. Im going to go ahead and read the introduction. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grow vanness and mcallister street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk street garland the good lit entrance