Does seem to a lay person to be a fire risk. You are saying if there is not a combustible liquid there, there is no authority to take action . We will make sure that egress and ingres for firefighters is sufficient for the resident. However, beyond lieutenant, maybe i can help. I was in a situation where the home was very cluttered and the Building Owner complained about it and we went. What we did was we looked at the home and we can tell the resident lived there a long long time and it was a Single Family home and the at the present time was very aware of the fire code. What i explained to him is that we are concerned with anything that is fire related. If i cant open the door to get in, i cant put out your fire and you cannot get out of the building in an emergency. There was other things he did by locking the building by putting a screw in the window. I had to educate him. I had to tell him to remove the screws. With the screws there, he couldnt open the window and get on the fire
Get that processed. Thank you for the intervention too. If you have any questions, i would be happy to answer. Supervisor scott weiner thank you very much. Finally we are going to hear briefly from Adult Protective Services. Thank you for coming today. Good afternoon, my name is jill nielsen im the Program Director for Adult Protective Services. Its located within the department of aging and we are part of the Human Services agency. I appreciate you squeezing me in. Its a very interesting topic and i know weve talked about a range of different issues. From the Adult Protective Services side what we are seeing is a real increase in a number of cases that are involving what we are consider to be self neglect. Adult protective services in addition to investigating an intervening of cases involving physical abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse, we do intervene in self neglect situations and in fact about 50 percent of our cases involve self neglect. We receive about 500 reports every si
Briefly the department of Public Health Code Enforcement policies and procedures as requested and i will be available to answer any questions that you may have. I discovered that the chart provided because of the number provided on the flowchart is not too well on the screen. Bear with me. Well try to see if we can get this on. Our Healthy Housing Program is designed to inspect residential apartments with more than three 3 units in the city and to respond to our complaints of properties violating the health code. The department of Public Health enforcement action are generated through two distinct sources. Namely Services Request or complaints to routine inspections. Usually for routine inspections these facilities that we routinely inspect throughout the year and these include the hotels, apartments, shelters. Many of the times, these inspection are scheduled. The Service Request or complaints are usually made to 311 system, through emails, and public agencies and the board of supervi
Department to determine whether or not there are other issues involved. Supervisor scott weiner lets say someone is a hoarder and they have all sorts of materials and papers and books and fabric and lets say there is technically someone who is rather skinny could squeeze through and get in and out and technically its egress and ingres and they start pouring gasoline all over but dont sit on fire, at some point there is an issue with the Fire Department even though its a Single Family home . Yes. If they started a fire using gasoline. Supervisor scott weiner not starting but creating a condition that is not a fire but can become a fire. I know its an extreme situation, but one could imagine it that you have tons of paper, a huge hoarding situation and there is a big thing of gasoline sitting there. But no fire yet. Would the Fire Department do anything . The Building Department would call the Fire Department to do an inspection. The Fire Department would send an inspector and request th
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