for those of you visiting, come down 8:30 to 5:30 monday through friday to city hall and enjoy one of the most remarkable civic institutions anywhere in the united states. it was done by arthur brown. designed by arthur brown, who came up with this concept. people thought for years that this, and i kid you not, and i know the chief will talk a bit more about some of the legacy and the hysterics and a lot of the rumors about what this was purported to be designed on behalf but i ll leave that and no, it s not what you were thinking. that is shameful, really. just not right. but the fact was there were a lot of rumors about this, including the rumors that it was filled, i kid you not, this is a true story, and if san francisco, all of you that love those san francisco stories will probably believe it, they thought it was filled with tomato sauce. it was a big part of the rumor and folklore around coit tower and that it had secret pipes this is a true story secret pipes th
never looked this good. i really want to thank every single person today, i particularly want to thank rose dennis and her team. i want to thank the park rangers and the police department and the fire department and every single city employee who worked so hard over the last few days to make this work today. yesterday we were at the california academy of sciences unvietnamming an incredible sculpture by the artist maya ling. and to me, san francisco has this her i tange of art. we don t want to just put things up, we want them to be beautiful i go fishing with my kids every weekend. when we re out on the bay this is the symbol we look back to. it isn t the golden gealt bridge, it isn t the trans america building, it s coit tower. and we really feel we ve arrived home and hopefully you will feel the same. finally i want to thank the volunteers. the recreation and parks department. you a these are difficult financial times. you don t need to hear it from them. you see it on t
the tremendous and spectacular support we received from one of our sister agencies, the saverp fire department. it is san francisco fire department. it is our great honor to introduce to you the chief of the san francisco fires department, miss joanne h air. kwhite. thank you and haiswhite. thank you and good afternoon. i would like to say thanks for the great coordination effort. rosie did a great job and the director plinlal. blumenthal. it s a great honor to be standing here before you,, a native daughter. what did you think of the 65-foot ladder race? pretty incredible. i would be certainly remiss if i didn t introduce personally each member. most of them are not working today and they volunteered their time to come here. just like the sheriff s department and police department that play a large role in the city, we re part of this the fabric of this great estimate so engine company 41, operating a rig under the direction of o neill, and i would like to introd