Plays and the mission and protect property and lives in San Francisco. The bureaus role is enforce laws and regulations as they pertain to Public Safety and provide education. The laws we enforce California Health and safety code which in that code it establishes the california state Fire Marshals Office and also in the code grants authority to the chief, the department to enforce the state regulations for Public Safety. Thats the fire marshal state fire marshal develops. Also were a part of title 24 parts two and nine. Two is the Building Code and nine is the fire code and enforcing those life safety aspects through occupancies under our jurisdiction. Theyre specified occupancies, not across the board occupancies. Theyre Assembly High rise buildings and et cetera and specified occupancies that fall under our jurisdiction. The bureau is broken up into different sections. We have a [inaudible] section thats stationed up on Mission Street next to the Building Department and they do our p
The building, and let me say that this is only the beginning. We plan to have a subsequent hearing where we will be discussing specific legislation that we will be introducing. This is legislation that is being drafted right now by the san fransco City Attorney and i want to thank chief hayes white and director huey for working with my office in drafting the legislation, and the legislation is being put together for the purpose of figuring out how we as a city can enhance the response and enhance the prevention, and let me say what were thinking about as were moving forward with that legislation. One thing that the legislation could possibly do is to allow housing inspectors to cite building owners when the know annual certification of fire and alarm systems is out of date. Unfortunately now inspections happen but there is no ability to issue a citation when that is the case and we need to remedy that situation. Our legislation is also looking at requiring Apartment Building owners to
We send many samples to the lab whether its samples because we think its excel rant. We rule that out and dont guess so we let the Scientific Evidence and analysis tell us the answers were looking at. Besides the scientific analysis of the fire itself are there other factors that you consider in determining whether or not arson was involved . Exactly. Again witness interviews for example. We can get a wealth of information talking with tenants, talking with owners. We talked to the insurance companies. We talk with neighbors. This is a full fledged investigation where witness testimony, witness information is just as important as the physical evidence, as the Scientific Evidence so no its very important that you understand that we look at all of those, and quite often just one phone call we get, one interview, one personal interview will lead us to yet someone else to talk to and many of our investigations have lead to conclusions based on witness testimony alone, and one case in recen
That would tend to make us believe that this was intentionally set we investigate that very vigorously. We do not look at that and glance over it. Its very vigorously looked at. We send many samples to the lab whether its samples because we think its excel rant. We rule that out and dont guess so we let the Scientific Evidence and analysis tell us the answers were looking at. Besides the scientific analysis of the fire itself are there other factors that you consider in determining whether or not arson was involved . Exactly. Again witness interviews for example. We can get a wealth of information talking with tenants, talking with owners. We talked to the insurance companies. We talk with neighbors. This is a full fledged investigation where witness testimony, witness information is just as important as the physical evidence, as the Scientific Evidence so no its very important that you understand that we look at all of those, and quite often just one phone call we get, one interview,
Have district inspectors. The districts they inspect all new construction. They have the responsibility for complaint inspections within their district and they also conduct referral inspections so for fire clearance if the Health Department or another agency is requesting clearance in the district that is their role if you could speak into the mic so people can im sorry. High rise and getting back to the health and safety code were mandated to inspect every high rise and we have a division and inspectors assigned to that section and 525 high rises in San Francisco and we inspect them annually and then we have the port of San Francisco. We have a captain of the port and inspector assigned to the port and that is more or less a one stop shop for the port. They do everything in relation to the port whether plan review, permits, inspections. They do it all for the port. Likewise the sfia, the airport same thing. We have a captain and a lieutenant inspectors down there and they handle all