Good afternoon, i am jeremy spits with San Francisco public works government affairs. Thank you for calling this hears. A brief overview and then turn it over to our assistant superattendant with the bureau of human forest tree and the Deputy Director of operations if you have any questions. Public works is committed to fire safety and has a long history of partnering with the Fire Department. We are committed to greening San Francisco and positively impacting climate predictions. It includes rightofway and street trees and not many undeveloped parcels. We have proactive Maintenance Plans and work with the Fire Department to address areas of concern even on private property. We have quick reactive response when hazards are brought to our attention. As i mentioned. We have very little space near homes or residential areas. Our main areas of responsibility include medians and scattered parcels throughout the city such as along the boulevard and the areas around brotherhood bay and sunset
We dont have it on the screen [ overlapping speakers ] the first chart i want to pull up here, this is a i know that the Fire Department is going to show you this map as well. This is the San Francisco department of Emergency Management and cal fire, fire hazard severity zone map. You can see that San Francisco is depicted there and as per cal fire criteria, San Francisco has a low wildfire risk and some areas of fire risk, but no moderate or extreme. On the righthand side for comparison weve inserted the sonoma county, the same map for them where the horrific kinkaid fire was. You can see their circumstances are markedly different. I only put those up for context since we were talking about wildfire, the circumstances very wildly throughout the state and there is a point of comparison in how the city compares to the most where the most recent wildfire in california just occurred. For us, our best practices, first and foremost, we consult and stay aligned with the San Francisco Fire De
Jeremy. Good afternoon, i am jeremy spits with San Francisco public works government affairs. Thank you for calling this hears. A brief overview and then turn it over to our assistant superattendant with the bureau of human forest tree and the Deputy Director of operations if you have any questions. Public works is committed to fire safety and has a long history of partnering with the Fire Department. We are committed to greening San Francisco and positively impacting climate predictions. It includes rightofway and street trees and not many undeveloped parcels. We have proactive Maintenance Plans and work with the Fire Department to address areas of concern even on private property. We have quick reactive response when hazards are brought to our attention. As i mentioned. We have very little space near homes or residential areas. Our main areas of responsibility include medians and scattered parcels throughout the city such as along the boulevard and the areas around brotherhood bay an
Good afternoon, i am jeremy spits with San Francisco public works government affairs. Thank you for calling this hears. A brief overview and then turn it over to our assistant superattendant with the bureau of human forest tree and the Deputy Director of operations if you have any questions. Public works is committed to fire safety and has a long history of partnering with the Fire Department. We are committed to greening San Francisco and positively impacting climate predictions. It includes rightofway and street trees and not many undeveloped parcels. We have proactive Maintenance Plans and work with the Fire Department to address areas of concern even on private property. We have quick reactive response when hazards are brought to our attention. As i mentioned. We have very little space near homes or residential areas. Our main areas of responsibility include medians and scattered parcels throughout the city such as along the boulevard and the areas around brotherhood bay and sunset
Vegetation and dead wood from structures and properties to create that 30foot defensible area and the focus is on flammable material, not on green shrubbery or trees, but those things that are high and have a high probability of a flash point. We also believe this type of management of vegetation is consistent in trying to also balance park and Land Management with biodiversity with other Sensitive Habitat preservation which is part of our mission. Thats the proactive approach we tabling every year. On the reactive side if the department receives a complaint or a flagged situation, we immediately dispatch staff out there to evaluate it, take a look at it, and if we see a credible fire hazard, we will do that Fire Management abatement at that site. We maintain a list of properties where we do this, especially where we have an adjacent residential parcel shared Property Line so we can keep up with this. If we find new spaces, we add them to that list. Because that is the list we start wi