Construction in 1989 tyson years ago weve been looked at the loma linda earthquake and more recently in mission bay. In early march we were very, very fortunately of fortunate to be able to contain that fire to the building but within 7 minutes that fire took off and didnt have fire damage about 75 feet across the way it was an 8 Story Building but the building activated the fire sprinklers and the main street were dealing with is curb to curb 52 feet across were the ultimate team players i feel thats my roll when we have the opportunity to get it right with with all due respect when we have the opportunity to get it right we think from our operational needs we need more stays can we make it work in the infrastructure yes, but with all respect which i saw geary that was wider and now one hundred and 20 its comparing apples and oranges i believe the 1906 picture was 18 feet across and now one hundred and 20 its like a freeway midway through our student im glad you brought the mission ba
calling names im good. How are you. Good. Im rue been i have 3 seven years in the Fire Services and 15 years as the fire chief in the city of paling to and then director of calfire. During my time there we started up one firefighter system so i had the installation and training and ongoing maintenance of a system as far backing back as the 1990s. I had a positive experience and my firefighters had a positive experience with the installing of the installation. During my time at calfire director systems were in state occupied building sworn testimony. There were 10 believes that had air remresht systems. And that was at the cal epa building and at the state Attorney Generals Office while i was the director at cal. I want to talk about the process having gone through the International Co councils process of daumgsz. It was mentioned this was supported by the organization of the largest firefighter by cal professional firefighters the second Largest Union in the state and by california fir
Of the buildings so im going to talk about how we operablely do our work we have a few Major Concerns one our operations and two the construction time period if 20 to 25 years in mission bay when the building burned if we could pull up the projector. Not the computer but the overhead sfgovtv can you please put the overheads on to abbreviate the overhead thank you. This picture the mission bay is reason we have this any vehicles he at the end were protecting the next building in construction were protecting that to not burden or burn the other building across the street the windows blow out we have a building on Fourth Street was occupied that building was already occupied but you dont see the other two sides of the buildings were not on this building we saved this under construction. Those fires that are not supposed to happen we havent seen in a while those fires i dont know who was around in 2002 but they builds the road in san jose. Well mission bay was the same type of fire to get
The year 20039. The Infrastructure Network must be engineers to meet the needs and safety of the, you know, most yours of the public rightofway you such as pedestrians and people with disabled and bicyclists and traffic unloading and this is for persons with disabled and the utilities and emergency phases given to obstruct and pga lanes and parking and other factors. This slide here was referred by my staff is shows how a truck with a wheel base of 40 feet can make the turn of 60 or 34 feet into a street that or 26 feet. Next id like to im going to turn it over to ken lombardy from the Fire Department actually before we go to the Fire Department i have other questions. So you sent a letter i sent is a letter to the p u expressing concerns about the changes of the street clearance from to 20 to 26 feet and you sent me a letter back i have a few statements with questions. What is the anytime street clearance in San Francisco . Under our codes . The minimum street clearance is 26 feet and
One rig. Theres parking on both sides of the street its about thirty feet wide and parking took up feet so we had 18 feet in front of the fire this show us looking down the block we had one fire truck so the picture above on the right thats randolph were 3 wide with the rigs those people are fighting the fire but if we had to make a rescue with an aerial ladder and if its 3 feet all around we have instances in San Francisco this is candle stick point its one hundred blocks of a project so if you have a hundred blocks of 20 feet its extremely tough to fight a fire we were able to put the rigs on the block up but if this was 20 feet and the two blocks were 80 feet it wouldnt wouldnt be done i think this is important to see the photos in my district since ive seen a number of fires on extremely narrowed streets and your department has been heroic do you also have photos of pedestrians who have been killed oirs Department Responds to the pedestrian accidents i didnt see that in my district