The Fire Commission a regular meeting, wednesday, july 10th, 2019, and the time is just after 9 00 a. M. Item one, roll call. [roll call] item two, general Public Comment members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speaker should address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker. The lack of response from the commissioners is not necessarily constituting agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you, madame secretary. Is there any Public Comment in item two . Come up to the podium. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Questions or discussions from commissioners . Item three, approval of the minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve Meeting Minutes of the june 26th, 2019 meeting. On item three, approval
Commissioners or department personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with a speaker. The lack of response from the commissioners is not necessarily constituting agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you, madame secretary. Is there any Public Comment in item two . Come up to the podium. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Questions or discussions from commissioners . Item three, approval of the minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve Meeting Minutes of the june 26th, 2019 meeting. On item three, approval of the minutes. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. Commissioners . Move. Second. Thank you very much. All in favor say aye . Aye. Any opposed . None. Thank you very much. Madame secretary . Item four, chief of departments reports. Report from Janine Nicholson on current issues, activities, and events within the Department Since a Fire Commission meeting on june 26th,
Minute. First lets send it to meteorologist lisa argen for a preview of your bay area forecast. Good morning to you. Good morning, chris. We are starting out with plenty of low clouds and fog, so once again we will wake up to gray conditions though inland it is clear and temperatures are looking like this in the mid 50s in San Francisco. 54 in san ramon. 49 in santa rosa. So your forecast calling for the clouds and mainly gray start, everyone in the 50s. Then by noon time more sunshine, upper 70s inland. We are warmer around the bay, mid 70s to mid 80s by 4 00. We are coming up to near 9 00 by peak feeding but dont get used to it. A cool down on the way for your sunday. Thank you. The magnitude 7. 1 earthquake that rocked ridgecrest last night. These are some of the images showing the damage the quake caused, rattling light fixtures inside restaurants put people in a panic while multiple fires from ruptured gas lines were reported in kern county. This was centered 11 miles from ridgecr
And minutes ago, firefighter was taken to the hospital with injuries. Reporter juliet, firefighters are still on the scene right now, they are waiting to put out hotspots, if necessary. There also investigating the cause of this fire. Lets go to the video, this fire began in Piedmont Lumber Company number yard, just after 2 30 this afternoon. It started outside of the building, no structures were involved, again, these lumber yard, itself, caught fire. Big flames shot flames into the air and then a third alarm which means about 100 firefighters, and a lot of equipment, right here on the scene. The flames spread to the brush on the outer edges us the fi, it is out now but th is now still concerned for the air quality. As we understand large plastic pipes were among the items that caught fire. Officials say they have asked Health Officials to come to the scene. There are lot materials in there, some concern about the air quality, we have county health coming out to make some assessments
High in the air. That is about hundred firefighters and accompanying equipment. The fire is under control now. There is still concern for the airquality. Large plastic pipes were among the items on fire. They have asked officials to come to the scene. There is some concern about the airquality. We have them coming out to make some assessments as to the air quality certainly a lot of people have seen this and it has pretty much dissipated at this point. There is some concern about what was burning. A lot of it was lumbar. Reporter we have new information i want to bring in steve hill be Public Information officer. You were telling me that you did a closer assessment and a couple of details we want to get right and we thought this was a lumber company but you say otherwise. It is the sleep roofing supply sensing storage yard so the intense dark smoke we saw was a result of not lumber burning that roofing supplies. Reporter secondly in terms of the origin of the fire we believe were you g