Chief williams, excuse me. Could you start at the beginning for those who may be watching and dont know what the vigilant guardian drill was about . Just, give those folks some framework. Of course. Assistant deputy chief francisco give us an overview and then i can continue with my role as well as his role. Thank you. Welcome, chief. Assistant deputy chief shane francisco, Homeland Security division. Large scale exercise involving radiological incident in San Francisco and the bay area. Occurred over a week long, a lot of training leading up to in the months ahead of time. Two aspects of radiological terrorism incident. First part of the drill was what we call left of boom. Detecting it, mitigating a radiological threat before it goes off. So, what about is about, dirty bomb, just give you a brief background. Dirty bomb, an existing radiation source and use an explosive to spread the existing radiation. It does not create Nuclear Explosion like nagasaki or hiroshima. This is radiation
Emergency. I was very impressed by their participation, taking the drill serious as well as the other agencies that assisted us in that drill. We had the agency chief williams, excuse me. Could you start at the beginning for those who may be watching and dont know what the vigilant guardian drill was about . Just, give those folks some framework. Of course. Assistant deputy chief francisco give us an overview and then i can continue with my role as well as his role. Thank you. Welcome, chief. Assistant deputy chief shane francisco, Homeland Security division. Large scale exercise involving radiological incident in San Francisco and the bay area. Occurred over a week long, a lot of training leading up to in the months ahead of time. Two aspects of radiological terrorism incident. First part of the drill was what we call left of boom. Detecting it, mitigating a radiological threat before it goes off. So, what about is about, dirty bomb, just give you a brief background. Dirty bomb, an ex
And dont know what the vigilant guardian drill was about . Just, give those folks some framework. Of course. Assistant deputy chief francisco give us an overview and then i can continue with my role as well as his role. Thank you. Welcome, chief. Assistant deputy chief shane francisco, Homeland Security division. Large scale exercise involving radiological incident in San Francisco and the bay area. Occurred over a week long, a lot of training leading up to in the months ahead of time. Two aspects of radiological terrorism incident. First part of the drill was what we call left of boom. Detecting it, mitigating a radiological threat before it goes off. So, what about is about, dirty bomb, just give you a brief background. Dirty bomb, an existing radiation source and use an explosive to spread the existing radiation. It does not create Nuclear Explosion like nagasaki or hiroshima. This is radiation material and spreading by means of explosive. Scenario was, intel was developed that woul
Explosion like nagasaki or hiroshima. This is radiation material and spreading by means of explosive. Scenario was, intel was developed that would, that Law Enforcement had word that a terrorist organization had stolen radiological material, they practiced methods to intradict that stolen material prior to a dirty bomb going off. So they practiced that throughout the bay area in the days leading up to it. Our portion as the Fire Department is the right of boom, after the explosion has happened. The Fire Services role in that. So we did a scenario over by station 4 where a car bomb, a dirty bomb went off. We responded to it and we practiced doing an m. C. I. , a mass casualty incident, 50 patients, hot zone, detect radiation present, respond to it and rescue the people out, triage them, and transport, the hospitals also did participate in the drill. Their portion was to receive contaminated patients and practice decontamination prior to going to the emergency room. So deal with that, m.
We have come up with, the department has come up with, this is not us, the department has come up with it and some of it is our input, we have things on there thats absolutely necessary for the city. A lot of the stations are rundown. The firefighters who live there love them dearly but a lot of them are run down. A lot of the trucks are breaking down and through the leadership of this commission, you guys did a great job of being the squeaky wheel before i got here to make sure we get more people and more rigs but the reason it happened is because you spoke out, not because you rubberstamped a budget and thats your job and you guys did a great job of doing that. But there is more to be done for this department. As we saw from department of Emergency Management, we play a key role in making sure that this city doesnt fall apart when theres an emergency. A key role, and frankly, we need a lot more money to do that to our absolute best. And thats just my opinion and some of these things