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
Mimic what the Building Department does where you can go online look up your residence, where you live, and look up if there is any complaints or pending inspections et cetera and if you have concerns you can call. They can call us directly on that. In addition the Fire Department is working with the american red cross. They have reached out to us and were happy to work with them identifying high risk areas and the goal there is to provide and install smoke alarms to needy residents, and the new smoke alarms starting this july and with the california fire marshal need to have 10 year battery lives in them so thats a new provision thats out there, and its worth noting that 2 3 of all fire deaths that cause that have occurred that where residents had smoke alarms 2 3 were due to they were disabled or they didnt have them either, 2 3, and the reason theyre disabled is nuisance alarms or sometimes the battery fails so this is a step in the right direction and were going to work with them o
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