Enforcement are owned by the governor which, as established, comes from the turkish government. Fire fighters and things like public works are owned by the municipality. Let me tell you about budget discrepancies. The Fire Department, i got to tell you, when i went and i met with the fire chief, that one left a mark. Their Fire Department was red tagged but they didnt have a place because it was so cold to house their engines because you cant leave diesel engines out in the cold, just doesnt work too well, so they still had to use the facility but they housed the personnel in two tents out in front. Their headquarters is one tent and their dorm is another tent and they welcomed us in there, didnt even think twice. And in the story of what it was like there, for a community of nearly 700,000 people, their complete complement of Fire Fighters that were on duty, their professional staff, was just over 40. They had 4 pieces of apparatus. The newest of which was over 10 years old. They kept
Say, if theres one guy in this room that is the unsung hero of fleet week, its lewis. He doesnt get a lot of recognition but he spends 16 hours a day this time of year working on fleet week and we went to him applause when we went to him with this admittedly somewhat crazy idea, we said, we want to partner with you and by that i mean i want you it raise some money. And he didnt even blink. He said, well, how much do you need and we calculated it out. Really in the world of corporate america, not that much. In the world of government, even less. And he said, yeah, we can do that. Let me make some phone calls. A couple of days later, he said, all right, i got a couple commitments. Lets put a team together. It was myself, diana, lewis, val valesky, im sorry, its been a long week already and some people from public works. We want a couple engineers, im an old medic, diana is really the logistics master and i figure if were going to go someplace where thins might go awry, i wanted someone l
Them went out and worked every day until they got as many people recovered as possible and even then most of them just moved into the fire station because they didnt have anywhere else to go. And even then it didnt stop because now you have People Living in tents. Their heating is open flames. Every night they were out fighting tent fires so people that were already displaced and already without just gt a little worse. Yet they kept doing it. I asked him, i said, what do you guys need . What can i do . What can we do as a city, as a community, what can we do to help you . And the answer was, you know, we really need equipment. I said, all right, well, i can see what i can do, theres a couple networks. And what we really would like is a way to help the community because as youve heard mentioned here a few times, this idea of post traumatic stress, it was prevalent. You can feel it. People were this was a month or so, two months after. Every time there was an aftershock people were on ed
Center is absolutely essential. And Hydrographic Survey prior to entering ports in affected areas is something that is mandatory. And the joint government inaudible of this exercise will be highly valued. So that conclude my presentation and we always face the glass plenty of water, so we think these are challenges, someone put it in our face and we have to look at an opportunity to grow up and be a better country. Thank you very much. applause . Thank you, admiral, that was fascinating. Next to come up and speak will be rob dudgeon, the director of the Emergency Services division. Good morning again. Im going to talk about a story of people. Its not really going to be a story of geology and the earth moving and statistics. Its going to be about the people and its going to be about the lessons that weve learned and what we took away from that. I wish i could say that the small graup of us went to van, turkey, and did something heroic and changed their lives. I really cant say that. But
Kurdish region, they dont have the greatest relationship with istanbul, they dont have the greatest relationship with the turkish government. Its a completely different world. Its completely opposite. When their Armed Forces Show up, its not really lacked upon as a good thin. This is why i want to say thank you to our military thats here today, to the army, the navy, the military in general, the marines, the coast guard, even i saw a couple air force running around here yesterday. The fact that you are here and you are in San Francisco and you do this every year, it says a lot. Because we lack at look at this as a good week. We have a great working relationship and after being there and seeing that its not a Good Relationship and people get really, really tense when the guys in green show up, it makes me appreciate what we have all the more. Theres one other thing i really appreciate, by the way, and ill direct this to general speese being the trainer that he is, i got a whole new appr