the meeting to observe and provide comment at the physical location or online at the link on the posted agenda. which you may access logging on the fire commission website. to watch live, please, go to www.. sfgov.org or participate during public comment calling 415-655-0001. access code: 2491 263 7532 ##. members will have opportunity to participate during public comment the public asked to wait for an item before making a comment on that item. comments will be addressed not guilty order received. when the moderator announces the commission is taking public comment. the public should raise their hand pressing star 3 and you will be queued. callers will hear silence when waiting to speak. operator will unmute you. when prompted, callers will have the standard 3 minutes to provide comment. ensure you in a quiet location. speak clear and turn off t's or radios. >> president feinstein. >> present. >> vice president steven nakajo. >> present. >> morgan. >> present. >> commissioner fraser. >> present. >> commissioner paula collins. >> here and jeanine nicholson. present remotely. item 2. the ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgment by president feinstein. ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgement the san francisco fire commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> thank you. >> item 3. resolution 2023-01. adoption of resolution setting forth findings to allow teleconferenced meetings under california code 54953e. is there any public comment. >> this are no hands raised and i don't see >> yes. >> ma'am. come forward. this it is public comment on the resolution. >> i'm sorry. okay. that's next. >> no public comment. all right. if there is no public comment, general public comment item 4. >> no vote on the resolution. >> i'm sorry. >> any of the commissioners have questions or comments they wish to make on item number 3 the resolution 202301? all right. hearing none. public comment will be closed. comment from the commissioners will be closed and -- i think we are ready for a motion. >> madam president. a poison order and i'm clarification did we need to vote on that last item before general public comment. >> yes. shements a motion. >> okay. >> move this. >> thank you and a second. >> thank you. >> hospital feinstein. >> i vote close public comment. >> this is for the resolution. adopt the resolution. >> commissioner fraser. >> in favor of the resolution. >> and commissioner collins? >> [inaudible]. the motion is unanimous. now on to item 4. general public comment. members of the public may address the commission you will to 3 minutes on the matter in the commission's jurisdiction that it is not appear on the agenda. speakers shall address remarks to the commission as a whole. commissioners are not to enter in debate or discussion the lack of a pregnancy by the commissioners or personnel does not constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> and i believe we have one member of the public present to make public comment. hi. i'm stacy. i'm a 20 plus year resident of san francisco a mother of 2 teens and my mine mode of transportation is a bikeful i hopeum indulge me extra timei'm the only person here not affiliated with sfd and reaction to an emt and the lives told by your public information officer jonathan backs tor. i have been threatened online overnight phone by people across the country for calling out a san francisco fire department driver on december 29th a cold and rainy day like today i was bike to a meet when i came across a san francisco ambulance number 50. parked in the bike lane on 7th street. this was the fifth vehicle blocking the bike lane in 5 minutes of riding. i was insensed at lack of currently i knew it was in the an emergency. it is nonresidential and there are empty offices and they were parked 50 feet away from any door way. i could not bike around them. i had the other o upon fendzers due to the dlin iators sfmta used for unused motorcycle park the materials and the way they have been installed sent people to the hospital riding over them in dry weather. i hit them axle since they look like paint and nearly wrecked. no sane san francisco bike rider would tackle them in wet weather. have you to get off your bike. if this was an emergency i would have done so. this was not an emergency. by the way, do you get out of your car and push around obstacles they could have park in the the empty motorcycle parking and empty parking lot they could have parked on the opposite side of the street. as they did, after i dmant everdemand they move. they could have blocked anyone of the 3 main travel lanes they chose to block the bike lane forcing me off my bike and into traffic i film third degree i had enough of the san francisco fire department vetoing proper slow street barriers. speed bumps. protected bike lanes and other traffic calming measures. it has been 9 years since the city committed to vision zero the fire department signed on. but the veto power shows deaths from traffic violence upon risen by a third since 2013. the death count is 4 times what it should be if we were on tra. the fire department used the boogie man your house burning down as a reason to block streets structure fires are down 56% over the past 20 years they used to be a fifth of emergency calls today they rest 6% of calls. >> your time is up. >> what portion is in response to car crashes how much believabilitied that go down if we had safer streets. your time is up. >> i'm sorry. ma'am. i'm sorry we need to follow our rules or i will have to ask you to leave, please. please just follow the rules you can submit a complaint in writing if you wish. i have. i'm sure tell be investigated i am not -- i am not going to argue with you and if necessary i will ask that you leave the room. i have upon given you public comment in accordance with the laws of the state of california. okay. [inaudible] [cannot hear speaker] any further public comment? there is nobody with their hands up on the web exand i don't see any public comments in the room. >> all right. public comment will be closed. >> i believe we are ready to move on to -- approval of the minutes. >> item 5 approval of the minutes discussion and possible action to approve the meeting minutes of december 14, 2022. there is nobody on public comment line. i don't see anybody approaching for public comment in the room. >> public comment will be closed. before we approve the minutes any -- suggested modifications, questions, anything from any of the commissioners? >> i make a motion we approve the minutes. >> unless there were questions. >> all right t. has been moved and seconded. president feinstein. >> adopt. >> vice president nakajo. >> adopt. >> and commissioner collins. >> i move to adopt. >> item 6 chief of department's report. report from chief 've department jeanine nicholson on issues, activities and events went department since the fire commission meeting on december 14. budget of special events, communication issue out reach to agency and it is public. report from operations deputy chief postel on field operations including alarm fires, bureau of fire prevention and investigation and training in the department and airport division and report from ems and community paira medicine sands ratong on ems and community pair medicine divisions. >> greetings all madam president. mr. vice president and commissioners. mawreen. command staff. this is my report. since our last meeting in december, we had a lot -- happen in the last month. but -- i will highlight some of the most important issues -- first of all i like to thank zack who was the city attorney for us. he has left the office of the city attorney but wonderful to work with and gratitude to him. and we will be introducing a new city attorney, i believe in february? but for now we are covered by some of the other ones. so, many thanks to zack, he was a joy to work with. we had multiple budget discussions and instructions from the mayor and i know you the hear from director corso today on that. i will not get into that. but its -- it is a challenging outlook as we know in terms of sort of the city's economic recovery or lack thereof. and how this impacts us as a general fund department of the mark will director corso will speak to that. then swearing in's and -- other of board of supervisor's meetings. but i was at the swearing in on our -- tax assessor joaquin torres and frierz walton and supervisor mandelman and the board of supervisors meeting the other day had they were sworn in and when the new president was elected after 17 roundses of voting. interesting. so i look forward to working with president peskin as well as all the members of the board of supervisors. and -- what i know chief postel may ghet a bit but what i would like to talk about before i take leave for the mayor's department head meeting is -- the fire department's response to the storms. i am so proud of our department and how we responded to all of the challenges over the past several weeks. with the rain and flooding and tree says and wires down and the unhoused folks on the street and the rain. and everything else. our folks have just -- stood up and got the job done and -- i had many -- thanks and compliments from a multitude of supervisors and other department heads in terms of how our department showed up and and what were made for this stuff. we do this every day. respond to a kinds of crisis or another and this was a larger scale. we staffed the emergency operation center with -- operation's chiefs. we had derrick and shane and pat rabbit there to run the operation show for the city and much gratitude to them as limp i'm proud of the department and i will how we handled it. we had 800 calls. on one night the first storm over 800 calls. normally 350 to 400 calls a day. and -- i know 911 was overwhelmed. and we had another night with i believe over 600 calls. our folks are really getting the job done. when other departments are unable or not staffed in order to help the public. we are there. many thanks to everyone on the ground. i also cannot recall if i introduced the chief lovedtrop to you all. he is the deputy chief over seeing [inaudible]. emergency earthquake safety and emergency response bond including the new training facility. i'm hoping he is the audience he is a wonderful addition and has just hit the grounds running. so, thanks to him. and that concludes my report and unfortunately i have to hop off in 2 minutes for the mayor's department head meeting. thank you and good morning. all right do we have public comment? there is nobody on the public comment line. i don't see anybody approaching the podium. >> all right. public comment will be close and i had believe we are going to turn to chief postel. good morning commissioners and president and vice president. command staff. chief nicholson if you are still there. bob postel deputy chief of operation this is is my report for november and december of 22. 2022. i like to start this report with a sin oppositeis. we had 199 working fires. and working fire is there is we put out a definition what that is. a working fire is incident this upon arrival there is an active fire and escalating and requires us putting at least 1 hose line in operation to mitigate the situation it is a fire not a towel in a dryer or food on the stove they are structure fires. 199. 199, 22 of those turned to greater alarms. the resources that came on the first alarm were not sufficient to contain the fire we brought more to the scene to deal with it. to me i look at this and see 2 huh fires. 10% require additional resources. that means that 90% of the incidents our crews go to the training they have been doing and skills they have they are able to apply that immediately with a good plan and coordinated plan and minimize the impact of the fire. when we do fire reports and they ask you for the amount of damage contents loss and the structure ral loss. if you look the at the numbers 22 of the fires required additional resources, i think we should look at it from a perspective of dollars and properties save. did it extend to another unit or building. that is the real impact we have. our impact is not in dollars lost it is dollars saved and buildings saved and hozing saved for the city. i'm proud of the job done by our crews i wanted to highlight that in my report in the annual numbers. in november we had 14 working dpiers worn grirt alarm at 1846, 43rd avenue. this was a fire in a single family home a person trapped on the second floor. battalion 8 required a second alarm he understood that our first couple units would be dedicated making that civilian and the pet. . they are not able to make hose lead and start to control the spread of the fire. the line notoriety beach and the resources from afar distance, getting the resources soon are rather than later helps to minimize the spread of fire through that build being and other buildings. once the rescues made and successful than i were able to contain it quickly. assistant chief was the commander. that was a fabulous job by our people. december we had 20 working fires can 4 greater alerms. december 302 in one night 4 hours apart. first at 663 blocksum and this was across the street if station 8. engine 8 was return figure a medical call had they spotted the flames from the roof of this building and this was a 2 story time 3 warehouse. tag 3 is masonry walls and wood floors and ceilings can burn out the extear year walls would not burn. there was a large line the fire was venting through the roof. took multiple lines to contain it and one point a discussion whether they should pull our people out and transition to a defense ever operation. again, our chiefs on the scene were able to assess the situation provide good intelligence to the upon commander and continued the offensive attack and contain the fire and irrelevant contain it to the rear half of the second floor. outstanding job. about 4 hours later the second fire came this was 4 huh huh frank ownia. it was in the boonldz 3 story residential care facility in bernal heights. they had been to the company in thes neighborhood knew of this target hazzard they have been to a small fire there and were dill gent about preplanning had they would do if they showed up to what happened. very tight streets and difficult access. limited water supply. and it was the training and the prefire planning that accompanies the chief and division 3 that when this happened. we were able to position our ladder pipes safely. and prevent the spread to other buildings the address was a loss it burned out completely from the interior. there were no injuries and minimal damage and a spectacular fire looked like a roman candle from the freeway. the job our people did was above and beyond and the preparation that lead to the success. >> the next day on december 40 there were alarm fires homeiff provement store this fire was in the parking structure and upon arrival battalion 10 humphrey found a large volume of black smoke and a number of civilians were existing the parking structure. had reports there were fires that were started in the structure and in participation of a large incident and as well as the fire situation, the bat talityion chief requested a second aliving room to be prepared. they contain third degree fire quickly. there were no significant injuries to civil yens that is under investigation. there were 3 separate points for that fire, which does not happen on accident. great job there. december 21st at 1150 castro street. this was a 3 story type 5 vicktoryian old wood frame bodiesing. wires on exterior they used a ladtory access the peeked roof. and nobody was home had the fire start today started on the grounds floor and burned up in the attic space and a balloon frame meaning the walls are built and they go from the floor to the sealing and that open channel has no fire stops the floors are not built flat form the fire traveled rapidly through the walls to the attic. labor intensive fire. the floor was burnt through on upper floors the stair case burnt through. rescue was able to get beyond the burnt stair case to get to the top and conduct a search to make sure nobody was home they did not know. there was minimal damage to exposure building chief baker recognizing there was an exposure problem in getting the second alarm and the companies in the building prevented damage to that building. so, great job by everybody on all the fires. now to hat chief was speak of what we have been living through the last 10 days the weather situation. so, on december 30th the current weather pattern started to take shape in we get heavy rains we have building alarms we have call after call going out. immediately was recognized we were deleasting our resources going to alarm calls we scaled back to a single engine company for the calls. by new year's eve the heavy rains and winds created a significant impact. we had flooding. downed trees, downed wires and calls for service. resource were thin. we stretchd and upon responded to every incident that we could. the chief mentioned the call volume reached 800 calls more than double a normal day. i have the chief matt cannon and asked him to come because he was at the dispatch center on new year's eve and there every time the significant -- situations occurred. he was making sense of the chaos of the calls coming in and triaging the call and making a determination where we can go and be effective and where there was nothing we could do. as he told me. it is a very strange foal being to say in the fire department, weep can't come. that being said, we went to every call that was significant. we are here for emergency. dpw does not have 24 hour emergency response. when no matter what the incident is our people step up and responded and deal with the problems and sometimes very creative ways. i like to thank matt for the role he played and when i'm finished you may want to get a briefing. i think he can shed more light when they were dealing with. his calm demeanor and the organization he brought was invaluable. while that was going on the 2 division chiefs pat rabbit and mike thompson allocating the resources to different incidents. they were using the battalion chiefs to help triage the calls and determine where we can have a positive impact and where we can first deal with life safety issues and be prepared to respond to a fire or medical or type of emergency that will happen in the approximate city. i talked about -- the ways people were dealing with the situations this came up. one incident a mud slide on pecan avenue, 4 residents were impacted. battalion chief humphrey was on the scene for over 6 hours. there was a ton of mud and water flowing through homes. one thing we do was we do salvage. salvage we protect the upon property during a fire or after a fire. water, mud. different things. they were looking for ways to divert water that from the backed up storm drain. the chief had the creative idea to get a hold of the equipment and have 8 inch hard suction lines we use for drafting water oust bay to bring those and was able to put those in place to a vert water through these extra hard suction hoses lines we had. around the bu