Disasters are local. Somewhere theres a little girl or little by or grandmother that is counting on us to get it right. So i thank you in advance for that young boy, that young girl, that family, whose lives will be changed, whose lives may even be preserved, because of your efforts. Thank you for inviting me here today, thank you for allowing me to learn from you, thank you for allowing me it share a little bit about what we do and mostly to simply say thank you, it was my pleasure to be here, secretary schultz, thank you, admiral beeman, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, thats all i have. If you have any questions ill be happy to take them. Response and recovery. And the moderator for this panel is the city administrator for the city and county of San Francisco, naomi kelly. Please help me welcome naomi kelly. applause . Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for having me here today. Again, im naomi kelly, city administrator for the city and county of San Francisco and its an honor to b
You for allowing me to learn from you, thank you for allowing me it share a little bit about what we do and mostly to simply say thank you, it was my pleasure to be here, secretary schultz, thank you, admiral beeman, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, thats all i have. If you have any questions ill be happy to take them. Response and recovery. And the moderator for this panel is the city administrator for the city and county of San Francisco, naomi kelly. Please help me welcome naomi kelly. applause . Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for having me here today. Again, im naomi kelly, city administrator for the city and county of San Francisco and its an honor to be participating in this Important Panel discussion on the uss macon island. Over the course of the next 50 minutes, we will be going to focus one of our were going to be focused on one of the most important elements of our city and thats the resill yepbs of our life line. I am joined by a Prestigious Panel of experts who i beli
Hospital. Had this is the multiple causality unit and also they, work backwards. Our its a coincides i used to work there. One of our rescue ballots and boats. This is the 201 forms we use the same forms. In the a basically encouraged plan and this is the golden state bridge for an anniversary event. First, the parade celebration in 2010. Someone made a great call and they put a big screen here so a lot of the crowds stayed back and it was safer. The public. And thats the end of my presentation i want to stress and reiterate what the mayor said we need to replace the old system. My questions on the presentation . Bring up one issue the evaluation of folks in the city. I know that in boston they would take folks immediately to the hospital we have multiple as to the throughout the city. We recently were drilled. So theres no plan to even discuss putting a helicopter pad here. I dont know. Thats an issue thats been discussed for years and years. That is an ongoing discussion. I think for
The bottom line is it is so critical at this point to talk about the Amazing Things and capabilities you have both within the internal system of the federal management Emergency Response systems here that exist in the city and the state and the federal level and what the military can bring. Our chain of care will only be as strong as its weakest link and my job is to make sure that if you call us or if you need us in the Maritime Services that our links will be as strong as yours and your job in the civic and again, i applaud the amazing men and women of our Law Enforcement agencies and our Emergency Response teams, you are my heroes. You are the ones that run in when everybody else is supposed to run out. And we see the drama all the way from 911 through katrina to whatever the next catastrophe is going to be. We live in a nuclear age. Who would have predicted the United States would be fully invested in a response in japan . Who would have predicted several years ago when a tsunami h
Responded as best it could. What we did, the naval maritime forces, we sent our balts group down there which was patroling the area, we sent the hospital ship comfort down. So you have the comfort on the east coast, you have the mercy on the west coast. The mercy is parked down in san diego. It just got back from its asian humanitarian assistance from guam, indonesia, vietnam, an amazing number of nations were partnering with. Those hospital ships with 1,000 beds, 12 operating rooms, they produce their own medical oxygen, they have ct scanners and they can do almost anything a hospital on the west coast can do and we can park them offshore as we did in haiti and in haiti they spent the first 72 hours once they got on scene doing nothing but repairing crush injuries and restoring life. Thats the capacity we have. I like to think in our partnership with the Maritime Services and the coast guard and our reserve forces, i like to think of us as americas or the worlds 911 when something bad