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It has also come under scrutiny for moving too slowly to reduce a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/san-francisco-fire-department-faces-four-year-investigation-backlog\" target=\"_blank\">backlog of hundreds of fire investigations\u003c/a> going back several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/258996076\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters and EMS officials say they are struggling with outdated or ineffective equipment, including firetrucks, ambulances and cardiac monitors that are in need of constant repair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One high-profile example of the equipment problems: the failure of the department's \"jaws of life\" devices after last November's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/13/injuries-reported-in-toursit-bus-crash-near-s-f-s-union-square\" target=\"_blank\">tour bus crash in Union Square\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complex tools, used to cut open vehicles in which victims are trapped, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/53963934-story\" target=\"_blank\">were unable\u003c/a> to cut through the high-grade steel of vehicles involved in the accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, \u003ca href=\"http://civilgrandjury.sfgov.org/2014_2015/14-15_CGJ_Report_SFFD_What_Does_the_Future_Hold_%207_16_15v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a civil grand jury report\u003c/a> found, among other things, the Fire Department's emergency medical response times fail to meet state standards, in part because of \"a chronic lack of serviceable ambulances.\" The grand jury also found that half the department's ambulance fleet exceeded its expected service life of 10 years and that the agency lacks a strategic plan for replacing ambulances and other emergency equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of several groups that represent rank-and-file firefighters said in a series of recent interviews that these and other issues -- such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/S-F-chief-bars-firefighters-from-buying-Super-6738871.php\" target=\"_blank\">a January dispute\u003c/a> over whether individual firefighters would be allowed to buy special badges commemorating Super Bowl 50 -- continue to depress morale in the city's firehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Morale has been at rock bottom and continues to be a rock bottom,\" said Tom O'Connor, president of Local 798, which represents the city's firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and eight employee groups sent a letter to Mayor Ed Lee in the fall of 2014, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/25/san-francisco-firefighters-joanne-hayes-white-ed-lee\" target=\"_blank\">calling on him to fire Hayes-White\u003c/a> over concerns that the city's ambulances were not responding to emergencies fast enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompted the city to invest in more ambulances and paramedics -- steps that didn't satisfy the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn't be managing the department by crisis, and we shouldn't be managing the department by headlines,\" O'Connor said. \"We've been met with silence from City Hall. We can't sit on our hands while these policy failures continue to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the no-confidence vote, morale has probably gone down even more, said Kevin Smith, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbfa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Black Firefighters Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're basically putting Band-Aids on what I perceive is a broken system,\" Smith said. \"People are disenchanted and morale continues to stay low because of our leadership issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improvements at the department happen at a snail's pace, said Mariano Elias, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbomberos.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Bomberos\u003c/a>, which represents the city's Latino firefighters. Hayes-White is out of touch with the rank and file and rarely visits firefighters at their stations, Elias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like she's almost hiding behind the walls of headquarters, where firefighters rarely go,\" Elias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The morale still sucks,\" said Mike Whooley, a Fire Department paramedic captain who leads the EMS Officers Association. \"There's a sense of hopelessness that nothing is going to change. We do not have people with any level of vision at our upper administration. In this department we are able to accomplish an excellent mission in spite of the lack of leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are not enough firefighters and paramedics, said Keith Baraka, a firefighter who chairs SF ResQ, which advocates for LGBTQ members of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When their ability to do their job is hampered by inadequate personnel or constant mandatory overtime, it really adds undue stress and strain to a job rife with those things already,\" Baraka said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor London Breed, president of the Board of Supes and a former member of the Fire Commission who has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/15/s-f-fire-investigation-delays-spark-new-call-for-chiefs-dismissal\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly called for Hayes-White to be replaced\u003c/a>, says she sympathizes with rank-and-file firefighters and their frustrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They want to save lives and when they run up against challenges because folks at the top aren't thinking about the future or thinking about the needs of the members who are out there, they run into a lot of problems and there's a lot of frustration,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes-White has been with the department for more than a quarter of a century -- that last 12 years as chief. When she was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2004, she became the first woman to lead a major U.S. fire department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes-White says has no plans to step down. She acknowledges some of the department's equipment problems, but described efforts to have her replaced as \"personality conflicts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single biggest problem at the department is its lack of a unified voice, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There can be a confusing message when it becomes personal and there's an assault on one person,\" she said. \"Certainly in a position of leadership, you're not going always please everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief says the department has been in a rebuilding phase since the economic downturn led to budget cuts and staff reductions several years ago. Hayes-White describes her agency as a model for the nation, emphasizing its financial health and the diversity in its ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief says she plans to add more firefighters and increase the department's truck and engine fleet and points to improved ambulance response times and a reduction in the department's investigation backlog as proof of progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That backlog, which had reached more than 400 cases, is down to around 200, fire officials say. But, the agency's slow pace in completing probes into fires is expected to be a focal point of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/23/s-f-fire-department-faces-board-of-supervisors-hearing-on-investigation-backlog\" target=\"_blank\">a planned hearing\u003c/a> called by Supervisor David Campos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fire Department is one of San Francisco's largest agencies and it uses a large share of general fund money. Its budget for the current fiscal year is more than $356 million, which is $12 million more than the year before. Hayes-White says more funds will go toward academies to train new firefighters and paramedics, improvement in emergency medical services and investments in new equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee has not wavered -- at least publicly -- in his support of Hayes-White. But he says he wants to know why the firefighter groups and the chief don't get along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need our Fire Department to respond to every single emergency, to be there when we need them, to be as a team,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, for the first time in the department's 150-year history, the Fire Commission conducted a performance evaluation of its chief, prompted by the no-confidence vote and the agency's slow ambulance response times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report was sent to the mayor's office and prompted meetings between the mayor and every member of the commission to discuss Hayes-White, fire commissioner Stephen Nakajo said during a Board of Supervisors Rules Committee hearing last month. Members of the commission told the chief during a closed-door session what they expected her to do to improve her performance, Nakajo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that March 24 rules committee hearing, Supervisor Breed asked Nakajo if the relationship between the chief and the rank and file could be repaired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope so,\" Nakajo answered. \"I pray for it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issues of morale, I hear it, I see some of it, but I also see a lot of support as well,\" Nakajo said, adding that he plans to spend the next several years working to bring the two sides together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission plans to begin its second evaluation of Hayes-White over the next few months, according to Francee Covington, its president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the panel does not plan to release its reports on Hayes-White, Covington said in an interview, adding that repeated calls to replace the chief do not concern her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just like any workplace, sometimes morale is up, and sometimes it's down,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covington said the commission would like to know what Hayes-White's vision is for the department's future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twenty-first century firefighting is very different from firefighting the way it's been done in the past,\" Covington said. \"What is it that she sees on the horizon that we need to plan for?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One high-profile example of the equipment problems: the failure of the department's \"jaws of life\" devices after last November's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/13/injuries-reported-in-toursit-bus-crash-near-s-f-s-union-square\" target=\"_blank\">tour bus crash in Union Square\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complex tools, used to cut open vehicles in which victims are trapped, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/53963934-story\" target=\"_blank\">were unable\u003c/a> to cut through the high-grade steel of vehicles involved in the accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, \u003ca href=\"http://civilgrandjury.sfgov.org/2014_2015/14-15_CGJ_Report_SFFD_What_Does_the_Future_Hold_%207_16_15v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a civil grand jury report\u003c/a> found, among other things, the Fire Department's emergency medical response times fail to meet state standards, in part because of \"a chronic lack of serviceable ambulances.\" The grand jury also found that half the department's ambulance fleet exceeded its expected service life of 10 years and that the agency lacks a strategic plan for replacing ambulances and other emergency equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of several groups that represent rank-and-file firefighters said in a series of recent interviews that these and other issues -- such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/S-F-chief-bars-firefighters-from-buying-Super-6738871.php\" target=\"_blank\">a January dispute\u003c/a> over whether individual firefighters would be allowed to buy special badges commemorating Super Bowl 50 -- continue to depress morale in the city's firehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Morale has been at rock bottom and continues to be a rock bottom,\" said Tom O'Connor, president of Local 798, which represents the city's firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and eight employee groups sent a letter to Mayor Ed Lee in the fall of 2014, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/25/san-francisco-firefighters-joanne-hayes-white-ed-lee\" target=\"_blank\">calling on him to fire Hayes-White\u003c/a> over concerns that the city's ambulances were not responding to emergencies fast enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompted the city to invest in more ambulances and paramedics -- steps that didn't satisfy the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn't be managing the department by crisis, and we shouldn't be managing the department by headlines,\" O'Connor said. \"We've been met with silence from City Hall. We can't sit on our hands while these policy failures continue to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the no-confidence vote, morale has probably gone down even more, said Kevin Smith, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbfa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Black Firefighters Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're basically putting Band-Aids on what I perceive is a broken system,\" Smith said. \"People are disenchanted and morale continues to stay low because of our leadership issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Improvements at the department happen at a snail's pace, said Mariano Elias, president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbomberos.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Bomberos\u003c/a>, which represents the city's Latino firefighters. Hayes-White is out of touch with the rank and file and rarely visits firefighters at their stations, Elias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like she's almost hiding behind the walls of headquarters, where firefighters rarely go,\" Elias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The morale still sucks,\" said Mike Whooley, a Fire Department paramedic captain who leads the EMS Officers Association. \"There's a sense of hopelessness that nothing is going to change. We do not have people with any level of vision at our upper administration. In this department we are able to accomplish an excellent mission in spite of the lack of leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are not enough firefighters and paramedics, said Keith Baraka, a firefighter who chairs SF ResQ, which advocates for LGBTQ members of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When their ability to do their job is hampered by inadequate personnel or constant mandatory overtime, it really adds undue stress and strain to a job rife with those things already,\" Baraka said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor London Breed, president of the Board of Supes and a former member of the Fire Commission who has \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/15/s-f-fire-investigation-delays-spark-new-call-for-chiefs-dismissal\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly called for Hayes-White to be replaced\u003c/a>, says she sympathizes with rank-and-file firefighters and their frustrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They want to save lives and when they run up against challenges because folks at the top aren't thinking about the future or thinking about the needs of the members who are out there, they run into a lot of problems and there's a lot of frustration,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes-White has been with the department for more than a quarter of a century -- that last 12 years as chief. When she was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2004, she became the first woman to lead a major U.S. fire department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayes-White says has no plans to step down. She acknowledges some of the department's equipment problems, but described efforts to have her replaced as \"personality conflicts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single biggest problem at the department is its lack of a unified voice, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There can be a confusing message when it becomes personal and there's an assault on one person,\" she said. \"Certainly in a position of leadership, you're not going always please everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief says the department has been in a rebuilding phase since the economic downturn led to budget cuts and staff reductions several years ago. Hayes-White describes her agency as a model for the nation, emphasizing its financial health and the diversity in its ranks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief says she plans to add more firefighters and increase the department's truck and engine fleet and points to improved ambulance response times and a reduction in the department's investigation backlog as proof of progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That backlog, which had reached more than 400 cases, is down to around 200, fire officials say. But, the agency's slow pace in completing probes into fires is expected to be a focal point of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/23/s-f-fire-department-faces-board-of-supervisors-hearing-on-investigation-backlog\" target=\"_blank\">a planned hearing\u003c/a> called by Supervisor David Campos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fire Department is one of San Francisco's largest agencies and it uses a large share of general fund money. Its budget for the current fiscal year is more than $356 million, which is $12 million more than the year before. Hayes-White says more funds will go toward academies to train new firefighters and paramedics, improvement in emergency medical services and investments in new equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee has not wavered -- at least publicly -- in his support of Hayes-White. But he says he wants to know why the firefighter groups and the chief don't get along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need our Fire Department to respond to every single emergency, to be there when we need them, to be as a team,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, for the first time in the department's 150-year history, the Fire Commission conducted a performance evaluation of its chief, prompted by the no-confidence vote and the agency's slow ambulance response times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report was sent to the mayor's office and prompted meetings between the mayor and every member of the commission to discuss Hayes-White, fire commissioner Stephen Nakajo said during a Board of Supervisors Rules Committee hearing last month. Members of the commission told the chief during a closed-door session what they expected her to do to improve her performance, Nakajo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that March 24 rules committee hearing, Supervisor Breed asked Nakajo if the relationship between the chief and the rank and file could be repaired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope so,\" Nakajo answered. \"I pray for it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issues of morale, I hear it, I see some of it, but I also see a lot of support as well,\" Nakajo said, adding that he plans to spend the next several years working to bring the two sides together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission plans to begin its second evaluation of Hayes-White over the next few months, according to Francee Covington, its president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the panel does not plan to release its reports on Hayes-White, Covington said in an interview, adding that repeated calls to replace the chief do not concern her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just like any workplace, sometimes morale is up, and sometimes it's down,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covington said the commission would like to know what Hayes-White's vision is for the department's future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twenty-first century firefighting is very different from firefighting the way it's been done in the past,\" Covington said. \"What is it that she sees on the horizon that we need to plan for?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He said that one of the challenges to getting through the old cases is the steady stream of new ones -- at least 30 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that by next June, he wants the backlog reduced to around 40 or 50 cases, and he wants it to be the department's practice to complete investigations a month after they're begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a very good team in place and the numbers reflect that,\" De Cossio said. \"We are trending in the right direction, those numbers are declining, and I anticipate in the next six months or so we should be pretty close to our target.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said a hearing to look into why investigations are taking so long to complete will probably take place as the Board of Supervisors considers recommendations a city task force unveiled last month that call for\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/09/after-fatal-blazes-s-f-fire-safety-panel-seeks-improved-alarm-systems\" target=\"_blank\"> stricter standards for fire alarms\u003c/a> in older apartment buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force, which includes De Cossio, was created after two fires in the Mission District killed three people and displaced scores of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos said he asked Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White a few weeks ago to provide information to ease residents' concerns that the rise in fire activity in the quickly gentrifying neighborhood was the result of arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fire Department's data show there have been 19 structure fires in the Mission this year, none of which were intentionally set. The department says arson was involved in only one of the more than 60 structure fires in the district over the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos says that report is a good start, but not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have to do a better job of providing information to the public,\" Campos said. \"It's not enough for folks in the Mission for the Fire Department to say, 'Don't worry, it's not arson.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos wants the department to release the investigative results on each of the fires in the neighborhood this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we have seen is at least the appearance of dysfunction in terms of the arson unit,\" Campos said, alluding to complaints about the detachment's previous understaffing. \"The longer you wait to say what the specific cause was, the more questions people have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Attica Bowden, recently appointed to head the arson unit, says the department requires investigations for all of the city's largest blazes -- those in which two or more alarms have been called. For smaller fires, Bowden said, arson investigators are called in only when incident commanders believe a blaze has been intentionally set or they can't determine the cause themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 19 structure fires in the Mission this year, De Cossio says 10 have been the subject of arson investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those probes is still open, concerning a March apartment fire that killed two people at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/12/s-f-supervisor-latest-mission-fire-shows-new-danger-in-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">24th Street and Treat Avenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight of the other larger structure fires this year in the Mission were found to be accidental, De Cossio said. Fire investigators were unable to determine the cause of one other blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators were not called to the scenes of nine smaller structure fires in the Mission this year because incident commanders deemed it unnecessary. De Cossio said he feels assured those incidents were not the result of arson, though he hasn't actually looked at the cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos, meantime, is the second member of the Board of Supervisors to show concern about the backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, board president London Breed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/15/s-f-fire-investigation-delays-spark-new-call-for-chiefs-dismissal\" target=\"_blank\">called for Hayes-White to be replaced\u003c/a> because of the department's failure to close out investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push for more information from the Fire Department has prompted De Cossio to initiate a program in which fire officials plan next year to give presentations to neighborhood groups throughout the city to go over what kind of fire activity has occurred in their areas.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor David Campos plans to call for a hearing to look into why the city's Fire Department still faces a backlog of hundreds of incomplete investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There has to be a better way of these fires being investigated in a more timely fashion,\" Campos said in an interview. \"It's taking too long.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos commented in the wake of a Fire Department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/21/s-f-fire-officials-try-to-quell-concerns-about-blazes-in-mission-district\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> aimed at calming concerns in the Mission District that an increase in the number of structure fires in the neighborhood this year could be the work of arsonists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In discussing the Mission blazes during a Fire Commission meeting last week, Daniel De Cossio, a deputy fire chief and the city's current fire marshal, acknowledged the department is working through a backlog of more than 300 open fire investigations. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/san-francisco-fire-department-faces-four-year-investigation-backlog\" target=\"_blank\">KQED reported\u003c/a> in June that the department's understaffed arson task force had been wrestling with the backlog, with some cases remaining open for four years or more. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/27/s-f-fire-department-removes-chief-arson-investigator\" target=\"_blank\">Subsequently\u003c/a>, the number of open cases grew to more than 400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Cossio said in an interview that now, with more investigators in place, the department has reduced the backlog to 302. He said that one of the challenges to getting through the old cases is the steady stream of new ones -- at least 30 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Fire Department is trying to quell neighborhood concerns that a wave of arson is behind a rising number of fires in the city's Mission District this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department took the unusual step Monday of publishing the number of blazes that caused major property damage in each of the city's Board of Supervisors districts since 2012 -- with a special emphasis on such incidents in the Mission. The report says that over the last four years, investigators have identified just one intentionally set \"property damage fire\" in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last week, the department said, the number of property damage fires this year in supervisorial District 9, made up primarily of the Mission and Bernal Heights, stood at 20. According to the report compiled by Jonathan Baxter, the Fire Department's spokesman, more than 60 fires in the district have caused property damage over the last four years: 10 in 2012, 18 in 2013, 15 in 2014 and the 20 so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Thursday, the city's Fire Commission \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/12/fire-commission-says-sf-mission-fires-arent-arson/\" target=\"_blank\">discussed suspicions\u003c/a> voiced by some in the Mission that some recent fires in the district were deliberately set. According to a count by news site Mission Local, the fires have displaced 130 residents at a time when both rents and the number of evictions in the district are rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Marshal Daniel De Cossio \u003ca href=\"http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2015/12/mission-arson-claims-debated-at-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">told the commission\u003c/a> that the number of fires in the Mission \"fluctuates up and down, but it's relatively consistent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Cossio said investigations have shown that most of the fires in the district over the last several years are not arson-related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've looked at investigations that have been closed out, at the cause of the fires,\" De Cossio said. \"The majority of them are electrical, accidental or at this point undetermined. So as far as knowing whether they're arson or not, I'm not ready to go there yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reply to a question from Commissioner Frances Covington, De Cossio said that the Fire Department continues to work through \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/san-francisco-fire-department-faces-four-year-investigation-backlog\" target=\"_blank\">a backlog of fire investigations\u003c/a> -- 325 citywide, down from 407 earlier in the fall. But he told Covington he didn't have a breakdown for how many of the open investigations are for properties in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of definitive data aside, Covington said she wants to put fears about the origin of fires in the district to rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There seems to be something out there in the larger community where the idea of arson in the Mission is at a nexus with gentrification, with all the other things that are going on,\" said commission member Frances Covington. \"I think we really need to tamp that down as much as we can. Otherwise, if this continues -- and I don't know how it got started -- but we really have to let people know that as far as the Fire Department knows, there is not an active arsonist in the Mission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/jEXO8TUDkc0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>A Look at fires in San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Fire Department's count of property damage fires -- blazes that have caused significant damage to structures -- over the past four years, with the number investigators say were intentionally set.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable width=\"100%\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003cth>Supervisorial district\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Area\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Property damage fires, 2012-15\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Arson fires\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>1\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Richmond\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>56\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>2\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Marina/Presidio\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>54\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>3\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Chinatown/North Beach\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>68\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>4\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>4\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Sunset\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>47\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>5\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Western Addition/Haight\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>72\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>6\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Tenderloin/SOMA\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>141\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>7\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>West Portal/Lake Merced\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>61\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>8\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Castro/Noe Valley\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>75\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>6\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>9\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mission/Bernal\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>68\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>10\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Bayview/Potrero\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>153\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>11\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Excelsior/Crocker Amazon\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>58\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>5\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Citywide, the report released Monday said, there were 853 property damage fires that took place over the last four years. Fifty-two of them were classified as arson. Baxter, the department spokesman, noted that the national average for intentionally set fires is between 9 percent and 10 percent, whereas in San Francisco, it's around 6 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district with the most fires during that snapshot was District 10, which includes Bayview-Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley and Potrero Hill. During that time there were 153 fires, and 12 of them were considered arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District 6, which includes SOMA, the Tenderloin, and Mid-Market, among other neighborhoods, there were 141 property damage blazes and 12 of them were considered intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been two deadly fires in the Mission District this year that led to scrutiny of the Fire Department's inspection and investigation system and a push to tighten regulations for the city's older apartment buildings, where rules regarding fire safety systems like sprinklers are less stringent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/13/tenants-file-two-lawsuits-in-s-f-mission-district-fire-this-week\" target=\"_blank\">blaze at 22nd and Mission\u003c/a> streets killed one man in January. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Fire Department is trying to quell neighborhood concerns that a wave of arson is behind a rising number of fires in the city's Mission District this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department took the unusual step Monday of publishing the number of blazes that caused major property damage in each of the city's Board of Supervisors districts since 2012 -- with a special emphasis on such incidents in the Mission. The report says that over the last four years, investigators have identified just one intentionally set \"property damage fire\" in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last week, the department said, the number of property damage fires this year in supervisorial District 9, made up primarily of the Mission and Bernal Heights, stood at 20. According to the report compiled by Jonathan Baxter, the Fire Department's spokesman, more than 60 fires in the district have caused property damage over the last four years: 10 in 2012, 18 in 2013, 15 in 2014 and the 20 so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Thursday, the city's Fire Commission \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/12/fire-commission-says-sf-mission-fires-arent-arson/\" target=\"_blank\">discussed suspicions\u003c/a> voiced by some in the Mission that some recent fires in the district were deliberately set. According to a count by news site Mission Local, the fires have displaced 130 residents at a time when both rents and the number of evictions in the district are rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Marshal Daniel De Cossio \u003ca href=\"http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2015/12/mission-arson-claims-debated-at-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">told the commission\u003c/a> that the number of fires in the Mission \"fluctuates up and down, but it's relatively consistent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But he told Covington he didn't have a breakdown for how many of the open investigations are for properties in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of definitive data aside, Covington said she wants to put fears about the origin of fires in the district to rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There seems to be something out there in the larger community where the idea of arson in the Mission is at a nexus with gentrification, with all the other things that are going on,\" said commission member Frances Covington. \"I think we really need to tamp that down as much as we can. Otherwise, if this continues -- and I don't know how it got started -- but we really have to let people know that as far as the Fire Department knows, there is not an active arsonist in the Mission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/jEXO8TUDkc0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>A Look at fires in San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Fire Department's count of property damage fires -- blazes that have caused significant damage to structures -- over the past four years, with the number investigators say were intentionally set.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable width=\"100%\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003cth>Supervisorial district\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Area\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Property damage fires, 2012-15\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Arson fires\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>1\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Richmond\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>56\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>2\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Marina/Presidio\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>54\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>3\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Chinatown/North Beach\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>68\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>4\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>4\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Sunset\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>47\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>5\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Western Addition/Haight\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>72\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>6\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Tenderloin/SOMA\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>141\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>7\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>West Portal/Lake Merced\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>61\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>8\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Castro/Noe Valley\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>75\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>6\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>9\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Mission/Bernal\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>68\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>10\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Bayview/Potrero\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>153\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>12\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>11\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Excelsior/Crocker Amazon\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>58\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>5\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Citywide, the report released Monday said, there were 853 property damage fires that took place over the last four years. Fifty-two of them were classified as arson. Baxter, the department spokesman, noted that the national average for intentionally set fires is between 9 percent and 10 percent, whereas in San Francisco, it's around 6 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district with the most fires during that snapshot was District 10, which includes Bayview-Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley and Potrero Hill. During that time there were 153 fires, and 12 of them were considered arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District 6, which includes SOMA, the Tenderloin, and Mid-Market, among other neighborhoods, there were 141 property damage blazes and 12 of them were considered intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been two deadly fires in the Mission District this year that led to scrutiny of the Fire Department's inspection and investigation system and a push to tighten regulations for the city's older apartment buildings, where rules regarding fire safety systems like sprinklers are less stringent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/13/tenants-file-two-lawsuits-in-s-f-mission-district-fire-this-week\" target=\"_blank\">blaze at 22nd and Mission\u003c/a> streets killed one man in January. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White is facing a new call for her removal following \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/san-francisco-fire-department-faces-four-year-investigation-backlog\" target=\"_blank\">recent disclosures\u003c/a> that her department has failed to complete hundreds of fire investigations over the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"HacRp75rSzP2SLWqbSY3ZFT0rmQtECoE\"]London Breed, a past Hayes-White critic and president of the city's Board of Supervisors, says that the chief should be held accountable for the department's shortcomings, including the backlog of 300 open fire investigations. The long delay in completing those inquiries has raised questions about staffing in the department's arson task force, which was reduced during the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, I like the chief. I think she's a great person,\" Breed said in an interview. \"I just don't necessarily agree that she's the best person to run the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed said if she were mayor, \"I would hire a new chief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10603229\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 407px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10603229\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LondonBreed-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed.\" width=\"407\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LondonBreed-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LondonBreed-400x500.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LondonBreed-1440x1801.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LondonBreed-1400x1751.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LondonBreed-1180x1476.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LondonBreed-960x1201.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/LondonBreed.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The power to hire and fire the chief resides with the mayor and Fire Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd like to see a lot more from the mayor and a lot more done from the commission to really hold the chief accountable for doing her job well so the department is moving in the right direction,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has yet to comment on the fire investigations backlog or Breed's remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed, a former fire commissioner,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/25/san-francisco-firefighters-joanne-hayes-white-ed-lee\" target=\"_blank\"> questioned Hayes-White's leadership last year\u003c/a> over the department's slow ambulance response times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Mindy Talmadge, Fire Department spokeswoman, says the chief's not going anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chief Hayes-White has always and, will continue to, maintain her professionalism as she focuses on running the Fire Department,\" Talmdage wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to questions about the investigation backlog and staffing for the arson task force, Talmadge noted Hayes-White led the department through the economic downturn which affected the agency's budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our first priority is to protect lives and property therefore our administrative staffing had to be cut. Staffing at the Bureau of Fire Investigation did take a temporary hit,\" Talmadge wrote. \"She knew it would be temporary and that we had to get through the financially challenging years as best we could, without sacrificing our first priority.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the city's economy now surging, the Fire Department is getting more funding and rebuilding its staffing. Under the new budget, the department will have nine full-time investigators and a new supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those additions should help, said Supervisor Mark Farrell, a supporter of Hayes-White, who chairs the board's Finance and Budget Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cannot make any excuses for what's happened in the past,\" Farrell said in an interview. \"But, I'm encouraged that the budget ... increases staffing significantly.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Currently, the division has seven full-time investigators, though some of them are new and still getting training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michie Wong, the department's recently retired fire marshal, said the arson task force \"is incredibly understaffed.\" She notes that before recession and citywide budget cuts, there were a dozen full-time investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who runs the arson task force has repeatedly told the Fire Commission his unit is understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Capt. John Darmanin said \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/san-francisco-arson-unit-captain-city-woefully-short-of-fire-investigators\" target=\"_blank\">his unit was \"woefully short\" of personnel\u003c/a>. 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That structure did not have sprinklers on its top two floors, two of its exits were blocked and the apartment's smoke alarms did not operate correctly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The recent fires definitely put some pressure on me,\" Wong said in an interview. That pressure, her belief that her division did not have enough inspectors and investigators, and her own personal medical issues prompted her to retire earlier than planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The next fire marshal maybe can have the staffing they need, can build the staffing they need, to run the division as I feel it should be run,\" Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong's two-year tenure as the city's top fire inspections and investigations official came as the department scrambled to keep up with the city's boom in construction. The potential dangers from the increase in construction came to light after a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/11/san-francisco-mission-bay-fire-lessons-learned\" target=\"_blank\">massive fire in Mission Bay\u003c/a> in March 2014 and another\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/11/sf-fire-dept-construction-firm-removed-sprinkler-systems-contrary-to-directive\" target=\"_blank\"> blaze that injured eight workers at the old Renoir Hotel\u003c/a> the following September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Wong as fire marshal the Fire Department \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/16/san-francisco-steps-up-construction-fire-safety-enforcement-wins-key-case\" target=\"_blank\">penalized construction companies\u003c/a> associated with both fires. 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