 Welcome. Thank you all for being here. The second seminar for today. My name is Paul Lowenthal, Division Chief Fire Marshal for the Santa Rosa Fire Department. Again, thank you and I'm joined for this presentation by Neil Bregman, our Emergency Manager. I also have Deputy Chief Mike McCallum. My mistake for not getting him on this slide. He is on the last slide of the presentation, so I promise he does exist and we have a slide for him to cover as well. So between the three of us, we've got Operations Prevention, Emergency Management all covered here and hopefully give you a lot of good information, but also more importantly, be able to help answer any questions you have towards the very end. So with that, you guys excited? All right. So we're going to dive right in and I will let Neil go for it. Hi everybody. Can you hear me? All right. It's one of my skills. I'm very loud. Neil Bregman, Emergency Manager for the city. I've been here since 2014. If you can hold your questions to the end of the presentation, we have a lot of information and most times the next slide will answer the thing you're going to ask, but we will stay here and give you plenty of time for questions, even if we don't get to it, but let us run through this and we'll make sure we get to all of your information. So when we have a wildfire, myself, my deputy in the back there, Brittany Miller, will be given a request or rather an order by the Fire Department and law to send out an evacuation warning or order. When we do that, we want to make sure you get the message. The way we're going to do that is this first slide here. Know your alerts. By the way, over at our fire department booth, there's copies of this. They're also available online if you'd like to print it out later after today. So I'm going to go through this. The city uses all of these systems depending on the size of the incident and the fire, but we will use them in combination because none of them are perfect and we want to make sure that we reach you in as many ways as possible. So starting at the top here, the first system the city will use is called EAS or emergency alert. This is the one that breaks into television, has the banner across in the middle of prices right and does the test. I'm going back a few years. The test was always breaking in in the middle of the end of prices right, right? This is that one that's on TV. We will use this one when an evacuation is large enough that we're going to evacuate a full zone. We've done that in 2020. We did in fact activate the system. The thing to understand is when we broadcast this, it goes out to the entire Bay Area broadcast area. So from however far north channel two and seven go all the way down to Gilroy or even further. So we're talking to a lot of people. We of course will do that. We just make sure our message is crafted to let the people who need to know know, but this is a very big blast. The next one down is wireless emergency alert. This is the one that everyone is familiar with as the amber alert. If your phone is on and not on stun, not on vibrate and on an iPhone, make sure that little orange button is off. If your phone is not on silent mode, if you're in the geographic area that we need to evacuate, your phone, your smartphone will receive a message and a tone anywhere from 90 to 360 characters telling you what you need to do. 90 to 360 characters is very short. To get all the information in there, we do a couple things. We use evacuation zones. I can't write out this street in that street. So the next slide is we're going to talk about those and make sure you know your evacuation zones. But the key is after you get that message, there are other informational tools on here, but we do have more character limits that I'm going to provide you with more information. The WIA is wake up, something's going on, get more info. The way WIA works is Brittany and I will draw a box on the computer of the area that needs to be evacuated. That message goes to the cell phone providers, to the cell phone towers, and that's where it gets a little tricky. Verizon and AT&T have different rules around what's near a tower, and depending on how technology works, you and I can be standing next to each other. I have an iPhone on AT&T, you have a Verizon Android. One phone will go off, the other one will not. We understand that. That's why we don't use justice technology. WIA is a great technology at blast a large area, but it is not perfect. In order to make sure we're getting the message to you in a timely fashion about the addresses you need, the next one on here in red is the important one, and this is your homework. Sign up for SoCo Alert. SoCo Alert is the city and county's emergency notification system. It is the only one that you will get a phone call on. Phone call, email and text, sign up for SoCo Alert. The difference between SoCo Alert and WIA is that WIA is based upon where the cell towers think your phone is. SoCo Alert, you're going to register and specifically tell us addresses that you want to know about. You're in San Francisco for the day. Where would you like to know about up here that might be somewhere that's being evacuated or in danger? It may be more than just your home. Grandkids' house, kids' house, doggy daycare, middle of the week work. Register every single location that you would want to know about emergency information for on every phone, home phone, cell phone. Absolutely free. If you're not sure if you've registered, it doesn't hurt to go register again. It will not hurt the system. If anything, I prefer you go double register and make sure that you're on there. That is a system that you will get a phone call and email and a text. It is the only one that will do that and is your homework. We also, a few years ago, gave out, moving back up here, about 20,000 NOAA weather radios. In an evacuation, those will tone out inside of your home. If you get one of those, they're about $20, $25 right now. We can help you program it. Very easy to do. I believe there's a few different booths out there where you might actually be able to get a radio for free today. Once you have the radio, if you are hard of hearing, the county actually has attachments for it that's a bed shaker and strobe lights. If you get the radio, we could have that to help you. Here's the thing about the radio. It's activated by the National Weather Service. They will do both evacuations at our request, but all other weather information within the county. The radio sits silent, but if there's any flash flood, any evacuation, anywhere in Sonoma County, that radio hears it and will go off. It will not discriminate, oh, you're in South County. You don't want to know about the evacuation in Cloverdale. So it's a great tool. I suggest you get one. It's redundant in that it doesn't require cell phone or power. It has a battery backup and relies on radio. So it's a great tool for all of you to have. But again, the disadvantage of it is that it's going to broadly sound off at times where maybe you don't want the message. But personally, I prefer to hear about every single thing that's happening in Sonoma County rather than having no information at all. Going down the list here, Paul has to say something. No, before he does the silo siren, I'm going to remind him that we can hear him really well, so just back away from the mic. He likes to make the noise. I make the noise. I do it as a party trick as well. So going down though, back to, remember, wea is wake up, get more information. Neil, where do I get more information? Other than registering for SoCo Alert, our local radio and television stations, the city's website being signed up. Here's your other homework for Civic Ready. Civic Ready is a replacement to Nixle for the city. We still put out all the same information we used to on Nixle. We're just using a different system. I need you to go and register for that one. That one doesn't have a character limit. I can write you a novel on where the shelter is, where the temporary evacuation point is, everything else. But I need you to sign up for that so you know where to get the rest of your information from. And I will say, because I know we'll get questions on us, so we'll try to head off some of them. Civic Ready did replace Nixle for the city limits. We have had a lot of feedback where people are concerned that they're not getting their Nixle anymore. That's a good thing. The reason that you're not getting a text alert if you've signed up for Nixle doesn't mean the system isn't working. It means that we haven't had a need to push an emergency, a message out at that level. We have tested it a couple times. We used the text feature most recently for it to advertise a prescribed fire that we were burning on the west side of Santa Rosa. More is a test to make sure people are getting it. So if you think you're signed up for Civic Ready or aren't sure and you did not get that test, then you're not signed up. We made a decision to switch away from Nixle based on our experiences with it. Santa Rosa pretty much put Nixle on the map. No one knew what it was until the 2017 fires. The issues that we had with it was that Everbridge that owns Nixle started increasing their rates and decreasing their level of service. So it almost became a little bit of a power pool. We also found that the system was unreliable. When the civil unrest was taking place in downtown Santa Rosa, we activated the system and used it to advertise areas that we did not want people to go to, like when the protesters are going up on a highway 101. Some of those messages didn't go out until 12 hours later. Their customer service wasn't great and we just had a couple other issues where we had rogue messages that were going out. We had a grass fire on Stony Point Road and Snowman County Fire District members got their notification up in the Porter Creek area. So based on that we looked at what options were out there to replace it and we went with Civic Ready. It has proven so far to be much more reliable, much better customer service. The few times that we've used it either for an actual alert level text message or what we're typically using it for now is for more community level messaging whether it's a press release from the fire department or the police department. But right now it's been working great and Civic Ready also has a relationship with all the cell providers where we have unlimited texting. With Nixle we had buckets where we had to be cautious of how many texts we send it out. What level of the text do we want to send out which was then making the community anxious because they want more information. With Civic Ready we have unlimited texting so if we have a reason to text we're going to text. Bottom line please sign up for Civic Ready. That is our secondary system for information. We will use the other systems first and you can find that slide other places. We will talk to all the local television and radio stations to make sure they have the information as well. So here when we do use the notification systems for the purposes of wildfire and or pretty much anything else here are the three types of messages you might receive and what we want you to do with them. So there's evacuation order, evacuation warning and shelter in place. Evacuation order means leave now. Oh we forgot to do the high lows on the last slide there. No that's fine. Every SRPDV all fire police vehicles have high low tones. The phrase to remember is if you hear the high low it's time to go. If they're in your neighborhood and you hear that tone you can do the tone for me. If you hear that if you hear the high low it's time to go. That's the best part of my whole speech here. So evacuation order it's time to go. This is not the time to start packing the bag figuring things out it's leave now. Evacuation warning on the other hand is get ready the conditions could change though. You may need to leave in two minutes two hours or never but it's a get ready. Here's the thing if you are a slower moving person need more time feel anxious when the warning comes. Leave when the warning comes. There is no reason that you have to wait for the order. The worst that happens is you took a trip into downtown Santa Rosa for an hour that you didn't need to take. If it eases your concern that you're on the road and you're moving because the warning king and there's a threat in your area go. You do not have to stay and wait for the order. The other type is shelter in place. While we might have that for a wildfire that is more likely to be something like a chemical spill as my colleague calls it the methyl ethyl bad stuff cloud kind of in the air where we'll say please shelter in place do not come out of your house there could be an active shooter or something like that we'll use that. The key with that one is do not call 911 asking when the shelter in place will be lifted. We will send an all clear message until the message comes. Don't swamp 911 asking for that. Okay. So we talked about once you get the message I need you to know because I'm using those very short character limits what I'm talking about the city and county rather than trying to describe what area needs to be evacuated by saying north of river road east of this one has gone to a zone system and so I need you to go whether you live in the city or outside the city and look up your zone make sure you know it and write it down and put it on your refrigerator. We in fact have magnets over at our booth where you can do that and write it down and put on the magnet. So all the information we're providing today is available at ready SR. I want you to go look up your evacuation zone. We have an evacuation look up tool there. You can put your address in Sonoma County has one as well on their website. So whether you live in this city a different city or unincorporated you live in an evacuation zone and should know it. The county ones use usually a four number letter. So you're an EF 46 the city uses actual common names of neighborhoods. That's a difference but make sure you know especially if you live in an EF 28 what the heck that is because that's what's going to come across on your phone and that is not the time to figure out if that's on your phone if you are in that evacuation zone know your evacuation zone ahead of time. So another tool we have is making sure you know your neighborhood travel routes or know your ways out of your neighborhood. So aside from knowing your evacuation zone I want you to know the multiple ways out of your neighborhood. If I were to tell you right now to go to the grocery store you probably from your house you probably immediately know the way you're going to go. What if that's blocked? What if now again I say you should evacuate and go to whatever your plan point of evacuation is at your friend's house. You probably again have a mental map. If that way is blocked what is your next best route. Sometimes the fastest way that you think is not the fastest way to actually get there. It will get there quicker if you go in a different direction. In the in the glass fire everyone went down to highway 12 from Oakmont. They all turned left and came on 12. From up north in Calistoga they came to 12. Lots of traffic. If at Oakmont if people had turned right or in Calistoga that kind of area people got up and over they were to safety in 10 or 15 minutes. Our policy is unless we in the notification say don't go in a particular direction all travel routes are open and available. So go to that website there's maps there that show you all the different ways out of your neighborhood. Aside from the one you know I want you to print that out and put on your refrigerator too. The time to print this out is not when the fire is happening you need to evacuate. Do it ahead of time. Know your ways out of your neighborhood. Know the alternate routes. So now Neil we've made you you made me evacuate. Where the heck am I going to go? I don't know. I do actually first I'd like you to make a plan. Obviously the safest and best thing is if you have the ability to get out of this area to a family member or friend that's somewhere else and the roads are clear get the heck out of here. It will help us the less people we need to help and protect and get supplies to the less burden you're putting on the people here who are still suffering. If you can get somewhere great if you don't have a plan we have a plan for that. You're going to come over to our temporary evacuation point on West 3rd. Anytime we issue an evacuation warning or order we will immediately open this. What is it? It's a big parking lot but we will have city staff there. It's a point of respite for you to take a deep breath. We will also have services like the Red Cross and Salvation Army there. If you just need time to figure out your next steps this is going to be a safe place. We'll again have city staff to help you navigate. If you need the services or if you need to get on your way after that we just know that this is on the west side out of the way hopefully from any fire. This will be open. We will be there to greet you. If you need a shelter we will figure that out as the next step as well but this should be your first stop if you don't have a plan to get out of the area. You want to do this one? Okay evacuation checklist. There's lots of good info out there. On our website we have lots of information on building an evacuation checklist. So you need to do two things for evacuation. You need to have a go bag with you. I'm going to call it your 10 and 10. What are the 10 most important things you will need to rebuild your life and that you cannot replace? Have copies in that go bag. You're leaving you don't know when you're coming back. I want you to plan for at least three days in a really fun shelter. So changes to clothes what do you need? A battery charger, phone cord, prescription medication all of those types of things that you are not coming back now. I want you to have extra of that in your bag to be able to grab and go. We're going to try and feed you and get all the goodies we can at the shelter but it might take a little time so I'd like you to throw in at least a 24-hour supply of food and water. Nothing special but just think about the things you need in the bag. So on our evacuation checklist though we have all sorts of stuff to prepare your family, prepare your pets. We have booths outside with animal services and halter project here. If you need more information preparing your pets. We also have a lot of information and we're probably getting into it more with Paul on preparing the outside of your home and your neighborhood. And again I just wanted to keep these last items in mind. The medications making sure if you have any medical equipment that you keep a copy of the instructions with you. If you need something that needs to be refrigerated what is your backup plan for your insulin? You need to get a little cooler if you're coming to wherever. We will help you but in the interim how are you keeping things that might need to be refrigerated done like that. Please think about your pets and prepare for them as well and have extra stuff for power. And with that I turn over to Paul Lomondall for vegetation management. Thanks Neil. So Neil provided a lot of good information on what to do in the event the emergency happens but we get a lot of questions about what are we doing to prevent the next wildfire here locally. Obviously 2017 was something that we never want to go through. We don't want to see anybody else go through. Unfortunately it seems like it's something that's becoming more and more frequent but from it we've learned a lot and we're doing things a lot differently now. We saw the benefits of a lot of the efforts that we're undergoing take into effect in the 2020 fires. You look at how many people were affected by the Tubbs fire and Nuns fire and the city limits and then look at all the improvements that were made for alerting defensible space home hardening and then look what happened in the 2020 glass fire. You only hear about the fact that we had about 35 or so homes destroyed in the glass fire. Commercial businesses out towards low skillicos and a triplex in Oakmont but what you don't hear about is that there were 1,152 properties in the city limits that were affected by fire and were in the footprint. Why were 1,152 properties in the fire because they were impacted but only 35 or so were actually damaged or destroyed because the systems that we put into place the efforts that people are taking are working. We're able to utilize the systems that Neil talked about get people out of harm's way. We're able to use a lot of the equipment that Mike will talk about in a future in an upcoming slide to get into these neighborhoods and the I'll say the coolest thing that I actually saw if you're going to call it cool in the fire was actually being able to stand in Oakmont with myself and our fire chief Scott Westrop watch the wall of fire come into the community, watch the embers rain down and around the homes and watch the fire basically go out without us having to do anything because it ran out of fuel. People cleared their gutters. People had the zero to five feet of ignition free zone around homes and they really didn't we in many cases didn't have to do anything because the fire literally ran out of fuel and the embers had nothing to ignite. So that was a real test for us. Obviously we want to get to a point where we don't have any structures destroyed or damaged but I'll take what we had to 2020 versus what we obviously unfortunately experienced in 2017. With that there's two websites you've heard about now. There's the srcity.org slash wild ready sr and then the one that brought us here today is the wildfire ready. So we'll get to it on the next slide but the the brains behind what's put a lot of these efforts into motion is our community wildfire protection plan. The cwpp as we refer to it was funded by a grant and it brought together a lot of recommendations that led to this web page. This web page is now kind of the hub and the home of a lot of the information that you'll learn about out here or as new changes and things go into effect you'll see it. So right now we cover our wildland urban interface what it is our cwpp the grant I've had a lot of people asking about the grant we've got a couple federally funded grants right now that are underway. One is to do fuel modifications on specific evacuation routes and another one is to help with defensible space and home hardening. We obviously get lots of questions on red fly warnings and fire weather what is can be done to reduce wildfire risk and then the big one that gets the most attention is the property owners resource library. There's a lot of great links and information on that page. I've had a ton of people asking questions about woodchips and bark. We've got a woodchip bark study on there so it really has served as a landing page for a lot of very useful information. Yes it's Santa Rosa's website but regardless of whether you live in the city or not there's so much information that is shared by whether it's us Sonoma County Fire District Cal Fire. We try and share similar messages some of it's just tailored a little bit to us but overall it's a great resource. Our weed abatement program that's currently under underway right now. The weed abatement program takes place during our more high-risk fire season here locally where we're inspecting all properties within our wildland urban interface and all the vacant lots across the entire city. When all is said and done our staff will conduct roughly 13,000 inspections which is clearly a lot but it's what we do and we've seen the benefits of the weed abatement program during the glass fire or whether it's a grass fire that we've had recently or in the last couple years where burn three five eight acres and the weed abatement program kicks in hits a break or runs out of fuel so it's been a very beneficial program and then most recently is our pile burning. We never used to allow burning like you would typically see in the county and unincorporated areas until recently so we have two type of burnings now that are we're promoting. One is we will now allow pile burning in the city limits but on specific parcels typically they're going to be on parcels over five acres in size and in our wildland urban interface and they're designed to help promote fuel reduction in areas that are typically inaccessible and would be cost prohibitive for a lot of people to do the modification so allowing them to burn in some of those specific cases helps make us all safer. The other thing that we're doing is actually doing prescribed fire across our community now which is something that we never used to do historically in the city. We did our first one last year on Old Redwood Highway next to the old Fountain Grove Inn. We did one a couple weeks ago near Youth Community Park and we plan to do additional burns between us and Cal Fire between essentially where the Fountain Grove Inn used to be and Mark West Springs Road. In some cases we'll probably work with Snowman County Fire District but the goal is to treat that area to prevent future fires from spreading up the hill or spreading down the hill into the valley floor. We're unfortunately seeing a change in our ecology in Fountain Grove and in our hillside burn scars where some areas are actually believe they're not unfortunately worse today than they were in 2017. Areas that used to be beautiful oak grass woodlands have now been replaced with Scotch Broom, French Broom and a lot of other really invasive species a lot of the dead and downed fuels so the burning is going to become critical where it's appropriate to keep our community safer. So the CWPP is a five-year plan. We approved it literally two weeks before the glass fire hit the city of Santa Rosa. We presented it to council. The plan actually identified the greatest risk to city of Santa Rosa was the exact area that burned in the glass fire literally two weeks after we presented it but it outlines nine objectives and 46 actionable items that cover everything from improving evacuation routes to structural hardening, outreach education. We are presenting our updates on that plan every year to council and we plan to put a new plan into effect at the five-year mark so it truly is serving as a roadmap to make our community safer and we're seeing the benefits of it actually pay off. So we've heard lots of questions. What is our wooey? So our wooey right now just for kind of getting everybody caught up. So this is 101, this is 12. This is generally what we refer to as our Bennett Valley wooey which is in between Summer Brookfield Road and Annadale State Park. We have our Oakmont wooey in between Highway 12 and then this is Oakmont Drive. So it's in between essentially Oakmont Dwipe Highway 12 and Annadale State Park. We have our mountain hop we refer to kind of our mountain hop wooey and then our fountain bro Montecito wooey which this is Rush Creek Road. The Flamingo is right here. The wooey has been in effect in our city since officially recorded and this current mapping since about 2008. Within our wooey are state cal fire, very high fire hazard severity zones. So the state cal fire typically maps areas outside of the wooey but they also map areas inside of our own wooey. So there's pieces of congro and oakmont that even though they're in the city limits of Santa Rosa, Cal Fire under their original maps from 2007 identifies areas of that they consider high risk. A lot is changing right now. So for those of you that follow it, Cal Fire released their maps for the state responsibility where areas that used to be high risk around the city are now moderate risk or a lower risk. Typically up in the areas, believe it or not, that have burned already areas that are outside of the burn scars. So like this is Hall. This is where I'm at. Hall and Heights over here off of Benna Valley Road. Cal Fire has actually increased the level of risk in that area. So we're likely going to have to change our wooey to catch up with what the state feels is more of a high risk. So in the coming years, you may actually see not just our wooey that you previously saw here, but you may actually see some additional ones down on the south side of Santa Rosa off pedal in the hill road and around the fairgrounds. We also expect to see the areas that were in the very high fire hazard severity zone by Cal Fire, which affects people's insurance. It affects a lot of things. That were in Skyhawk and Sound Grove probably come out of it and no longer be in the state's definition of a very high fires, very risk. Now you're still going to have to comply with defensible space and a lot of things that you have to do. But on the flip side, either maybe some benefits to your insurance, believe it or not. It's a very can be very confusing, but we're committed to as this rolls out and as there's changes, we will be doing a lot of outreach and a lot of education to our community. So we got Mike McCallum, one of our deputy chiefs who cover some of the operational improvements that are also helping make Santa Rosa a lot safer. And then after Mike, we are here for your questions. So as we've kind of been talking about throughout both of Neil and Paul's presentation since 2017, we've made several improvements and enhancements to the way we respond to fires both in Santa Rosa and around the state and fires that are impacting us, fires that can burn into Santa Rosa and affect us. So staffing, what are we doing? So during red flag warnings, we now have much better communication with our partners at the weather service throughout the county. We have operational meetings every Monday morning where all of the county partners, city partners are all on one phone call. We discuss and talk about the potentials from the weather that could be coming in, different things that are going on. So we're able to kind of predict and plan and prepare for those potential events like we had in 2017, 2020. And we'll upstaff for those. So when we get a declared red flag warning, we will actually throughout the county increase our staffing and preparedness to be able to respond to wildfires. We'll prepare with what's called strike teams. So five engines in a liter, and they'll be strategically located throughout the county to be able to hopefully get on those small fires, keep them small and keep them from becoming those larger impacting fires, configurations that we've seen that then impact entire communities. So we prepare for that. We get ready and we have that staffing on rather than calling them in after the fact. Emergency recall of employees. We have now plans in place, and we always really have, but it's much more of a robust system now. So when there is an incident that's happening, we have the ability to call all employees in. We all carry our cell phones all the time now, right? So employees are aware of the red flag warnings much earlier or aware of the potential impacts of whatever weather or other fires around the county or state that are happening. They'll be, everybody's well informed now. There's, there's no more reason or excuse to not know what's going on. Just like we hope the entire community is informed, all of our employees are informed. And when there's that incident, they're ready and able to respond back to town immediately. Staff fire engines, all of our fire engines, all of our reserve equipment, the entire city is an essentially an emergency worker. We will staff every piece of equipment just as we did in the Tubbs Fire, the Glass Fire, Kincaid Fire. We'll have firefighters in every piece of equipment going out and, and doing everything they can do to lessen the impact of whatever emergency is coming in. Equipment. So several improvements since 2017. We realized as a department we needed to improve our response to wildland fire in the wooey areas around and in the city of Santa Rosa. Like we said, many of these incidents have come from outside the city and impacted us, but what are we doing to keep our fires small in town? So since 2017, we've added a significant amount of equipment, specifically wildland equipment. We've bought two additional type three engines, which is a smaller fire engine than what you see normally driving through town. What we staff every day, our structural type engines is what we're normally on, but we've purchased two additional for a total of three type three engines. So we're able to cross staff and get on that equipment, get to the scene of a fire, provide better access, provide better tools and provide better abilities for us to fight the wildland fires specifically versus those type one engines. We've purchased two additional type six engines, which is even a smaller stature engine, basically like a utility type pickup truck with firefighting equipment. So we're able to get into the hard to access areas along the creeks and people's kind of the ranch lands or rural properties around town. We're able to provide much better access. We have two more of those on order, which should be here by the end of the year. Personal protective equipment. So we've outfitted all of our firefighters with with brand new equipment that is able to help them be able to to work better in the environment of a wildland fire. It's it breeds better. It's cooler. They're able to work longer, harder hours, but still have the highest level of thermal protection to be able to fight the fire. So just state of the art equipment. We've added new portable radios. Every firefighter in the city of Santa Rosa has their own assigned personal radio. So when we do that emergency recall, they can immediately turn on their portable radio and be informed and have that situational awareness to know exactly where they need to go, what's going on, and what the situation is that they're encountering. As far as I know, we're the only fire department in the state that assigns a personal radio to each firefighter. Improvement to fleets. We actually already kind of talked about this with the improvements with the new type threes and type sixes. So those wildland engines are UTV program. We just started in the last year, we were awarded a grant through Homeland Security and through the county to develop a UTV program. So it's a side by side and even smaller vehicle. So it's a utility vehicle. It has the ability to put a skid mounted pump. So a pump that will actually slide into the pickup truck bed, so to speak, on this little small vehicle. And then it can access even the tighter places. So areas we envision using that are many of the parks such as Anadale. It's stationed in Oakmont at our station seven. And the direction and policy is when there's an incident in the park, the Oakmont crew, if appropriate to do so will actually staff that vehicle and can be into the park now and have access to the all areas of Anadale within minutes. So again, the whole goal is to try to keep those fires small, put the fire out, keep to less than one acre if possible and stop those large incidents from happening. Command vehicles, we're in the process of purchasing all new command vehicles for our lion battalions. The goal is to have pickup truck style command vehicles. Now a lot of us drive SUV utility type vehicles and the reason for pickup trucks is again, just to enhance that ability to respond kind of into the wildland areas, get that access, provide additional tools and equipment to the crews that are working, just all around enhance our ability to respond to those fires and get there and keep them small. So overall, since 2017, we've made a lot of great improvements operationally. We're just trying to improve our ability to respond to these fires, again, keep them small as we can and hopefully not have those fires impact the community like we've had over the last several years. Now, hopefully we got through a lot of information and a really short period of time. And before we get to questions, one thing I do want to clarify is the talk about the two grants that we had that are funding the evacuation route and the home hardening. A third grant that we have actually came through HCD so housing community development through the state's program. It actually provided us with an additional half million dollars and part of that money is for education outreach. So this event is based on is in part because of that grant. So we're really doing everything we can to seek funding to put programs on and to improve our community's overall preparedness and resiliency here locally.