 It takes all kinds of different pieces of the puzzle to make it work. Everybody's got a little bit different responsibility and authority and capabilities. And so we have to be able to get together early, train so that we know what the expectations are and our specific role and responsibilities and then function together so that we can provide a safe environment for everybody who's attending. Bringing together nearly two dozen world leaders, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit is one of the biggest political events in San Francisco in decades. Cal OES works with local, state and federal partners to ensure the safety of event participants and the surrounding communities. If we want to ensure the safety of the San Franciscans that are here as well as the responders along with all the dignitaries that are here on site, it's critically important that we coordinate well with our Secret Service partners and our FBI partners and all the other agencies that are here in support of this event. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC Summit was designated as a national special security event requiring coordination between local, state and federal partners. Cal OES led the effort to maintain a secure perimeter around the event location, ensuring the safety of event participants and the surrounding communities, including mobilizing hazardous materials units that were available to respond if needed. As we have to maintain the safety of the APEC conference itself, so we have units that can respond to any type of incident, whether it be WMD or HAZMAT incident within the NSSE that is APEC. Cal OES is a mutual aid coordinator for the state of California, it's vitally important that we're here to make sure that those assets that they need for this event are here. Cal OES brought local government HAZMAT vehicles from Fresno, the city of Los Angeles, and the city of San Diego to San Francisco, ready to supplement local response if needed. No one can do it all and you know, so they have to, somebody has to do the security, somebody has to do the fire part of it and the specialized HAZMAT part is a whole different thing, so we have to be coordinated with them if they didn't what they need us. In addition, Cal OES worked with both the local police department and California Highway Patrol on event communications. It's important for us to work with our partners in order to be able to keep the community safe so that all of our mutual aid partners are able to talk to one another and communicate during APEC. Of course it's a high-level event and everybody needs to be able to talk one to the other when we've got people coming in, mutual aid support coming in from different counties and different areas of the state and so this allows us to be able to accomplish that. Working across multiple disciplines was vital to ensuring a safe event. Without that proper coordination, it shouldn't have occurred here. It could be disastrous, not just for the citizens of San Francisco but for the state of California. Through Cal OES-led coordination between local, state, and federal partners, the event went off without any major incidents. To see more from us, visit our website news.caloes.ca.gov and follow us on all our social media platforms.