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SFFD highlights recruitment surge, training and rising fleet costs in monthly report
Summary
Chief Janine Nicholson and Deputy Chief Shane Kayaloha told the Fire Commission the department is convening interagency meetings on ambulance offload problems, preparing a late-June academy class after hundreds of applicants, expanding training partnerships and grappling with rising equipment and fleet replacement costs.
The San Francisco Fire Department told its Fire Commission on Feb. 28 that it is pressing interagency partners for help with ambulance patient offload times and is moving ahead with large recruitment and training efforts while managing growing fleet and infrastructure costs.
Chief Janine Nicholson said the department has been meeting with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and other partners to assess projects that affect emergency response and has asked to participate in meetings led by hospitals and the mayors office on ambulance-patient offload time, or APOT. She also said the department is working with the Human Rights Commission and several historically Black colleges…
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