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Fire chief details wildland deployments, training and new apparatus; K-9 team sent to Hawaii
Summary
Chief Joanne Hayes White updated the commission on academy graduations, strike-team deployments to the Mendocino Complex and Mill Creek fires, incoming apparatus, and a K-9 deployment to Hawaii ahead of Hurricane Lane; commissioners asked for more operational briefings on strike-team activities.
Chief Joanne Hayes White presented a multi-part operational report on staffing, deployments and facilities for the San Francisco Fire Department.
Hayes White said the department recently graduated a class of 49 and is planning a 54-member class in early 2019 plus a fall "bump up" paramedic class of about 30, describing the training pipeline that moves EMTs and firefighters toward paramedic certification. "We graduated a class of 49," she said, and described the composition and planned future classes.
On mutual-aid deployments, the chief said strike teams were active through late July and early August. "We deployed a strike team…
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