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Fire mutual aid, soft-story retrofits and heat resilience featured at Disaster Council

San Francisco Disaster Council · October 1, 2021
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The city reported ongoing wildfire mutual-aid deployments and staffing challenges, and the chief resilience officer updated the council that the soft-story retrofit deadline passed (affecting about 5,000 buildings and ~112,000 residents) with high permit-submission rates; the city also outlined a concrete-buildings program and a year-long heat and air-quality resilience planning effort.

San Francisco officials reported continued deployments to statewide wildfires, an update on mutual-aid staffing and planned resilience investments including seismic retrofits and a new heat-action planning process.

Director Carroll said San Francisco has been sending staff to support neighboring counties during wildfire season and noted the Fire Department, Sheriff's Office and Animal Care & Control have all contributed personnel. "Since late August, San Francisco Fire…

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