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Supervisors hear city plans for wildfire season: shelters, outreach and heat resilience work underway
Summary
A multi-department hearing reviewed San Francisco’s preparations for wildfire smoke and extreme heat, including thresholds for respite-center activation, targeted outreach to vulnerable populations, distribution of portable air cleaners by SFUSD, and a Heat & Air Quality Resilience Project to coordinate long-term interventions.
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee convened a hearing on July 22 to review San Francisco’s plans for the 2021 wildfire season and to assess preparedness for smoke and extreme heat.
Supervisor Matt Haney called the hearing, calling climate-driven wildfire and smoke impacts "one of the greatest health threats" for the city. Department of Public Health presenter Matt Wolf described health impacts—from respiratory and cardiovascular stress to overwhelmed EMS—and said climate change has created recurring, compounding hazards.
Adrienne Bekele of the Department of Emergency Management…
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