An inter-agency group studying issues of fire safety met today for the final time in order to present their findings to the Board of Supervisors. The Emergency Interagency Fire Safety Task Force, consisting of representatives from the Department of Building Inspection, the Fire Department, the Department of Public Health, and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, was tasked by the Board this past summer to make fire-safety improvement recommendations for multi-use and multi-unit residential buildings around the city.

At this morning's meeting, the group was expected to recommend that the BOS pass legislation mandating the improvement of residential fire alarms around the city.

In light of recent tragically fatal fires, the group seeks to change the standard of fire alarms so that they are loud enough to wake sleeping residents — even when placed in hallways outside of rooms.

Which: how is that not already a thing?

KQED News reports that this is called the "pillow test," and means that the alarm is at least 75 decibels loud.

“In principle, it’d be a leap forward in occupant life safety, as it gets us closer to the standards of modern construction in some older structures,” Armin Wolski, a fire protection engineer, told KQED.

It is not expected that the group will call for sprinkler systems to be added to older buildings, notes KQED, as property owners claimed such upgrades would result in tenant displacement.

Any recommendations made to the Board are merely that — recommendations. If we are to see any safety improvements result from the work of this group, a group which has been studying this issue in depth since July, the Board of Supervisors must create and enact legislation that supports the recommendations made.

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