Incident Date:
Saturday, April 5th, 2014
The next community meeting at Ingleside Station will be held on April 15, 2014. Thank you.
Walk to Work Day is Friday, April 11!!!
Please join Walk San Francisco, our members, and your new friends on the sidewalk to celebrate walking!
· Walk at least 15 minutes of your trip
· Check out the Employer Toolkit to learn more about how you can get your workplace walking on 4/11
· Stop by a hub on 4/11 to get rewarded for walking
· Encourage your colleagues to walk (go foot beats!) and compete for the *Golden Millipede Award* for the most employees participating (email your tally by noon, April 11 to info@walksf.org)
· Use the #Walk2Work hash tag to compete in the “Longest Walking Commute,” “Most Interesting Sight,” and “Best Shoe Bling” contests
· Customize and share the sample newsletter and social media language attached
Last, please help spread the word to your stations, and community! We have plenty of posters that we're happy to provide you with--just let me or Natalie know and we'll coordinate with you.
Don't hesitate to contact me or Natalie if you have any questions.
See you on the 11th!
Nicole
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Nicole Schneider
Executive Director
995 Market St., Ste. 1450, San Francisco, CA 94103
415.431.9255 | walksf.org
415.431.9255 | walksf.org
Support the call for a Vision Zero goal to eliminate ALL traffic deaths in 10 years - join or renew as a Walk SF member today.
Rules and pointers for pedestrians and drivers
Pay attention to reduce your chances of being in an accident
The most important safety tip to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities is to pay attention. You can significantly reduce your chances of being in a collision with a motor vehicle by obeying traffic rules and being aware of dangers posed by cars in your vicinity. Make eye contact with drivers if possible and make sure that they can see you.
Both drivers and pedestrians have certain safety responsibilities that depend on both circumstances and common sense.
Drivers must:
- Yield to pedestrians when crossing a sidewalk or entering an alley or driveway
- Yield to pedestrians who have started crossing at an intersection or crosswalk on a "walk" signal or a green light, if there is no walk signal
- Yield to pedestrians who are crossing the highway within a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection where there are no traffic lights or control signals
- Not overtake and pass any vehicle that stops at an intersection or crosswalk to permit a pedestrian or bicyclist to cross the roadway safely
Pedestrians must:
- Yield to drivers when crossing a road where there is no intersection or crosswalk or where the pedestrian does not have a green or "walk" signal and where vehicles have a green signal
- Not suddenly move into the path of a closely approaching vehicle that does not have sufficient time to yield for a pedestrian
- Walk on and along the left side of a highway when not walking on a sidewalk. Note: This law does not apply to bicycles. Bicycles operate under the same laws as other legal vehicles on the road and should always stay on the right side of the road.
Crime Alert: A grandmother who lives in the Bernal Heights Area was burglarized a couple days ago. Apparently, a man came to her door, saying he worked for PG&E and said he was working on a water line and needed to take some measurements in her back yard. The grandmother said no, but the subject persisted and finally convinced her to do so. The grandmother led him through her house to the backyard where he did in fact take some “measurements”. The grandmother stayed in the backyard watching what was being done. During this time, while out in the backyard, the subject was talking with someone via a walkie- talkie. After a short while the subject left and that’s when she noticed that her bedroom had been ransacked (drawers open and clothes thrown about) and found that all of her cash was missing. Clearly someone (an accomplice) followed the subject into her house when both the subject and the grandmother were in the backyard. Be aware and use caution, if someone claiming to be a PG&E worker wants to enter your home, and this was not scheduled by you, it should raise a RED flag. Ask to see some kind of official identification and/or call PG&E and see if this person does in fact work for the company. If the person can’t prove any of the above then call the police immediately. If you know an elderly person that lives alone, maybe a friend or family member, alert them to this scam and inform them not to let anyone into their house.
The San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) is free training from the San Francisco Fire Department in how to help yourself and your neighbors prepare for and respond to a disaster by working together. The 20-hour training, taught by First Responders, includes personal preparedness, light search and rescue, disaster medicine, shutting off your utilities, and how to participate as a member of a neighborhood response team. NERT also offers continuing training for graduates and activities that support building robust neighborhood teams. For more information, visit the NERT website at http://sfgov.org//sffdnert, or contact Lt. Erica Arteseros at (415)970-2022 or sffdnert@sfgov.org
Ingleside District Nert Training
Lick Wilmerding HS
755 Ocean Ave
March 18, 6:30-10:00p: Class 1
March 25, 6:30-10:00p: Class 2
April 1, 6:30-9:30p: Class 3
April 8, 6:30p-10:00p: Class 4
school closed April 15
April 22, 6:30p-9:30p: Class 5
755 Ocean Ave
March 18, 6:30-10:00p: Class 1
March 25, 6:30-10:00p: Class 2
April 1, 6:30-9:30p: Class 3
April 8, 6:30p-10:00p: Class 4
school closed April 15
April 22, 6:30p-9:30p: Class 5
April 29, 6:30p-10:00p: Class 6
Are you someone who is interested in disaster preparedness and wants to help out your community while working hand in hand with law enforcement? Then the ALERT program is for you!
What is the A.L.E.R.T. Program?
The San Francisco Police Department has developed a volunteer citizen disaster preparedness program. The Auxiliary Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) is modeled after and works in partnership with the San Francisco Fire Department's Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT). The ALERT program will train members of the public to assist law enforcement in essential tasks after a major disaster. Such tasks may include: traffic control, foot patrol of business and residential areas, and reporting criminal activity. Volunteers must be at least 16 years of age and live, work, or attend high school in San Francisco.
Three steps to becoming an
A.L.E.R.T. volunteer:
1. Complete NERT training and receive certification. To register for NERT training courses please visit www.sfgov.org/sfnert
2. Once NERT certified, forward a copy of your NERT ID card to the ALERT program. sfpdalert@sfov.org
3. After clearing a basic background check the individual is eligible to register for ALERT training.
The next training class has been scheduled for May 3rd, 2014, from 8:00am – 5:00pm. This class will be held at the San Francisco Police Academy, in the parking lot bungalow.
Arrests:
12:06am 3300 Blk Mission Open Container
Ingleside Officers Chew and Lustenberger investigated a fight possibly involving a firearm. When the officers arrived on scene two of the combatants had fled the scene in a red Nissan sedan. While other Ingleside units interviewed witnesses, Lustenberger and Chew journeyed to the 1500 block of Palou Avenue where the Nissan was registered. As luck would have it, the officers found the car double parked in front of the home on that block. The officers interviewed both occupants of the vehicle and searched it but did not find any firearms in the car. However, they did find an open beer container and the driver was cited and then released for that violation. Report number: 140281663
Serious Incidents:
No Incidents to Report.
Vehicle and Other Incidents:
5:50am Brunswick/Guttenberg Hit and Run
5:50am 500 Blk Brunswick Recovered Vehicle
6:20am Unit Blk Justin Recovered Vehicle
8:02am Diamond Heights/Sussex Recovered Vehicle
8:30am 100 Blk Ocean Stolen Vehicle
8:30am 200 Blk Athens Stolen Vehicle
11:03am 400 Blk Precita Recovered Vehicle
1:02pm 200 Blk Amazon Warrant Arrest
1:30pm 200 Blk Brookdale Dog Bite
1:30pm 300 Blk 30th Burglary
2:10pm Lippard/Bosworth Hit and Run
5:00pm Unit Blk Calgary Stolen Vehicle
5:00pm Unit Blk Wool Stolen Vehicle
6:00pm 500 Blk Monterey Theft
9:18pm 800 Blk Moscow Warrant Arrest
10:00pm Unit Blk Tioga Stolen Vehicle
11:20pm 200 Blk Oneida Theft from Vehicle
Burglaries with suspect description:
No Incidents to Report.
