QUESTION
How do the FDNY and HPD collaborate to prioritize building inspections?
1:51:00
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154 sec
The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) outlines a collaboration with the Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to assess and prioritize building inspections using a risk-based model.
- The FDNY's Rivas program assesses building risks by predicting major fire likelihood and potential for serious injuries or deaths. - Data from HPD, comprising around 5 million entries across 350 categories, informs the FDNY's risk assessment process. - The collaboration ensures high-risk buildings, identified through HPD's data, receive prioritized inspections without compromising existing systems. - Fire companies update their prioritized building list monthly, incorporating HPD's flagged buildings alongside complaints and other inspection data.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:51:00
HPD, you testified that after executive order 12, you have modified your inspection processes to notify FDNY when there are missing fire safety notices.
1:51:10
FDNY that information.
Kevin Woods
1:51:22
So As I was explained before, we HP this Rivas program to identify risky buildings.
1:52:05
So we have different models that will determine of the probability of a major fire in that building and also determine the probability of somebody dying or being seriously injured if there's a fire in building, and that's how the risk is determined.
1:52:20
We have a risk score and we have a ranking.
1:52:23
So We get this information from HPDs.
1:52:29
We it's a tremendous amount of information.
1:52:33
It's broken down into 350 categories, approximately 5,000,000 entries of information, a lot of information.
1:52:40
So what we do not want to do is we don't want to incorporate this information without compromising our existing system.
1:52:48
So when a building does come up that's risky, we will inspect that building.
1:52:52
Again, we inspect at the building level.
1:52:57
Not the apartment level.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:53:00
So when a building that HPD has flagged in their 5,000,000 entries of data and it dovetails with a a building that is ranking high through ribos, then that that building is prioritized for inspection.
Kevin Woods
1:53:13
Yes.
1:53:13
So the units all 350 plus fire companies have a ranking on their computer and it'll refreshes on a monthly basis, and they will get that at the top of their queue.
1:53:28
So to speak.
1:53:29
And of course, that's in addition to complaints which we had last night and other inspections that they do.
1:53:34
Great.