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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -2 August 10, 2018 <br />CHR. ADAMS: If you wouldn't mind, I'd be interested in that. I just think that <br />we do so much work. It seems like we're done and we're turning around and <br />doing it again. Anyway, I would appreciate a little bit of a look at that from your <br />perspective. <br />Any other questions or comments? Okay, great. Director, thank you so much for <br />being here. <br />MS. SAKO: Thank you. <br />f. Hawai`i Fire Department — Fire Chief; Darren Rosario <br />CHR. ADAMS: Next, Chief Rosario from the Fire Department. <br />(Note: At this time, Fire Chief Darren Rosario and Deputy Fire Chief <br />Lance Uchida came forward to address the members of the Cormnission.) <br />CHR. ADAMS: Please introduce yourselves and then provide your presentation. <br />Thank you for being here. <br />CHIEF ROSARIO: Good afternoon, Chairman, members of the Commission. <br />Thank you for your service and your time being here today. I'm Darren Rosario, <br />the Fire Chief for the Hawai`i Fire Department, and I'd like to introduce to you <br />my Deputy Fire Chief. <br />DEP. CHIEF UCHIDA: Good afternoon everyone. Lance Uchida with the <br />Hawai`i Fire Department. I just got started about three weeks ago. So I'm <br />learning. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Congratulations. <br />CHIEF ROSARIO: It's going to be a brief presentation on the overview of the <br />Hawai`i Fire Department. A very complex department, but with our time <br />constraints, I just really narrowed it down. I will be available at any time if <br />anyone has any further questions of the department as we go forward. <br />(Note: At this time, Chief Rosario provided a PowerPoint presentation to <br />the members of the Commission. A copy of the presentation is made a <br />part of the record. See Commission Communication No. 1.3.) <br />CHIEF ROSARIO: So basically, our Hawai`i Fire Department, we operate in a <br />paramilitary organizational structure, which basically means that we follow the <br />military pattern of discipline. There's a chain of command that maintains order <br />under fire. Then in terms of our organization, very similar to the military where <br />Page 21 <br />