¡Venga! Empanadas Vehicle Blocks SF Fire Dept Access to Water Supply Pipes. Why ?

Note:  See latest August 16th, 2017 Update at bottom of page about:    

     How To Park Safely and about for profit bikers, space takers, uber, robot car crashes, app delivery drivers, public safety and #NeverAdopters who understand "1984" and don't want corporate top down, high tech schemes that harm us all.

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**  WED JULY 9, 2017  ** UPDATE:   ¡Venga! Empanadas' Owner's Vehicle Blocks SFFD Water Supply Access Daily & During Today's SF Fire Department Emergency Response, at their cafe's location. 

SFFD Emergency Call 400 Blk Valencia

     This morning, during our daily coffee meeting outside on the sidewalk in front of Ferguson's Plumbing and Showroom, at 435 Valencia Street in the Mission District,  we saw SF Fire Department trucks pull up in front of Venga Empanadas parklet and the residential hotel next door. 

SFFD at Venga Empanadas

    Apparently they were responding to some emergency in the Hotel or Alley next door.  

     We weren't sure why they were they but the brave fire fighters have their gear on and went fast down the alley less two doors down from where we were standing,  next to the fire department water supply pipes.    

      We noticed there was fresh paint and miniature Red Cones on the curb which was being re-painted by SFMTA.  

SFFD Red Zones & Water Supply Pipes 

    We looked above the cone and newly painted red zone and saw a car illegally parked there. 

     We've seen that same car parked there nearly every day for the past year or so,  but never really paid any attention to it,   until this incident today with the Fire Department in action, responding to an emergency call.   

    The SFFD didn't need access to the water supply today, but now we have a better understanding of why there are small Red Fire Zone painted on curbs.    Now we see, that its necessary to have those tiny areas clear of obstacles at all times, to fight fires and save lives.  

SFFD Fire water Supply

1 of 2 Red Zones Repainted

       At the same time, we noticed that a car was blocking the SFFD Access Right-Of-Way to the SFFD Water Supply Pipes on the wall of Ferguson's Plumbing. 

   It's  the same spot we stand at every day -- where we were drinking our coffee, listening to the radio,  but today we learned more about why there are little strips of red zone no parking spots all over the city.

       Lo and behold,  it was the Venga Empanada Owners car, parked illegally in an SFMTA Red Zone, blocking access to the Fire Department Water Supply.   

Venga Empanadas Decal In Window

Freshly Re-Painted SFFD Red Zone

 Imagine if there was a big fire at Ferguson's Plumbing Showroom or Samovar Tea;   Venga Empanadas or the Residential SRO Hotel next door and the S.F.F.D. needed to run hoses and equipment across the street and sidewalk to connect them to the high pressure water supply lines -- being blocked.

    It would be tragically ironic if the blocking of access to the SFFD Water Supply pipes, daily,  by the Owner or Staff of Venga Cafe themselves were to lead to more property damage or loss of life during emergencies due to obstacles & delays to the fire fighter's response, at their own cafe or the adjacent stores and hotel residents next door to them.

END JULY 9, 2017 UPDATE

     
   **UPDATE:   WED AUGUST 16, 2017  -  Vehicle Parked Safely in Same Spot without Blocking Fire Department Water Supplies: 

   This August 16th Update has been moved to its own posting page here: 

    It combines follow up on this story and new information about how unsafe food delivery; ride share; robot vehicle and bikers create hazards for us all on our own streets and sidewalks.   They all drive as if they are above the law and above respecting the space and safety of others in our community.   They avoid all the real costs of doing business that the rest of us pay for because we follow the laws and these renegade operators DO NOT.    We pay for using meters and don't idle our engines like they do.   We don't run lights or cut off pedestrians or park blocking red zones or on sidewalks because it's wrong, unsafe and illegal to do so.

     This linked update includes info on $78 Million Dollar Awarded in wrongful death suit involving the Domino's Pizza Delivery Time Guarantee model that pressured drivers into speeding and driving recklessly to meet corporate goals that killed . 
innocent people, from coast to coast.

     Also includes pics and links to stories of robot cars crashing and information about liability issues for drivers who work for these 'new' for profit ride share and delivery systems.

     These renegade foreign owned (not from here) for mega-profit corporations and their stressed out, underpaid drivers and robot machines cause us so many problems and steal local spaces and cash flows from local communities to fund the lifestyles of the elite and their investors in New York and London City.... 

   Click on the link below to continue reading.


     https://sfawareness.blogspot.com/2017/08/about-unsafe-uber-cruise-food-delivery.html

 

 END OF UPDATE