Candidates for San Francisco mayor made their case to first responders at a debate on Thursday.
The five major candidates for San Francisco faced off Thursday in yet another debate. But this time, they were vying not only for votes, but for a key endorsement. 'Firefighters are here for 30 years,' firefighter and paramedic Sam Gebler told CBS News Bay Area. 'We've seen a lot of people rotate through these seats, supervisor seats, mayoral seats, and we've seen the games that get played.
'We will work to get tent encampments off the street every single day that I am in office, to make sure that your lives as firefighters, every single day, once again, is focused on fighting fires, not dealing with tent encampments.' City supervisors Asha Safai and Aaron Peskin, who also serves as president of the Board of Supervisors, vowed to correct the city's drug crisis - something first responders in the room know all too well, having reversed overdoses on a regular basis.
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