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General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) in Cazadero
Story by Mike Nicholls During and following the Walbridge Fire in 2020. Cazadero had no 911 service for days – our telephone landline provider, Frontier Communications experienced a central office back-up battery failure, Comcast/Xfinity failed once their battery...
“Intersection of Fire and Flood” – OAEC’s Brock Dolman Featured on NBC News
Check out this great clip from NBC news about Occidental Art & Ecology Center’s 80-acre wildlands management! As we thin and limb our forests and landscapes towards fire fuels reduction, let us remember that as Brock says, “Slash ain’t trash – it’s beneficial...
How to Set Up a FREE Risk Assessment of Your Home
From Permit Sonoma Fire Prevention: Take a critical step to reduce wildfire risks to your home by scheduling your FREE structure risk assessment today! Our home hardening contractors will identify the highest risks to your home and provide you with a personalized list...
National Wildfire Coordinating Group Standards for Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface
Published by National Wildfire Coordinating Group, this publication establishes the standards for understanding and implementation of concepts, issues, and best practices to increase community fire adaptation. This publication is designed to: • Support common...
Fall 2023 Cal Fire Assessment Expansion
Cal Fire has initiated a training of people outside their organization to help expand the ease with which we can have our properties assessed. Assessments help us understand our highest risks and how to reduce them—empowering us to make our homes more fire-resilient,...
Book Recommendation: The Last Fire Season – A Personal and Pyronatural History
In 2020, a dry lightning storm that ignited hundreds of simultaneous wildfires across the West and kicked off the worst fire season on record. Martin, along with thousands of other Californians, evacuated her home in the midst of a pandemic. The Last Fire Season by...