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Emergency management updates wildfire protection plan and natural hazard mitigation projects
Summary
Emergency management summarized Community Wildfire Protection Plan activity and Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan updates, including creation of Fire Adapted Benton County, local fuel‑reduction and access projects, FEMA flood map updates and county public‑works resilience projects.
Hannah Schafer, mitigation and recovery coordinator in Benton County Emergency Management, updated the board on the county’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) and Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan (NHMP) on Feb. 18.
Fire planning and projects: Schafer said she was hired in late 2023 with grant support from the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s community wildfire risk reduction program. One grant element funded a fuels‑reduction pool and another funded her position to organize county…
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