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Local Firewise groups describe neighborhood fuel reduction, ask supervisors for support
Summary
Members of the Plumas County Fire Safe Council and local Firewise communities told the Board of Supervisors on July 15 that neighborhood-led fuel reduction, underburns and small infrastructure projects are reducing wildfire risk and said they need the countys help to scale up work and secure grants.
Plumas County Fire Safe Council members and local Firewise community leaders told the Plymouth County Board of Supervisors on July 15 that small, neighbor-led projects have cleared significant hazardous fuels and added local water storage, and they asked the county to consider letters of support and inclusion in strategic planning.
The request came during a 15-minute presentation to the Board of Supervisors in which presenters described limb-thinning, pile burns, underburns and installation of a 7,500-gallon water tank near a small neighborhood to improve local defensibility and firefighting access.
The Old Highway Road Firewise co-coordinator, Sally McGowan, described one early neighborhood project that cleared a 2.5-acre…
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