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City staff, fire authority and natural areas outline urban wildfire readiness and homeowner steps
Summary
Fort Collins staff and Poudre Fire Authority briefed council on wildfire risk and mitigation including home ignition-zone assessments, hazard-mitigation planning, fuel management in Natural Areas, and city restrictions on irrigation-ditch burning during red-flag days.
Fort Collins officials told City Council on July 15 that the city and regional partners are actively addressing wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface through planning, education and targeted fuel-mitigation activities.
Dennis Day, program manager for emergency preparedness, said the city participates in a multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan (the 2021 plan) and will begin a 2026 update this fall. He said Fort Collins is ranked as a medium wildfire hazard in the plan because of its wildland-urban interface areas but benefits from proactive mitigation and interagency planning.
Derek Bergston, representing Poudre Fire Authority operations while Chief Butler was deployed, described the community wildfire…
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