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Office of Wildfire Preparedness updates supervisors on defensible‑space push, CWPP and biomass studies
Summary
Tom Meyer, the county wildfire program manager, told the Board the county is building defensible-space inspections, expanding Firewise communities, completing a West Slope Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) and pursuing biomass-feasibility work funded by federal and BLM grants.
Tom Meyer, program manager for El Dorado County’s Office of Wildfire Preparedness and Resilience, briefed the Board Feb. 5 on progress toward defensible‑space inspections, a completed grant-awarded mapping tool, and development of a countywide West Slope Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP).
Meyer said the office has built a coordinated defensible-space program with local fire districts and Fire…
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