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Residents and mitigation experts urge Thousand Oaks council to accelerate wildfire prevention work
Summary
Several residents and wildfire mitigation consultants urged the City Council to form a fire‑safe umbrella organization, expand resident education and accelerate parcel‑level mitigation after updated hazard maps designated large sections of the city as very high fire risk.
Residents and wildfire mitigation experts urged the Thousand Oaks City Council to adopt an urgent call to action on wildfire prevention, citing recent regional fires and updated state hazard maps that place large portions of the city at very high risk.
Chris Sam, a longtime Thousand Oaks resident who identified himself as a risk professional and leader of a local Firewise community, told the council that “a catastrophic fire impacting the city of Thousand Oaks…
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