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Orange County Fire Authority outlines Ready, Set, Go program, inspection rules and new CAL FIRE maps for San Clemente homeowners
Summary
Orange County Fire Authority staff described annual inspection practices, free home assessments and incoming changes from CAL FIRE and Assembly Bill 3074 that will affect defensible-space rules for homes in San Clemente's high fire severity zones.
David Babbitt, the community wildfire mitigation inspector assigned to the city of San Clemente, and Ron Lloyd, assistant fire marshal for Division 3 of the Orange County Fire Authority, briefed the San Clemente Public Safety Committee on OCFA’s Ready, Set, Go wildfire-preparedness program and related inspection policies.
Babbitt described OCFA’s role in local wildfire mitigation and said the agency performs about 2,500 annual home and business vegetation inspections across the city’s high and very high fire severity zones. “If you live here, you have a very high probability of being involved in a wildfire in the next 50 years,” Babbitt said, adding that the maps OCFA uses are produced by CAL FIRE and “we have to accept them as is.”
The presentation emphasized three service areas: free educational home assessments, defensible-space enforcement and plan reviews for new construction. Homeowners in San Clemente can request a no-cost home assessment; Babbitt said inspectors will walk a property with a…
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