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Community turns out for first Firewise Calaveras Festival, leaders urge action on home hardening and fuel projects
Summary
Calaveras County’s inaugural Firewise Calaveras Festival drew residents, local officials, CAL FIRE and vendors to share home-hardening guidance, fuel-break results and evacuation planning. Speakers highlighted legal requirements (PRC 4291), maintenance costs for fuel breaks, and new federal proposals for faster forest thinning.
Trina Wally, executive director of the Calaveras County Resource Conservation District, opened the first annual Firewise Calaveras Festival and thanked volunteers who stood up the event in six weeks to share information on home defense, home hardening and community wildfire preparedness.
Martin Huberty, board chair for the county Board of Supervisors, told attendees that recent lightning-caused fires showed the value of interagency communication and announced an evacuation rehearsal with the Forest Meadows homeowners association. “Nothing became more evident when the 2 7 lightning fire happened,” Huberty said, thanking homeowners and local…
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