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Nevada County launches Ready, Set, Go campaign and ZoneHaven to help residents prepare for wildfires

Nevada County Board of Supervisors · March 12, 2024
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Summary

County emergency staff and community speakers urged residents to build defensible space, prepare ‘go bags’ and neighborhood networks. Officials launched ZoneHaven (community.zonehaven.com) to help residents identify evacuation zones; staff said it supplements CodeRED and Nixle.

Nevada County emergency staff and community volunteers used the Board of Supervisors meeting to highlight household and neighborhood steps residents can take before fire season and to introduce a new mapping tool, ZoneHaven. The Ready, Set, Go campaign presented practical preparedness steps — ‘‘ready’’ education and home hardening, ‘‘set’’ neighborhood posture when conditions worsen, and ‘‘go’’ when evacuation orders arrive — and encouraged residents to know and record their ZoneHaven zone.

Presenters described common home-hardening measures such as installing…

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