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Nevada County rolls out Ready, Set, Go and ZoneHaven to sharpen evacuation response
Summary
County emergency staff emphasized home hardening, defensible space and a three‑tier Ready, Set, Go public campaign and urged residents to sign up for CodeRED and Nixle and to check their ZoneHaven evacuation zone at community.zonehaven.com.
Nevada County emergency staff opened the board workshop by urging residents to prepare now for wildfire season under the Ready, Set, Go framework: Ready (prepare and harden property), Set (heightened readiness during red‑flag weather) and Go (leave when authorities issue evacuation orders). Officials described concrete steps homeowners can take — creating 100 feet of defensible space, using fine‑mesh vent screening, and switching to non‑combustible deck materials — to reduce the chance an ember storm will ignite structures.
The county also encouraged residents to build a neighborhood network — “Find Your 5” — naming at…
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