Tri-County Fire Safe Working Group seeks county partners and grant support for wildfire mitigation
Representatives from the Tri-County Fire Safe Working Group told Broadwater County commissioners Feb. 25 they offer grant-funded home ignition-zone assessments and cost-share mitigation (typically 75% grant / 25% homeowner) and urged the county to consider acting as a pass-through for an evacuation-route grant expected in March.
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Ed Shindoll, chief of the Broadwater Rural Fire District and vice president of the Tri-County Fire Safe Working Group, and Lois Olsen described the group's wildfire-education and mitigation work serving Broadwater, Lewis and Clark and Jefferson counties. Olsen said the group provides free home ignition-zone assessments and, when grants are available, offers a typical cost share of about 75% grant funding and 25% homeowner contribution for mitigation projects.
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