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Nevada City allocates $50,000 for home-hardening grants and adopts updated wildfire mitigation plan
Summary
Council approved an interim home-hardening retrofit program and allocated $50,000 from Measure C for community grants; the council also adopted an updated Wildfire Prevention and Mitigation Action Plan and directed a joint session to explore hardening measures for historic downtown buildings.
Nevada City on June 25 approved an interim home-hardening retrofit program aimed at reducing structure ignitions from ember-driven wildfires and set aside $50,000 from Measure C to fund community grants and program delivery.
Evan, a city presenter working with the Fire Safety Advisory Committee, told the council the program focuses on low-cost, high-impact retrofits such as door sweeps, vent screening and sealing siding gaps. ‘‘The items within this plan mainly include simple retrofits to prevent embers from…
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