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City of Sisters mayor recounts two major fires in 11 months, urges more mitigation funding
Summary
Mayor Jennifer Latimer said her community faced two major aggressive fires within 11 months, praised coordinated frontline response, and urged more funding for home hardening, communications and defensible-space work.
Jennifer Latimer, mayor of the City of Sisters, told attendees that her community experienced "not 1, but 2 major aggressive fires" in an 11-month period and praised decades of coordination among local, state and federal responders that saved many homes. Latimer said many property owners have completed defensible-space work, but home hardening and communication gaps remain, and funding to do more mitigation is scarce.
Latimer also acknowledged firefighter fatalities this season, saying the losses 'tear my heart apart' and linking underfunding and understaffing to increased risk. She urged a statewide and federal response that ensures local communities receive assistance regardless of political affiliation and asked lawmakers to explore financing mechanisms to accelerate mitigation work.
