Public Meeting: Highway 108 FireSafe Council

Friday, February 29, 2008

Public Meeting: Highway 108 FireSafe Council

Sonora, CA…Fire Safe Council President Jerry Tannhauser today announced the Highway 108 FireSafe Council is inviting homeowners northeast of Sonora to meet and discuss fire protection, emergency preparedness, and fire prevention measures needed to protect life, property, and resources from wildland fires. The subject area consists of both public and private land accessed by Lyons Bald Mountain Road, including Apple Valley Estates.....

The open public meeting is scheduled to be held at the Stanislaus National Forest Supervisor’s Office, 19777 Greenley Road, Sonora, at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, March 6, 2008. The purpose of the meeting is to provide private landowners and local fire agency officials the opportunity to discuss and consider a strategic planning link between fire protection, emergency access routes, and community fire prevention measures that support agency firefighting efforts.

The evening meeting will feature a presentation about the multi-agency coordination (MAC) function within the Incident Command System, and how it works to provide needed personnel, equipment, and support for extended attack on large wildland fires and other all-risk incidents posing a threat to life, property and resources. Recent examples of this interagency coordination will include the mobilization of local agency resources to support the state-wide response to numerous large wildfires during last fall’s southern California Santa Ana wind event fire siege.

The Fire Safe Council is seeking ideas and comments from residents in the Lyons Bald Mountain, Apple Valley, and surrounding areas to help fire agencies better identify the existing wildland fire danger present on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and adjacent private property located within the City of Sonora, Tuolumne County and California State Responsibility Area protected by the Sonora City Fire Department, Tuolumne County Fire Department, and CALFIRE (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection).

The general area northeast of Sonora consists of private land located in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), some of which borders BLM land. The area is considered a priority concern due to the level of flammable vegetation, adjacent homes, and the potential threat to life, property, and other values at risk due to large and damaging wildlfires. The public is asked to help agency officials identify priority areas for strategic fuel reduction projects, generally located on private land adjacent to federally administered lands and the communities.

The Highway 108 FireSafe Council works closely with the Tuolumne County Fire Department, CALFIRE, USDA Forest Service, USDI Bureau of Land Management, Tuolumne City Fire Protection District, Sonora City Fire Department, local fire districts, Tuolumne Rancheria Fire Department, and other Tuolumne County agencies to develop and implement strategic community wildfire protection plans.

Source: ThePineTree.net

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Friday, February 29, 2008