Sunday, November 13, 2016

Secret List Alert: MAJOR fire service event canceled for the safety of those attending.

AN URGENT FIRE SERVICE REQUEST: FIREFIGHTERS & PROTESTERS

All, As Firefighters you are well aware that there is significant unrest in our Country due to the election results. While you may have thought the protests may or may not impact us-it did tonight.

Due to the huge protests in Los Angeles, a MAJOR fire service event that supports YOU had to be canceled for the safety of those attending.

Tonight WAS the annual gala fund raiser for the Firefighter Cancer Support Network. Now I really don't care how right, middle or left you are, who you voted for or whatever-the fact is that the most MAJOR FIRE FIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT organization in North America was sucker punched and had it's wind knocked out this evening-and this impacts every one of us.

OUR REQUEST IS that you take 5 minutes and make a donation so we can help them make this huge loss up thru donations.

PLEASE GO TO: https://firefightercancersupport.org/ and click on top, the blue button marked DONATE.

If that link fails, click here: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E201016&id=1

So please-

If you voted for TRUMP-PLEASE DONATE

If you voted for CLINTON-PLEASE DONATE

If you voted for anyone else-PLEASE DONATE

if you support the protesters-PLEASE DONATE

If you don't support the protesters-PLEASE DONATE

If you appreciate the time we put into THE SECRET LIST-PLEASE DONATE

If you belong to IAFF, IAFC, NVFC. ISFSI, NFPA-They all support the FCSN...SO PLEASE DONATE

Quite frankly, if you have a pulse-PLEASE DONATE

$10.00 $25.00 $50.00 $100.00 or more...whatever you can do. PLEASE. If your Union local can-please donate. if your Volunteer association can-please donate.

MAYBE once a year we identify an "EMERGENCY" where all of your help is needed-and this would be it. The FIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK is a NON-profit with only TWO paid staffers-the rest are VOLUNTEERS supporting EVERY firefighter and their family dealing with cancer-and all the prevention work that goes along with it.

PLEASE GO TO: https://firefightercancersupport.org/ and click on top, the blue button marked DONATE.

Your help is more than just sincerely appreciated. It is urgently needed as this was their only annual fundraiser. And now it has been shut down for the safety of those attending due to the protesters.

Take Care. Be Careful. Pass It On. Please Donate.

BillyG

The Secret List 11-12-2016-1945 Hours

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Friday, November 11, 2016

CA-CZU CAL FIRE San Mateo - Santa Cruz Unit Transitions Out of Peak Fire Season

CAL FIRE San Mateo Santa Cruz Unit Transitions Out of Peak Fire Season

Felton – Recent rains and cooler temperatures across the region have lowered the threat of wildfires allowing CAL FIRE’s San Mateo Santa Cruz Unit to transition out of peak fire season effective the 14th of November 2016 , 8:00 am, in San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties.

As drought conditions continue to have a hold on California, CAL FIRE is maintaining staffing to meet the current threat, as well as strategically moving resources to areas that remain at a higher threat level. CAL FIRE will also continue to monitor weather conditions closely and still has the ability to increase staffing should weather conditions change or if there is a need to support wildfires or other emergencies in other areas of the State.

The 2016 fire season has been an extremely active year, even more so than in 2015. Statewide, CAL FIRE and firefighters from many local agencies battled over 5,585 wildfires within the State Responsibility Area that burned nearly 148,000 acres. This is over 1,170 more wildfires this year than normal. In the San Mateo Santa Cruz Unit, CAL FIRE responded to 54 wildfires that charred 41 acres.

During the cooler winter months, CAL FIRE will be focusing efforts on the implementation of fire prevention and fuels treatment activities as guided by the State’s Strategic Fire Plan and localized Unit fire plans. These activities are aimed at reducing the impacts of large, damaging wildfires and improving overall forest health.

Residents are urged to still take precautions outdoors in order to prevent sparking a wildfire. A leading cause of wildfires this time of year is from escaped landscape debris burning. Before you burn, ensure it is a permissive burn day by contacting the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District (MBUAPCD) for Santa Cruz County at (831) 647-9411 or Bay Area Air Quality Management District for San Mateo County at (415) 749-4900 and then make sure you have any and all required burn permits. Residential pile burning in Santa Cruz County is not permitted by MBUAPCD until December 1. During burning, make sure that piles of landscape debris are no larger than four feet in diameter, provide a 10 ft. clearance down to bare mineral soil around the burn pile and ensure that a responsible adult is in attendance at all times with a water source and a shovel.

For more ways to prevent sparking a wildfire visit www.ReadyForWildfire.org.

CAL FIRE NEWS RELEASE
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

San Mateo - Santa Cruz Unit

CONTACT: Angela Bernheisel, (831) 212-7805, CZU on twitter @CALFIRECZU

RELEASE DATE: November 11, 2016

****REMINDER**** Every fire has the ability to be catastrophic. The wildland fire management environment has profoundly changed. Growing numbers of communities, across the nation, are experiencing longer fire seasons; more frequent, bigger, and more severe, fires are a real threat. Be careful with all campfires and equipment.

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer." --Abraham Lincoln

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