UPCOMING EVENTS
Public Meetings for Prescribed Burns Scheduled to begin around
September 26, 2024
Meeting #1: Harris Park Community Center, Monday September 23rd from 6-7pm (focusing on the Harris Park Project specifically).
Meeting #2: Platte Canyon High School, Canyon Room, Wednesday September 25th from 6-7pm (focusing on the Payne Gulch Project specifically)
Great new resources on the LINKS page.
Need Your Help Collecting Hours for Firewise Activities UPDATE Sep 16, 2024
I would like to thank everyone that has sent me information about mitigation projects on your properties. We are very near our goal to meet the minimum number of hours to submit our application for Firewise Recognition by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). I will be submitting our final numbers in the application on October 15th, so please continue to send your information until then.
Every year to maintain our neighborhood Firewise Status, we need to complete work in our neighborhood to help remove the risk of wildfires. This status helps show that we have a reduced risk from wildfires and that can help with insurance rates and even insurability.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We need help with information about the tasks you are doing around your homes to remove you own risk, which can include raking pine needles, leaves and debris, trimming trees, removing trees, mowing your grass, cleaning out your gutters and downspouts and almost any cleanup work you are already doing around your house. Select this Link to see a full list of Firewise tasks that you can include. For example, I had to have 3 trees removed due to beetle kill – and that counts!
WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU:
We need you to send us information about any work you have done in 2024 on these efforts. If you did any work around your own home that is on this list, please send us that information. You can send this to my email at k_dday@yahoo.com or to the Burland HOA email ay burlandhoa@yahoo.com.
We need the following information:
Name
Address
What work you completed
An estimate of how many hours you spent on the task or tasks and/or any monies spent for this work
You can list things out as separate tasks or just list it as a total for the year. Anything you can do will help with our reporting efforts for this year (2024). This will support us getting our Firewise status to Good Standing for 2025.
Thank you all in advance for your help with this information. Your information will help us get our Firewise status secured for 2025!
Keith Doubleday
Firewise Team
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Citizen Involvement
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Citizen involvement is the cornerstone of a Firewise Community.
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As participants in this effort you and your neighbors will learn how to decrease the risk of losing your homes and to best protect yourselves in the event of wildfire.
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Within wildland/urban interface areas, firefighters lack the resources to defend every home that is threatened during extreme wildfires.
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Communities whose residents take steps to reduce their vulnerability have a greater chance of surviving a wildfire.
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A Firewise Community offers residents in fire-prone areas a unique opportunity to implement Firewise practices specially tailored to individual and community needs.
Park County now uses the CodeRED Emergency Notification System (reverse 911). With this system, citizens are able to enter their own data and choose how they would like to receive the notification. Signup Here.
Do you know someone who does not have internet access? Help them signup for Code Red.
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