HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019_01_16 Joint Meeting - County Fire2018 California Fire Season
•Over 20,000 structures destroyed
•1.9-million acres burned
•98 people killed
•County Fire deployments
•2310C –7 major incidents (Mendo & Camp)
•20 overhead assignments
MOST DESTRUCTIVE & DEADLY
FIRE SEASON IN CA HISTORY!
Fuel + Weather + WUI = destructive fires
REQUIRES LOCAL SOLUTIONS!
Wildfire Problem
Source: bayarealands.org
Fuel –surrounded by open space
Source: bayarealands.org
Weather –baseline 1951-80
Source: bayarealands.org
Weather –forecast is hotter and drier
Saratoga Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
Plans
SOC
CWPP
LHMP
Significant investment in wildfire
response
•Apparatus
•10 –Four wheel drive utility pickups
•8 –Type 3 4WD wildland fire engines
•3 –Type 6 4WD wildland fire engines
•4 –New command vehicles
•2 –Remote automated weather stations
•1 –Type 2 water tender
•Response is weather dependent
•Additional resources –dual jurisdiction / MTZ
Fuel + Weather + WUI = destructive fires
Addressing Wildfire Problem
1. Fuels
•“The state must increase fuel-reduction efforts to 10X the
area that is currently treated.” -Scott Stephens, UC Berkeley Center for
Fire Research*
•CWPP provides recommendations
•Form a community working group to work with open
space land managers to collaboratively develop fuel
treatments plans on open space lands.
•Implement roadside brushing/mowing increase buffer
from wildfire ignitions
•County Fire
•Partnerships with other agencies
*Source: https://www.ppic.org/blog/managing-wildfires-requires-new -strategies/
2. Weather
•CWPP provides recommendations
•Develop parcel level application of CWPP risk
assessment using Intterra software
•County Fire
•Reinforce/communicate severity of ”Red Flag” conditions
•Investigate other technologies based on predicted
fuel/weather conditions
•GIS-based simulators
•Fire detection cameras
•LiDAR
3. WUI (developed areas)
•CWPP provides recommendations
•Establish Safe Refuge Areas
•Develop WUI preplans
•The CWPP serves as the wildfire component of
Saratoga LHMP and General Plan -Safety and other
element amendments
•County Fire
•Added GIS specialist in 2015
•Working with each community on CWPP adoption
•Ready, Set, Go community workshops in 2019
2019 Ready, Set, Go Workshops
WHAT: www.sccfd.org/rsg
WHEN:Thursday, April 18 from 6:30 -8:00 pm
Thursday, May 30 from 6:30 -8:00 pm
WHERE:Joan Pisani Community Center
19655 Allendale Avenue
Saratoga, CA
Key Contacts –Saratoga
•Fire Chief
•Tony Bowden
•Administrative Assistant, Elisa Richards
•408.341.4494
•Saratoga Community Liaison
•Deputy Chief / Support Services, Jason Falarski
•408.341.4421
•Public Information Officer
•Bill Murphy, Fire Captain
•408.335.8897
•Fire Prevention
•Mac Bala, Deputy Fire Marshal
•408.341.4428
QUESTIONS
John Justice
Assistant Fire Chief
Jason Falarski
Deputy Chief / Community Liaison