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In 2011, The Fire Safe Council of Nevada County published a Fire Wise Plants for Western Nevada County], which is distributed by a local nursery, among other places. The nursery reported a significant shift in the mix of plants people purchase. A helpful tool for homeowners is a list of local contractors who do fuel reduction work.
[27] [12] Though it has since fallen well out of the top 20 destructive fires, [29] it remains the most destructive wildfire in Nevada County history. [12] The number of destroyed homes is unclear: the Nevada Fire Safe Council reported it as 148, [4] while the Red Cross estimate reached 190, including 23 mobile homes. [30]
Fire Safe Council Logo (used by the CFSC and local fire safe councils) The name California Fire Safe Council (CFSC) has been used for two very different organizations. The original use of the name, from 1993 through mid-2002, referred to a loose consortium of local community-based fire safe councils and other organizations that shared the mission of making California's communities less ...
With the water problem, you’ve got to have a better system.” ... the billions of dollars in estimated damage caused by the fire. The county's 2013 project list included a proposed $186,000 ...
The Dutch Fire sparked about 3:30 p.m. along Lowell Hill Road near the Dutch Flat Forebay’s dam in Nevada County and burned at least 45 acres near the border with Placer County, according to Cal ...
L.A. City Council members have called on the Department of Water and Power to examine why fire hydrants lost water pressure in last week's epic firefight, and why a reservoir was offline.
Fire Adapted Communities logo. A fire-adapted community is defined by the United States Forest Service as "a knowledgeable and engaged community in which the awareness and actions of residents regarding infrastructure, buildings, landscaping, and the surrounding ecosystem lessens the need for extensive protection actions and enables the community to safely accept fire as a part of the ...
The 43-year-old Penn Valley man was arrested on suspicion of five counts of arson and was booked at the Nevada County Jail, where he was being held until his arraignment, the Cal Fire Nevada-Yuba ...