NFPA Journal - May/June 2017 - 60
BOSTON 2017
Conference & Expo
READY OR NOT
A 2016 wildfire menaces property in California. The state
says it is seeing progress in home-ignition prevention as a
result of a program that imposes an annual fee on residents
in certain fire-prone areas. The money is used for an array of
mitigation and prevention efforts.
In 2011, a California assemblyman proposed a first-of-itskind bill that imposed a $150 annual fee for roughly 800,000
people who own homes in the state's 31 million acres of
unincorporated land known as the "state responsibility area,"
where CAL FIRE is responsible for fighting fires-many of
Specifically, the money has allowed CAL FIRE to increase
public education about wildfire and wildfire prevention and
create more defensible spaces, or areas where vegetation
and other wildfire fuel is reduced to slow the spread of wildfire, Shew said. There has also been a rise in the number of
Firewise communities in
California since the law
was passed, he said, which
could be attributed to the
increase in education.
One area Shew said is
lacking, however, is teaching residents the notion
of "solidifying" or "hardening" homes and other
structures-sealing cracks,
crevices, and other areas
where wind-blown embers from a wildfire can become trapped
and ignite a fire. The absence of hardened homes can lead to
structures being destroyed by the thousands during wildfires,
he said. Shew will lead an education session at the Conference
& Expo that will address structure hardening and other efforts
by CAL FIRE to prevent structure loss in the WUI.
" I REALLY BELIEVED AT THE END OF
TUESDAY, IF WE WAKE UP AT FIRST
LIGHT AND WE'VE GOT 50 PERCENT
OF OUR HOMES LEFT AND WE'VE
ONLY KILLED A FEW THOUSAND
PEOPLE, WE'D HAVE DONE WELL. "
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"The Beast"
Complementing Shew's talk is another education session that
will look at the structure-protection lessons learned from a
massive wildfire that tore through Western Canada last year,
which reinforce much of what CAL FIRE is trying to teach
residents in California.
GETT Y IMAGES
them wildfires. The bill was met with backlash from some
who argued it was an unfair tax, but the measure was signed
into law nonetheless.
Six years into the law, the state is seeing specific cases in
which wildfires have been stopped because of prevention
efforts that were made possible by the money collected from
the fees, according to David Shew, staff chief of planning and
risk analysis at CAL FIRE. "We're far enough into the law
that we're beginning to see examples of where prevention
work that was funded by the fee reduced the impact of certain wildfires, preventing them from becoming bigger and
more destructive," Shew told NFPA Journal. "The fee is leading to fewer wildfires."
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