Firewise Cascadel Ranch Fire Safe Council
Promoting & Protecting the Social, Economic, & Environmental Welfare of Cascadel Ranch through Education & Facilitation
This is the Firewise Madera County main "blog" archive. Articles are time sensitive. Current posts appear at the top. Firewise Madera County is a collaborative education and outreach program of the County of Madera. FMC is designed to protect lives and property from wildfire through education, personal responsibility and taking action. The program promotes the NFPA Firewise Communities USA program.
Today marks the beginning of Madera County’s web centric efforts to implement the Firewise Communities Program for Madera County.
Part of the NFPA’s Firewise Communities program, Firewise Madera County acts as a critical component of the implementation and ongoing monitoring of the Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Madera County, adopted in 2009. [Read more…]
The story of Firewise and how this all came about is pretty interesting. We are creating a backdated timeline of the events leading up to Firewise Communities today.
According to the Firewise Communities web site, wildfire burning homes was primarily considered a California only problem, until the 1985-1986 fire season. [Read more…]