Please see below a letter from the Fire Safe President, Denise Enea.
Fire Safe San Mateo News
Wildfire Safety Blog and News from Fire Safe San Mateo.
Jun
04
Apr
14
At April's Fire Safe Council Meeting, there were two presentations, which were recorded and are available for download below.
Paul Hessburg, Ph.D., Research Ecologist, USDA-FS
Our wildfire problem; How we got here and What we can do about it
Sheena Sidhu, Ph.D., Erica Harris, and David Cowman, Forest Health and Fire Resiliency Program, San Mateo Resource Conservantion District (RCD)
Collaborative Forest Health and Fire Resiliency for San Mateo County
Mar
19
There will be an informational meeting for the Prescribed Burn Project planned for San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) land. The meeting will be Wednesday, March 24, 7pm-8pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85223632957?pwd=bGdKTDM2K3dkKzV2Y1hZS0J2MGFOZz09
Webinar: 645149 Passcode: 645149
Or Telephone: 669-900-6833
Presenters:
Sarah Collamer, Forester I CAL FIRE
Richard Sampson, Forester II CAL FIRE
Jonathan Cox, Deputy Chief San Mateo
Jonathan Perrin, Peninsula Area Land Manager, SFPUC
Mar
12
SJSU Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center is hosting a Fire Weather Workshop, April 8-9, 2021
This year, the workship will have an extended speaker list of colleagues and partners from across the world to provide an international perspective on current fire weather reesarch. Sessions include: fuels and fire danager, remote sensing of fire environment, fire weather indices and case studies, coupled fire-atmosphere modeling advances, and smoke modeling and impacts. For more information vist the webiste (click here). Register here
Mar
11
Presentation: Changes in fire risk for climate change in San Mateo County.
Isabel Pares Ramos, San Mateo Office of Sustainability and LeRoy Westerling, UC Merced
Mar
10
Thanks to sponsorship from CAL FIRE, PGE, and local fire agencies, ALERTWildfire has installed several wildfire cameras in strategic locations throughout San Mateo county and the western United States.
ALERTWildfire is a consortium of three universities -- The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), University of California San Diego (UCSD), and the University of Oregon (UO) -- providing access to state-of-the-art Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) fire cameras and associated tools to help firefighters and first responders: (1) discover/locate/confirm fire ignition, (2) quickly scale fire resources up or down appropriately, (3) monitor fire behavior through containment, (4) during firestorms, help evacuations through enhanced situational awareness, and (5) ensure contained fires are monitored appropriately through their demise.
To view wildfire cameras and get more information on ALERTWildfire, follow the link below:
Mar
10
Celia Hare of the Center for Employment Training (based in San Jose, CA) presented at the March Fire Safe Council meeting. She shared information about the 2020 August Wildfire Temporary Jobs Assistance Program which is currently serving San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. This program is focused on public or non-profit land post-fire clean up by their crews.
At this time, the program is both identifying potential job sites and recruiting people for the program.
If you are interested in leanring more, please reach out to Celia Hare: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (408) 534-5339
Mar
04
The Central Coast Prescribed Burn Council (CCPBA) is hosting Prescribed Firelighter and Wildland Firefighter Training.
The workshop will be held in three locations:
- April 3: Santa Lucia Conservancy, Carmel, Monterey CO
- April 10: Paicines Ranch, San Benito CO
- April 11: Davenport, Santa Cruz Co
These are all day events 9:00am - 5:00pm
Register here: Prescribed Firelighter and Basic Wildland Firefighter Training (ucanr.edu)
Jan
21
California's Wildfire and Forest and Resilience Action Plan was released January 2021 by the Forest Management Task Force. It is a call to action for California's growing forest and wildfire crisis. It is designed to strategically accelerate efforts to:
- Restore the health and reslience of California forests, grasslands and natural places
- Improve the fire safety of our communities
- Sustain th economic vitality of rural forested areas
Link here: https://fmtf.fire.ca.gov/media/cjwfpckz/californiawildfireandforestresilienceactionplan.pdf
Dec
08
Matteo Garbelotto will be giving a talk called "Living with Fire" on December 12, 2020 at 10am.
Dr. Garbelotto has previously spoken on Sudden Oak Death at a previous Fire Safe San Mateo County meeting. He is inviting anyone interested to register and attend.
Register here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEocuuurTorGdeDT62OM4oiFEXla-tZrSQA
Website with more information: http://www.ucbfire.org