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==Wednesday September 09 2019 Fire Safe San Mateo County==
wow a big meeting

* Casey S no longer with RCD.
** rats, BCERT et al were just getting going with this guy
* Grant Discussion WRT Cal Fire
** goal - originate request with a suitable local agency
** sometimes a grant isn't "doable" due to practical resource issues
** triage: biggest bang for the buck in a CalFire region
** CalFire ( et all ) developes analytics for best grants
* MOney? where>
** fire district fees, about 100M used
** then distributed to local programs
$ 80, 45, 14 dist in past 3 years. downward curv
** State Responsibility Areas (SRA's ) are first in priority. ( yeah us ! )
*** as time has passed the distributions have extended to adjacent areas
*** in this area grants come to "andy" for Santa Cruz and "sarah" for san Mateo, then polished and sent up to Sacramento
** funding source == CCI California Climate INvestment ( senate bill 901 )
** pollution fines believe it or not
** Fire Protection Grants - smaller communities and neighborhoods
** Forest Health Grants - larger areas. much larger areas.
** 292 applications, applying for 190 Million
** 26 regions get granted. 1 grant per CalFire unit. Units prioritize all grants
** Bill 901: $200 Million x 5 years each. all multi-year projects
** Grants are biased tword Low Income and Disadvantaged communities: ala Pescadero area.
*** bonus scoring for protecting habitats
*** fuel reduction - dead and dying trees near structures
*** Fire prevention Planning
*** fire prevention education
*** '''must be able to describe green house gas reduction'''
** Low Income Areas are a goal for 35% of funding
** non qualifying
*** small capital equipment
*** roads, bridges, structures, water systems
*** dead and dying tres which are not a threat to public health and safety
** mapping; b y July 2020SRA areas will be mapped with data verification back models - model runs backward in time to post-predict fires. to validate model.
** grans will be looking for evidence of inter-group collaboration
** looking for CalFire recognition of issue

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		+	==Presentation by FireWise USA ==
		+	* Firewise USA - nation group from National Fire Prevention Association ( NFPA )
		+	* works with locations for general fire planning
		+	* focus on community scale organizations
		+	* community volunteers, plus Dept of Interior, Agriculture and Forest Service
		+	* average community participation is about 20%
		+	* about 1500 FWise groups in country
		+	* presents info to help reduce risk for residents and first responders
		+	** 80-90% of fire damage is due to wind blown embers, not 'trees'
		+	** relative safety of Redwoods in irrelevant, it's all our stuff underneath
		+	* Firewise orgs in communities are not necessiarly a 503c
		+	* no fewer than 8 homes in a community, no more than 2000
		+	* complements FireSafe Council
		+	* this org asks for 1/hr of committment per household per year.
		+	** easy peasy to pull off around here
		+	* Insurance
		+	** insurance re-insureers never predicted the huge increase in wildfire damages
		+	** Hurricans and hailstormes previously more expensive. Many previous years a single hailstorm in Texas costs more than the nations wildfires
		+	** their risk models no longer work
		+	** emerging models are highly detailed. getting down to individual households and local geography
		+	** insurance carriers have been able to keep wildfire insurance very low, offset by hurricane and hailstorm insurance. They've wised up.
		+	* strategies
		+	** mass data collection over last decade has helped
		+	** building code changes in 2008 helped
		+	** 5' no burn zone is confirmed by research and field observations
		+	** newer cladding materials last longer and are safer in fires.
		+	*** no doubt retrofitting is expensive
		+	** 60% of Paradise was uninsured
		+	*** 93% of homes which start burning are lost
		+	*** too many fires to fight
		+	** last economicc ression caused a relaxation of zoning code reviews for wildfire. focus hadn't returned until recent disasters
		+	** California 2008 codes have been pushed back due to building and materials manufactuere pressure.

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Caseyd at 05:53, 11 November 2019

Caseyd: Created page with "==Wednesday September 09 2019 Fire Safe San Mateo County== wow a big meeting * Casey S no longer with RCD. ** rats, BCERT et al were just getting going with this guy * Grant..."