by Nic Elmquist | Jul 9, 2020 | Risk Management
This issue of the Journal of the California Native Plant Society is devoted to California native plants and how their role in fire safety. It includes papers on subjects such as “The Role of Fire Safe Councils in California” and also a paper written by...
by Nic Elmquist | Jul 7, 2020 | Weather and Fire Environment
This paper explains the new Hot-Dry-Windy Index which will replace the Haines Index, which has been in place since 1988, to predict days with weather conditions present to contribute to extreme fire behavior.
by Nic Elmquist | Sep 1, 2020 | Featured Presentations
The SB Fire Safe Council was lucky to have Southern California Edison Government Relations Manager Rondi Guthrie provide a remote presentation at our last General Meeting on August 27th. We were planning on recording the presentation to be posted here, but technical...
by Nic Elmquist | Jul 24, 2020 | Featured Presentations
Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West, hosted a Wildfire Event trilogy based on their winter quarter “Environmental Governance and Climate Resilience” course.During the June 25, 2020 panel, the discussion was based on training...
by Nic Elmquist | Sep 1, 2020 | Community Wildfire Protection Plans
The Santa Barbara City Fire Department is working on a plan to protect the residents within the city limits from the growing threat of wildfire. The information regarding the updated Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) process including the Draft CWPP, Fire...
