Featured Presentations | Santa Barbara Firesafe Council

Featured Presentation: The Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX) Update

by Nic Elmquist | May 2, 2022 | Featured Presentations

UC Santa Barbara Professor, Dr. Leila Carvalho, provides an update to the Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council at the April 28, 2022 Board Meeting. Dr. Carvalho details the measurements that are occurring over a six-week period to better understand our local...

Featured Presentation: Quantifying Insurance Benefits of a Nature-based Approach to Reducing Risk

by Nic Elmquist | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured Presentations

It was great to have Sydney Chamberlin from The Nature Conservancy to join us at the March 24, 2022. Her presentation focused on a project she helped lead quantifying the benefits of buffers around communities and the impacts these buffers have on reducing wildfire...

Featured Presentation: Wildfire and the Built Environment: Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Strategies

by Nic Elmquist | Jan 27, 2022 | Featured Presentations

It was an honor to have Dr. Steve Quarles from UC Cooperative Extension and retired Chief Scientist at the Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) Research Center, join us at the January 27, 2022 membership meeting. His well attended presentation focused on how...

Featured Presentation: SBC Regional Priority Plan

by Nic Elmquist | Nov 23, 2021 | Featured Presentations

The Regional Priority Plan is a visionary project funded by the California Coastal Conservancy to help Santa Barbara County organize and prioritize projects, programs, and policies to address the ongoing threat of wildfire in the region. The Cachuma Resource...

Featured Presentation: Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program

by Nic Elmquist | Oct 22, 2021 | Featured Presentations

The Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program (RWMP) is a novel approach to wildfire mitigation. Fire Safe Council Director and UC Santa Barbara professor, Max Moritz, spearheaded a grant proposal to start a RWMP for the Santa Barbara County South Coast. The program was...

Featured Presentation: Kurt Van Speybroeck, National Weather Service

by Nic Elmquist | Jul 13, 2021 | Featured Presentations

Kurt has had quite the career as a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, including working for the National Spaceflight Program out of Houston, Texas. Kurt now works as an Emergency Response Specialist out of the NWS Southern Region Operations Center in Fort...

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The Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council has staff to help support communities interested in becoming certified in the Firewise USA program. Learn more about the program and the benefits it provides in this short video highlighting our local community. Click HERE to view the video created by Ethan Turpin from the Burn Cycle Project.