by Susanne | Dec 23, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, News, Organization
The 2021 Wildfire Advent Calendar has been brought to you by Creative Crisis Leadership, a fledgling nonprofit organization with an award-winning new approach to community disaster preparation and a mission to prepare people to be unprepared. Now it’s your...
by Susanne | Dec 22, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, COVID-19, Disaster Management, Earthquake, Hazards, Preparedness, Recovery, Wildfire
“I think the key to my, our experience is, the fact that we were a very, very tight knit community helped immensely.” — JD, 2020 CZU Lightening Complex Fire survivor We often hear from people that those around them were what helped most in getting through a disaster....
by Susanne | Dec 19, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Hazards, Wildfire
Remember the wildfire in Bambi? Where Bambi and all other the animals are running for their lives from the wildfire? The fire that was started by an unattended campfire? The scary thing is, this scenario is both realistic — animals try to outrun a wildfire —...
by Susanne | Dec 16, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Hazards, Wildfire
Photo from InciWeb, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons “What people don’t often realize is that hand crews are kind of the cornerstone … putting in hand lines, that’s essentially the way we stop the fire from growing.” — Mike Johnson, Assistant Fire...
by Susanne | Dec 14, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent, Disaster Management, Evacuation, Hazards, Wildfire
Mary has a little lamb. In fact, she has twenty-seven of them. One day, a wildfire breaks out. Mary, her farm, and all her little lambs are in the evacuation zone. Mary’s lambs and all their moms won’t fit into her pickup truck, so she doesn’t want to go. Can...
