by Susanne | Dec 22, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent
“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
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
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
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...
by Susanne | Dec 11, 2021 | 2021 Wildfire Advent
If you want to go beyond protecting your house from wildfire, and help your community to prepare, there’s some good news. Community organizing takes commitment and hard work. But it can be a lot of fun, and, in the case of wildfire preparedness, there’s help to...
