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		<title>Pre-fire planning pays off in Ventura County</title>
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Fire officials praised the response by residents after a lightning-sparked wildfire endangered several Ventura county neighborhoods. Ventura county has put a priority this spring on educating the public about the Ready, Set, Go! program and the requirement of 100 feet of defensible space. Residents evacuated early, and firefighters were able to use the defensible space [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firescaping.org/blog/?p=230</link>
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		<title>Students lend a hand restoring forest after Station fire</title>
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College students from the Student Conservation Association are participating a project designed to restore areas of the Angeles National Forest burned in last year&#8217;s Station fire. The three month project includes students from all over the United States and is aimed at restoring recreation areas of the Forest that were damaged during the wildfire. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firescaping.org/blog/?p=232</link>
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		<title>What to do after a wildfire</title>
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Though we can prepare our families, home, and property for fire, wildfires are an inevitable part of living in fire-prone landscapes.
Most educational material focuses on preparation. But what should we do after a wildfire has burned through our area?
-First, stay informed. Don&#8217;t try to get back to your home until local law enforcement allow you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firescaping.org/blog/?p=222</link>
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		<title>How to escape from a quickly approaching wildfire</title>
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Wind-driven wildfires can move unbelievably fast, racing up hillsides, leaping canyons and sending burning embers flying miles ahead of the flame front. Residents may have only minutes to escape their neighborhood as the wildfire approaches, and for many, it may be the most terrifying experience of their life, buffeted by hurricane-force winds, with burning debris [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firescaping.org/blog/?p=113</link>
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		<title>Interested in developing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan? This grant program could help.</title>
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Is your community interested in developing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan or CWPP? CWPPs are local planning documents that facilitate a community discussion about the danger of wildfire and how to mitigate wildfire threat through targeted local actions, such as fuel reduction projects. Many communities develop their CWPPs by themselves, using free planning resources such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firescaping.org/blog/?p=218</link>
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		<title>New grant opportunity &#8211; CAL FIRE issues call for 2011 WUI grant applications &#8211; due July 27!</title>
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CAL FIRE has issued a call for applications for the 2011 Western Wildland Urban Interface grant program! Funded by the U.S. Congress, the goal of this program is to reduce the risk of wildland fires in WUI areas. Local participation in this program is highly encouraged. The program is open to fire safe councils, agencies, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firescaping.org/blog/?p=213</link>
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		<title>Lake Tahoe Holding Wildfire Awareness Week July 3-11</title>
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The Nevada Fire Safe Council, along with the University of Nevada and the University of California Cooperative Extension are working with other interested partners to put on the first Lake Tahoe Basin Wildfire Awareness Week. Though California and Nevada held statewide wildfire awareness weeks this spring, many second home owners in the Lake Tahoe Basin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firescaping.org/blog/?p=197</link>
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		<title>Santa Barbara County Firefighters Clearing Brush</title>
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Santa Barbara County firefighters are clearing brush along San Marcos Road as part of the County&#8217;s participation in the Ready, Set, Go! wildfire preparedness program which debuted in California last year. Santa Barbara County Fire has more information on Ready, Set, Go! at their website, and are urging residents to prepare their properties for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firescaping.org/blog/?p=190</link>
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		<title>Fire Prevention Program Hampered by Low Turn-Out</title>
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Southern Alabama volunteer firefighters spent an estimated 40-50 hours writing the grant and negotiating with FEMA to allow them to provide 270 smoke detectors and 70 fire extinguishers to the roughly 1500-1800 homes served by the Independence Volunteer Fire Department. This spring, they mailed out flyer inviting members of the community to come to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firescaping.org/blog/?p=184</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t get burned after a disaster</title>
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The aftermath of a major fire, as anyone who has lived through a wildfire will tell you can be confusing and upsetting. Residents are faced with numerous decisions. If they have suffered a loss, there are decisions to be made about how to protect, salvage, and repair what remains, and to begin replacing what was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.firescaping.org/blog/?p=176</link>
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