Deadline approaching for public input to Community Wildfire Protection Plan
The deadline for submitting recommendations and signing up for the Advisory Team is Wednesday, Jan. 12. Guidelines and submission forms are available at www.BoulderCountyCWPP.org.
“We have already received many important recommendations from residents on our website,” said Jim Webster, Community Wildfire Protection Planner in the Boulder County Land Use Department. “However, we know there are others who have come up with noteworthy ideas during this past year that have not yet shared their recommendations.”
Topics of the recommendations received to date include improving communication, planning evacuation and access routes, educating the public on wildfire mitigation, installing fire danger signs, collecting slash, funding fire suppression, and declaring and enforcing county fire bans.
“After this past year, not many initiatives are of equal importance,” Advisory Team member Kitty Stevenson said. “It is really exciting to see a community plan being developed on a larger countywide scale. It is important that people from all parts of Boulder County participate.”
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I live in a zone such as that that ignited and burned last spring. Because I live in an area where wildfire represents our most serious natural threat (or from man made fires), we keep a large supply of firefighting foam on hand in order to have a fighting chance at keeping our home and property protected. It’s inexpensive and, in case our electric goes out, we also have a gasoline fired sprayer that will provide us with enough foam to at least cover the house, decks and nearby trees that pose the biggest risk.
Having this stock on hand enabled us to quickly put out a truck fire on our property. The truck was sitting under a pinon tree when it erupted into flame. Traditional fire extinguishers barely touched it but the firefighting foam put it out immediately. I have since become a distributor of the foam and related equipment. This post isn’t so much an advertisement as it is a heads up, to alert folks that they do have options.