NEIGHBORHOOD FIRE PLANNING

Community neighborhood fire planning is based on neighbors getting together, with the assistance of the project coordinator, to share some basic information and find ways they can cooperate in an emergency. Each plan will be as different as the neighbors who make it.

The information gathered is for your use and will not be shared with anyone without your permission. A lot can be said about how times have changed and that neighbors used to help each other more, but another way of looking at it is that people are more willing, and better able to help if they know what to do.

Getting together to make a phone tree, find out what resources you have as a group, what the greatest dangers are in your own neighborhood and what is most important to you to protect, are things that can make all the difference when time is short and fear is running high. If everyone knows that Joyce would be happy for her front field to be a staging area or that Bob has a horse trailer and would haul animals would cut down on confusion and save time if needed. Are there animals that pose a special problem in an evacuation? Where DO you take an alligator? Does the older couple down the road need special help? Will fire fighters come up your driveway?

Is it worth a few evenings of your time to sit down and work these things out? To agree on what is important to as neighbors and what resources you have to protect it. I think so and hope that you do too. Another reason to participate in these meetings is to get help in reducing fire risk. At the moment there are programs available to assist both financially and physically with fuel reduction work and the neighborhood meetings will assist you to take advantage of them.

If you want to know more, or would like to help get your neighborhood together please call one of the community contact volunteers listed below:

Project Coordinator, Gail Perrotti 830-3781
Dennis Feeley (Evans Valley) 582-4191
Vicki Belknap (Sams Valley)
John Nally (Sams Valley) 830-8951
Claire Martin (Sams Valley) 826-8514
Shayne Maxwell (Foots Creek) 582-2020
Linda Tourville Davis (Sams Valley) 826-2897
Walt Fitzgerald (Sams Valley) 855-7933
Bill Collins (Sardine Creek) 855-1367
Marilyn Burbank (Evans Valley) 855-4593

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