Expand Cachuma Resource Conservation District Capacity

Expand Cachuma Resource Conservation District Capacity

The Cachuma Resource Conservation District (CRCD) plays a critical role in our community as a partner to and bridge between farmers, ranchers and other landowners and conservation groups and agencies focused on the health of our land, water, soil, wildlife, agriculture and food systems.

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Interactive Partner Directory: Santa Barbara County Wildfire Resilience Players

Interactive Partner Directory: Santa Barbara County Wildfire Resilience Players

There are many people, organizations and agencies working in the fire readiness and climate resilience fields here in Santa Barbara County, but even professionals dedicated to wildfire prevention in the county are not necessarily aware of and connected to everyone else doing this work.

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Coordinated Effort to Implement Recommended Actions in Existing CWPPs

Coordinated Effort to Implement Recommended Actions in Existing CWPPs

Community Wildfire Protection Planning is a structured process that helps communities assess their preparedness for wildfires, identify priority actions and secure policy guidance from their elected leaders so that fire protection agencies…

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Fire Safe Council Staff and Capacity

Fire Safe Council Staff and Capacity

The Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council has been an entirely volunteer-run organization without paid staff up until now, but the SBC FSC is now the recipient of significant grant funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation via a new project called the Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program (RWMP).

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Reassess Fire Fighting Systems, Strategy, Policy and Building Codes

Reassess Fire Fighting Systems, Strategy, Policy and Building Codes

Our current fire resilience infrastructure and strategies are built on a series of assumptions that may no longer hold true. We have interior fire sprinklers designed to suppress single home fires with a deluge of water…

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Shelter in Place Strategy Research: Assess Potential in WUI Areas at Risk of Wildfires that Outpace  Ability to Evacuate (Fire Proof Emergency Shelters)

Shelter in Place Strategy Research: Assess Potential in WUI Areas at Risk of Wildfires that Outpace Ability to Evacuate (Fire Proof Emergency Shelters)

Home hardening increases the likelihood that a home survives a wildfire, but hardened homes do not provide a safe place of refuge in the event that a fast moving wildfire cuts off evacuation routes and forces residents to shelter in place.

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Unified Fire Prevention Project Tracking Website

Unified Fire Prevention Project Tracking Website

Santa Barbara County Fire Department (SBCFD) serves as Santa Barbara County's Cal Fire Unit and regularly produces an Annual Strategic Unit Plan as mandated by Cal Fire that inventories the fire prevention projects SBCFD has in various stages of its planning and implementation processes.

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Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) Where Needed Throughout the County

Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) Where Needed Throughout the County

While several areas of Santa Barbara County benefit from the preparation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans, there are several areas of the County that do not currently have a plan that covers them.

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