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. Other local fire agencies within the county are not Cal Fire units and don't have this mandate and may or may not have similar annual plans and project inventories. Local fire personnel suggested that creating a shared directory of all the projects in various planning stages under the auspices of all fire agencies in Santa Barbara County would create significant value, enhance coordination among agencies and help identify opportunities for agency collaborations across jurisdictional boundaries as well as public-private partnership opportunities to advance shared resilience goals. This site (www.sbcwildfireresilience.org) could serve as that directory, with agency-led and community-led projects aggregated together into a more complete portfolio of wildfire resilience, prevention, preparation and mitigation projects. Maintaining this resource on an ongoing basis is a priority for coordinating resilience efforts in the county.
Link to Unit 2021 Plan: https://s3.amazonaws.com/siteninja/multitenant/assets/31989/files/original/SBC_Unit_Fire_Plan_2021__ADA_Final.pdf
Attached below is a table of all listed fire projects within the 2021 Plan
For further information on the Unit Plan please visit: https://www.sbcfire.com/pre-fire-planning. The site describes the plan this way:
"The 2021 Santa Barbara County Unit Strategic Fire Plan is developed with the Santa Barbara County Fire Department’s Mission Statement in mind and intended to serve as a collaborative local planning document. The Santa Barbara County Unit Strategic Fire Plan tiers under the 2018 California Strategic Fire Plan and the 2019 CAL FIRE Strategic Plan to identify goals and objectives to minimize wildland fire risk to county watersheds, communities, firefighters, the public and various other local assets. In combination, the three plans recognize wildland fires occur and works to answer the question of “how do we utilize and live with that risk of wildfire?”"
Status: Seeking Funding
Cost: Low
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Permitting: None
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