Fire safety is our priority

Meeting Details

Location: 180 Cambridge Ct, Grass Valley, CA 95945

Date: May 9. 2024

Pizza & Topic Tables: 6:00p.m. – 6:30p.m.
Presentations: 6:30p.m. – 8:00p.m.
Topic Tables: 8:00p.m. – 8:30p.m.

Presentations

Fuel Break Projects Near Greenhorn: Why You Should Care?
Presenter: Landon Haack, CAL FIRE
Defensible Space Programs for Landowners
Presenter: Jim Mathias, Fire Safe Council of Nevada County 
Beyond Burn Piles: Is Your Land Right for a Prescribed Burn?
Presenter: Dr. Jo Ann Fites, Wildfire and Natural Resources Consultant  
When Firefighters Are Called to a Wildfire
Presenter: Robert Tellam, Nevada County Consolidated Fire District
Selling, Buying, or Maintaining? The Defensible Space Law and Your Home
Presenter: Robert Tellam, Nevada County Consolidated Fire District
Latest on Getting and Keeping Fire Insurance in Nevada County
Presenter: Jeremy Frazier, Farmers Insurance

Topic Tables

Meet Your Fire and OES Professionals: Landon Haack (CAL FIRE), Robert Tellam (Nevada County Consolidated Fire)

Fire Safe Programs: Jim Mathias (Fire Safe Council), Nathan Alcorn (Nevada County Resource Conservation District)

Hand-Held Radios for Emergencies: John Deam and Mark Triolo (Greenhorn Radio Alert Group)

Chainsaw Use and Maintenance: Danny Childs (Hills Flat Lumber), Aaron Zueck (ACRT Vegetation Management)

Fire Insurance: Jeremy Frazier (Farmers Insurance)

Evacuation–Need to Know: Enrique Manzanilla (Greenhorn Firewise Evacuation Committee Chair)

Free Defensible Space Assessments: Paul Tebbel and Bill Ryerson (Defensible Space Advisors)

Neighbors Helping Neighbors: Paul Cummings (Nevada County Office of Emergency Services)