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Residents Urged to Prepare for Wildfires Now
Sacramento
– With spring now taking hold in California, CAL FIRE is already staffing up for fire
season, while focusing the efforts of its crews on preventing large and damaging wildfires. Recent rains
have been a welcome sight to drought parched California, but CAL FIRE firefighters are not letting
their guard down, instead they are training for another potential busy fire season and working hard to
prevent wildfires. Across the State, CAL FIRE has alr
eady hired a surge of over 400 additional
seasonal firefighters, whose focus includes fire prevention, fuel reduction and defensible space
programs.
“While the winter rain has helped decrease the fire risk in some areas, it has not been enough to end the
drought,” said Chief Ken Pimlott, director of CAL FIRE. “The rain is welcome, but it will not revive
the millions of trees that have already died due to drought and bark beetle. Our firefighters are taking
advantage of the weather and ensuring that we are doing everything we can to prevent the types of
wildfires we experienced last year.”
While the additional firefighters are available to respond to wildfires, like the 240 fires that have
already occurred since January 1, these firefighters will focus thei
r efforts of fire prevention. The
projects the crews are working on range from removing dead trees, creating and maintaining fire
breaks, removing dense brush, performing prescribed burning, and assisting homeowners with
education on Defensible Space.
While firefighters are busy performing fire prevention projects, it’s critical that residents do their part
to prepare for wildfires by maintaining 100 feet of Defensible Space around their homes and property.
This includes removing weeds and other dead or dying vegetation, limbing up tree branches, and
cleaning off leaves and debris from roofs and gutters.
[Press Release]
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