Amador County – The U.S. Department of the Interior announced recently that it is planning a free California statewide wildfire prevention education and mitigation conference in June in Southern California.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs will be hosting the conference, which will be open to all Tribal, Federal, State, and County Agencies, Fire Safe Councils and Fire Wise Communities. The Fire Safe Council organization announced the conference on its website, and said it is tentatively scheduled to be in Southern California, June 6-9. The location for the conference still must be determined.

BIA plans two optional training opportunities to be offered June 6, with Track 1 being the “Community Wildfire Protection Plan,” and Track 2 being the “Juvenile Fire Screening Tool,” also called the “Oregon Model.”

The main conference will be held June 7-9. Several of the prevention topics are Creating Educational Media Clips, Teaching Middle School Youth, Investing in Fire Prevention, a Powerline Fire Case Study, Media Technology and Arson, Photography and Fire Prevention, Developing PowerPoint Presentations, Mapping Decisions, Identifying and Mitigating, and Fire Cause Classes.

Course coordinators are Regional Fire Prevention Officer Jim Nanamkin and Fire Prevention Specialist Soledad Holguin. They informally announced the conference, saying there will be no tuition.

The attendee is responsible for their travel, accommodations and meals. They said BIA is requesting a response of commitment or interest to determine the conference site location. Once the Bureau has determined its location, a formal announcement will go out.

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