Amador County – The Amador Fire Safe Council invited the public to attend a Wednesday, Dec. 14 public information and stakeholder meeting for its Community Conservation Wildfire Protection Plan for Pine Grove.

Amador Fire Safe Council Executive Director Cathy Koos-Breazeal said the Council was recently awarded a $50,000 grant by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy to develop a Community Conservation Wildfire Protection Plan for the greater Pine Grove area. The meeting Wednesday will be the second in a series of public information and stakeholder meetings that the Council will hold.

Breazeal said the Community Conservation Wildfire Protection Plan “includes the traditional aspects of a community wildfire plan with the addition of conservation elements aimed at watershed protection and forest health as well as protecting the community and its structures from the catastrophic effects of wildfire.”

She said: “Community risk assessments, evacuation routes, fire behavior and history are all elements of the plan,” and the recently completed Pioneer-Volcano Community Conservation Wildfire Protection Plan can be viewed on the Amador Fire Safe Council’s website.

Breazeal said “stakeholder input is a critical part of this project, so Amador Fire Safe Council will be collaborating with the public and incorporating their input into the plan.”

The Stakeholder meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14 at the Volcano Tech Center, 19888 Church Street in Pine Grove.

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