Amador County – Amador Fire Safe Council’s “Community Conservation Wildfire Protection Plan” is entering final stages of its formulation and invites the public to a workshop Thursday to give details of the individual analysis of the fire risk of all of the areas of greater Pine Grove.

The Council invites “stakeholders,” that is, the members of the public, to attend a Community Conservation wildfire protection planning workshop for the Greater Pine Grove area.

Discussion and information will look to the public to get their input concerning fire safety, defensible space, and wildfire worries of greater Pine Grove area.

That area is a 55,000-acre Greater Pine Grove planning area, it is west of roughly Clinton Road, Jackson Rancheria and Pine Gulch; north to Shake Ridge Road; east to Rams Horn; and southeast to Pioneer-Volcano Road, Highway 26 and the Mokelumne River.

Cathy Koos Breazeal, Executive Director of the Amador Fire Safe Council announced the meeting, saying people should be sure to join the Amador Fire Safe Council for the next community meeting 7 p.m. Thursday, April 26 at the Pine Grove Town Hall on Highway 88. According to a brief issued Wednesday, the coming fire season will be above average.

Breazeal said in collaboration with residents, and state and local agencies, “we are in the final development stages of a Community Conservation Wildfire Protection Plan for the Greater Pine Grove Area.” She said “public input is critical to the success of this plan. Please come and tell us what your concerns are regarding wildfire.”

She said people may have questions or concerns about defensible space, safe exits from neighborhoods, water supplies, signs, whether their home is part of the wildfire fuel source, and whether people’s homes make it through a “fire storm.”

People are invited to see how their neighborhood “stacks up.” Over the past two months, Fire Safe Council has been driving every street, road and lane in the Greater Pine Grove area, conducting neighborhood risk assessments, gauging fuel models and risk. Breazeal said: “Come see how your neighborhood stacks up and learn tips on how to improve your home’s chance of surviving a wildland fire.”

The workshop includes refreshments, free landscaping DVDs, and carbon monoxide detectors for seniors.

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