Houses Built to Fight Fires

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Building fire-resistant homes and modifying existing homes with fire-resistant materials is becoming ever more important in the wildland-urban interface.  The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted several families that have chosen to rebuild with fire-resistant materials after wildfires burned their homes.  Take a look at these homes to get ideas for how to integrate fire-resistant materials in your home.

Houses Built to Fight Fires – The Wall Street Journal 

 

 

Pile Burning Schedule for 2/26 & 2/27 near Divide

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The Coalition for the Upper South Platte’s fuels management crews are scheduled to pile burn on Wednesday, Feb 26 & Thursday, Feb 27.

Crews will begin burning piles located north of Divide within the Ute Lakes Fishing and Recreation Club.  Burning will occur as weather and conditions allow throughout the next few months.

Smoke may be visible. Smoke-sensitive residents should consider staying indoors and keeping doors, windows and outside vents closed.

Fuels management staff will post road signs around the areas affected by the pile burns and send Nixel notifications.  For more information please contact – cusp@uppersouthplatte.org, or call 719.748.0033

Radical approach to protecting wildland-urban interface

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Faced with these dire circumstances, 20 of the West’s most influential wildfire experts gathered in Jackson Hole, Wyo., at a closed-door Wildfire Solutions Forum last month in an effort to generate radical ideas on how to lessen future fire danger in Western communities. The theme of the event centered on one question: How can we control the pace, scale and pattern of future development of the wildland-urban interface, or WUI? Across the West, 84 percent of this interface – where federal public land abuts private land within a 1/3-mile radius – remains undeveloped.

This “84 percent” was a rallying cry for the two-day forum, and symbolized a need to shift wildfire conversation away from the portion of WUI that is already developed. This is breakthrough thinking in the world of wildfire policy, where the priority has been to protect existing communities rather than venturing into the realm of future development.

Read the full article – A wildfire forum takes radical approach to protecting wild land-urban interface – on The Goat Blog

 

Pile Burning Scheduled for 2/14 near Divide

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The Coalition for the Upper South Platte’s fuels management crews are scheduled to pile burn on Friday, Feb 14.

Crews will begin burning piles located north of Divide within the Ute Lakes Fishing and Recreation Club.  Burning will occur as weather and conditions allow throughout the next few months.

Smoke may be visible. Smoke-sensitive residents should consider staying indoors and keeping doors, windows and outside vents closed.

Fuels management staff will post road signs around the areas affected by the pile burns and send Nixel notifications.  For more information please contact – cusp@uppersouthplatte.org, or call 719.748.0033

Importance of Mitigation

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Why is wildfire mitigation so important?  Check out the Colorado Springs Gazette’s conversation with two wildfire experts for their insights on the importance of wildfire mitigation in the wildland-urban interface and how the lessons from the Black Forest Fire can be used to help us better prepare for the next major wildfire.

Wildfire experts share insight into Black Forest fire and importance of mitigation by the Colorado Springs Gazette

Prescribed Burning Rules

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The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control has adopted new prescribed burning rules.  The rules will be reviewed by the Attorney General’s Office and the Office of Legislative Legal Services before they go into effect.

See the Rules and Regulation Concerning Prescribed Burning in Colorado and the Colorado Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Policy Guide for more information.