Napa County jumpstarts fire season preparation with $6.4M
Napa County has allocated $6.4 million to jump start fire prevention efforts aimed at protecting vulnerable communities.
NAPA, Calif. - Napa County has allocated $6.4 million to jump start fire prevention efforts aimed at protecting vulnerable communities.
On Wednesday, fuel reduction crews were clearing hazardous vegetation from the Circle Oaks neighborhood near Atlas Peak. Heavy brush surrounds roughly 200 homes in the subdivision. Napa County Fire Chief Geoff Belyea said the crews created a shaded fuel break to help firefighters should a fire break out in the coming months. We re leaving the bulk of the mature trees and we re taking all the fuels out around them… so it makes the fire behavior less intense, Belyea said.
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Crew working in dense understory on the Land Trustâs Linda Falls Preserve to create a shaded fuel break. Mike Palladini, Land Trust of Napa County
The Napa Communities Firewise Foundation, Land Trust of Napa County, and the Angwin Fire Safe Council are collaborating to develop a mile-long Linda Falls fuel break to protect the rural hilltop community of Angwin.
âAngwin is one of the few places across Napa that has not burned in the last few years and therefore, wildfire risk mitigation there is seen as a county-wide priority,â said JC Greenberg, of Cal Fire and Napa County Fire who helped plan the project. âIt is encouraging to see this partnership develop and lead to real on-the-ground fuels reduction.â