–San Luis Obispo County Assistant Fire Chief Alan Peters has announced his retirement.
After 16 years, from 1988-2004, working in the private timber industry all over the western United States, Chief Peters, a Registered Professional Forester, joined Cal Fire in 2005. He started his Cal Fire career as a fuels reduction Forester I in the Tuolumne/Calaveras Unit. In 2009, he promoted to his current Unit Forester position in the San Luis Obispo Unit, where he has served as the Pre-Fire Division Chief for over 11 years.
Peters has always promoted an “extremely ambitious agenda in SLO County,” according to the county. He has focused on all aspects of fire prevention including fuels reduction, public education, defensible space inspections, hazard mapping, forest health, and pre-fire planning. He was instrumental in the implementation of thousands of acres of fuels reduction treatments and prescribed burns, and hundreds of miles of roadside and fuel break treatments throughout the