Mendocino County
Fire Safe Council
151 Laws Avenue #B
P.O. Box 1488
Ukiah, CA
95482-1488
707-462-3662
firesafe@pacific.net
It's
up to us...
About the Mendocino County Fire
Safe Council
History of the MCFSC
Join the MCFSC (67k pdf)
printable html file is HERE
NEW - Site Map
Find ANY page here
Photo Gallery (being developed)
Fire Safety Publications
in .pdf format (sizes shown)
Fire Safety Articles
as web pages (Most but not all are from our .pdfs as above)
Mendocino County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (4.5mb pdf)
Learn About California Fire Safe Councils (Wikipedia)
Re-thinking Wildfires, an opinion
Plan Ahead for Survival
Fire and the Environment
Burn Permit information!
List of County Fire Stations
Links to Important Resources
Our Sponsors!
United Policyholders tips
on home insurance
Other Links
The following documents are some of our publications in printable PDF format with the size indicated:
Living With Wildfire 2007 (9MB PDF File)
Living With Wildfire 2009 (37mb PDF file)
Also available in print from most local and CAL FIRE stations, and from MCSFC.
Call or email us for it.
Living With Wildfire
as text-only webpages
Wildfire Risk Assessment Form 2010 (90K)
Creating a Fire Safety Zone (24K)
Fire Protection Water Supply (1.2MB)
Horse Owner Preparedness (19K)
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About the California "Fire Prevention Fee"
Click HERE for an update on the status of this fee
as of 29 December 2011
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If you plan to build or add to your house, you should read this first (4.5mb pdf file).
Home Survival in Wildfire-Prone Areas - Building Materials and Design Considerations
If you use -- or are planning to use -- mulch near your home, read
this first:
The Combustibility of Landscape Mulches" (1.5mb pdf file).
The link is:
http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/files/nr/2011/sp1104.pdf
The CAL FIRE statewide wildfire map can be found HERE
Is your home water supply available for firefighting?
Every year many homes are lost to fire because water was not available for firefighters. The homes may have had 10,000 gallons of water -- but firefighters couldn’t access it because the tanks lacked the correct fittings.
Our full-color pamphlet “Developing Water Supplies for Fire Protection” describes how to overcome this problem – and we have just reprinted it due to popular demand!
For a free copy, send a self-addressed, business-size envelope to
Mendocino County Fire Safe Council,
P.O. Box 1488,
Ukiah, CA 95482
If you would like copies for your road association, ranch, or subdivision, please let us know. Please CONTACT US about how many you need.
View the pamphlet as a 1.38 MB pdf file HERE. |
Now Available: “Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions” is a superb 19-minute DVD featuring the work of Jack Cohen, a wildfire researcher with the U.S. Forest Service. Cohen shows how homes really catch on fire, why some homes are destroyed while others survive, and what you need to do around your home to keep it from igniting. Write or email us for a free copy!
New article - Hard Facts About How Homes Burn - a must read!
Much of the information on this site is originally in .pdf format. Most .pdf files larger than 100 kb are also be posted as smaller file webpages for the benefit of people without high-speed connections... see Fire Safety Articles.
The exception is the Mendocino County Community Wildfire Protection Plan which is available only as a 4.5 mb .pdf file.
Since 2004, your Fire Safe Council
has been working helping people, property, and resources survive and thrive in a
fire-prone wildland environment.
The council:
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Conducts educational meetings
and tours, showing people how to
prepare for wildfires in their own
neighborhoods.
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Obtains federal funding for
projects to reduce residents’
wildfire risks. So far the Council has
completed or assisted withprojects in Hopland,
Brooktrails,
Pine Mountain (Willits), Piercy, Caspar, Philo, Boonville, Rancho Navarro, Yorkville,
Laytonville, Redwood Valley, Greenfield Ranch, and Willowbrook/Sherwood Forest Hills.
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Creates improved maps of rural
areas for use by firefighters.
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Promotes use of reflective road and house
number signs meeting California
standards and safety requirements.
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Helps local Fire Safe Councils to
form, including these:
Big Cow Mountain (Ukiah)
Black Bart Trail (Redwood Valley)
Brooktrails/Sylvandale/Spring Creek
Willowbrook/Sherwood Forest Hills
Caspar
Deerwood
Greenfield Ranch
Island Cove Estates
McNab Ranch
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Robinson Creek
Road
Oak Knoll Road (Ukiah)
Pine Mountain (Willits)
Shafer Ranch Road
Ridgewood Park
Singley Ranch (Ukiah)
Upper Parducci Road
Woodman Canyon (Laytonville) |
Meetings of the Board of Directors of the Mendocino County Fire Safe
Council are normally held on the third Tuesday of the month, at the Ukiah Valley Fire District, 1500 S. State Street
(corner of Laws Avenue, across from the airport), in Ukiah, and are
open to the public. Please contact us or call 462-3662 for exact dates and
locations. If you would like to receive regular notifications of
meetings by email, please let us know. Meeting locations are
wheelchair accessible.
The next Board of Directors meeting will be Tuesday, October 18, at
5:30 p.m.
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