VIDEO: March Fire Safe Presentations
Presentation: Changes in fire risk from climate chaneg in San Mateo County. Isabel Pares Ramos, San Mateo Office of Sustainabiity and LeRoy Westerling, UC Merced.
Wildfire Cameras Installed in Several San Mateo County Locations
Thanks to sponsorship from CAL FIRE, PGE, and local fire agencies, ALERTWildfire has installed several wildfire cameras in strategic locations throughout San Mateo county and the western United States.
ALERTWildfire is a consortium of three universities -- The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), University of California San Diego (UCSD), and the University of Oregon (UO) -- providing access to state-of-the-art Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) fire cameras and associated tools to help firefighters and first responders: (1) discover/locate/confirm fire ignition, (2) quickly scale fire resources up or down appropriately, (3) monitor fire behavior through containment, (4) during firestorms, help evacuations through enhanced situational awareness, and (5) ensure contained fires are monitored appropriately through their demise.
To view wildfire cameras and get more information on ALERTWildfire, follow the link below:
Wildfire Temporary Jobs Assistance Program
Celia Hare of the Center for Employment Training (based in San Jose, CA) presented at the March Fire Safe Council meeting. She shared information about the 2020 August Wildfire Temporary Jobs Assistance Program which is currently serving San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. This program is focused on public or non-profit land post-fire clean up by their crews.
At this time, the program is both identifying potential job sites and recruiting people for the program.
If you are interested in leanring more, please reach out to Celia Hare:
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