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Bonny Doon Fire Safe Council Meeting

The Bonny Doon Fire Safe Council will be meeting on the second Monday of each month at McDermott Station.

Bonny Dooners To Organize Fire Safe Council Responding to two years of fierce wildland fires, Bonny Doon community members are meeting February 17th to create a Fire Safe Council to prepare for future fires in the fire ecology surrounding them.

Who: The Bonny Doon Community.

What: The Bonny Doon community will gather to share their concerns about wildland fire and ideas for protection, then form a Fire Safe Council to act on these problems and solutions.

When: The second Monday of each month at 7 pm.

Where: McDermott Station

A Fire Safe Council is a grassroots community organization whose mission is mobilizing neighbors to protect their homes, communities, and environments from wildfire. Fire Safe Councils promote education, pool resources, and apply for grants to fund community efforts to increase fire safety. There are nearly 200 local Fire Safe Councils in California, under the umbrella of the California Fire Safe Council, http://www.firesafecouncil.org/. A Council can cover an area as small as the Pineridge neighborhood, or as large as Santa Clara County.

A Fire Safe Council will facilitate the collection of community input for the San Mateo/Santa Cruz County Community Wildfire Protection Plan. A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is the preferred planning process to enable community residents, local fire agencies and other interested parties to share information on common wildfire vulnerability. This group then works collaboratively to prioritize the projects that emerge from the group discussions. This process is invaluable in securing funds to help protect the community.

For more information, email prebdfsc@eshu.net, or call Joe Christy at 423-7151, Nadia Hamey at 457-6383, or Allan Lindh at 457-8848.

Bonny Doon has its first CERT team

CERT Training (with instructor Steph Marr) was held at the McDermott Station during the month of September to train 16 Bonny Doon Residents in disaster preparedness. We now have a CERT team in Bonny Doon! Bonny Doon Volunteer Fire and Rescue appreciates the efforts of each of the new CERT team members as well as their trainers and all of the volunteers that helped in the class. Contact Teri Mehegan or call at 458-1819 to sign up for future courses.

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Using the training learned in the classroom and during exercises, CERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help. CERT members also are encouraged to support emergency response agencies by taking a more active role in emergency preparedness projects in their community.

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