The Lassen Fire Safe Council announces its August meeting — 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21 at the Susan River Fire Hall, 705-145 Highway 395 in Johnstonville.
Items on the agenda include the Managing Director’s Report (CalFire Grants — Hog and Sheep fire restoration, Shingletown WUI fuels treatment, Dyer Mountain WUI fuels treatment, Whitmore Forest and Watershed restoration, Clear Creek and Hog Flat fuel treatment, and RFFCP Hazard Assessment); SMC grants — Bootsole, East side communities and Diamond Mountain; and other — Honey Lake Valley RCD-SPA, California Fire Safe Council county coordinator, USFS Cradle Valley/Bootsole Dixie Fire salvage and defensible space assistance grant); closed out projects; new planned/awarded projects (South Lasse Wildfire Recovery Project); agency updates (BLM, CalFire, SNC, USFS, Lassen County OES, SPI, Honey Lake Power, Lassen County, Honey Lake RCD, Red Cross and Firewise community leaders); guest speaker; and public comment.
Guest speaker Bill Jacks, of the Terra Fuego Resource Foundation, will discuss the Five Dot Ranch Project.
Light refreshments will be served.
The Lassen Fire Safe Council’s next regularly scheduled meeting will be held Sept. 18.
Four firefighters, two helicopter pilots and a contractor bulldozing a fireline have died in Colorado, Utah and Oregon this year. Fast-moving fires have burned…
