Firewise® Madera County News

From Supervisor Wheeler’s office. Download attachments below:

Hello District 5 Constituents,

Please note that Supervisor Wheeler will be hosting his next town hall meeting in Raymond (31828 Rd 600) on Thursday February 23rd from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Please find the event flyer and draft agenda attached. Additionally I have attached the 2017 town hall schedule. Please note that the next town hall meeting will take place on Tuesday February 28th at Yosemite Lake Park (30250 Yosemite Springs Pkwy Coarsegold).

Look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers,
Brittany Dyer
District Chief of Staff, District 5

Attachments:

• Town Hall Agenda
• Town Hall Flyer

• Unsurprisingly, NASA study finds a relationship between wildfire and drought.
• Upcoming webinar on local fire department preparedness. Don’t miss it! Feb 22.
• Research shows that two different historical data sets on wildfire activity can be the most complete, depending on what type of information you are examining. So choose wisely!

• Join us May 6 for Wildfire Community Awareness Day!
• Congrats to Bright Oak and Teaford Meadows for earning Firewise® recognition! Several more neighorhoods are also earning theirs. You can too!
• A Four-Step Approach to Planning for Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Webinar.
• Winter fires raging in Oklahoma (Feb – March is Oklahoma’s peak wildfire season) remind us that it is important to be vigilant and firewise year-round.