Foothill Fire, Brownsville CA

Winds are picking up already. Please if you are burning today make sure your pile is 100% out before turning in tonight. Also burn permits are now required.

May 1st is this Saturday

Today, Friday April 23, is a No Burn Day in Yuba zone 4 (Calfire/USFS jurisdictions) due to high forecasted wind speeds. Agricultural burning with a valid burn... permit in Sutter zones 1-7 and Yuba zones 1-3 first call 634-7659 ext 201 to log your burn. Today is not a residential burn day. See more

Thank you Grass Valley!!

Burn Day Status Today, Saturday, April 10, 2021 is a permissive BURN DAY for agricultural burning on the valley floor of Yuba and Sutter counties. Today is a permissive residential Burn Day on the valley floor.... LIGHT TIME: 9:00 a.m. Wind forecast: Northerly 5-12 mph Sutter Zones 1-4: YES Sutter Zones 5 &6: YES Sutter Zone 7 (Sutter Buttes): YES Yuba Zones 1-3: YES Yuba Zone 4 (CalFire and US Forest Service jurisdiction areas): YES To Obtain a permit from Calfire here: https://burnpermit.fire.ca.gov/before-you-burn/ Agricultural burn information/log a burn: 530-634-7659 x201 Residential burn information: Call 530-741-6299 after 9:00 am to verify burn day status on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Last night volunteers practiced pump and draft operations. In our area drafting is very important.

Thank you for all your years of service Ann! Enjoy your retirement, you will be missed!

Please remember to water your tree. Thank you Camptonville Volunteer Fire Department for this post

No burning again tomorrow.

Earlier today all of our department Cadets completed their panel interviews. These interviews are meant to help teach them interviewing skills to prepare them f...or their future. As a department we would like to say congratulations to all of the cadets for completing their interviews. Congratulations Wyatt, Owen, Lincoln, Harrison, Calvin, and Emma. We would also like to thank all of the volunteers who were on the panel doing the interviews, Board of Directors Chair Mike Lee, Chief Mike Butler, Firefighter EMT Greg Stensler, and Firefighter Jacob Young. See more

Last night's tree lighting

Saturday night the 5th at 6pm. Yes it's tonight.

Please read this notice from Cal Fire. This applies to our area too.

This may help with getting our land line phones to stay on when the power is off. It's worth a try.

We would like to wish Ann a very Happy 98th Birthday! Ann has been a huge part of our auxiliary for many years and she has announced she will be retiring from service on December 19th. Thank you for all the time and dedication you have given to our fire department and our community. We will miss shopping at the thrift store and seeing your smiling face.

Thank you for posting this Camptonville Volunteer Fire Department

This is all we know....

All this weekend Foothill Fire along with La Porte Fire is doing their annual CPR/EMT/EMR recertification. Our firefighter have to do this every 2 years. Photos by Ron Phillips

Meet your Firefighter: Ryan McKillop Fire Captain Ryan McKillop and his wife Kristin of 12 years along their two daughters call Brownsville home. Ryan has lived in the Foothills area for 27 years. He is the vice president of Soper Wheeler co and a register professional forester #2675. Ryan joined the Foothill Volunteer Fire Department in 2002 he is a Field Apparatus’ Operator, Emergency Medical Technician , Medical Officer and became a Captain in 2019. When asked what do you enjoy about being a firefighter he replied Helping the communities and looking out for others. Ryan is also part of the Yuba Watershed & Firesafe Council, Foothill Calvary Chapel and CA LIF Forestry in Challenge. In his off time Ryan enjoys Forest Management, fuels reduction, woodworking, prescribed fire, resource mapping, big game hunting and turkey hunting.

Good Morning, now that everyone is finally able to go home I would like to say a few things. This is Chief Greene and I can say this is the biggest event in my 17 years on this department. Foothill Fire responded on September 8th around 11:30am to assist the United States Forest Service - Plumas to start evacuations. Foothill started in American House and worked down the hill to Woodleaf. After evacuation our crews mapped all the homes from American House to Clipper Mills.... At 11:25pm we were released and returned to Brownsville. At 11:50pm we were called to the Willow Fire. 5 Volunteers were able to respond in one engine and one water tender. We were released on September 9th at 3 pm. We took the 10th to make sure our family's were safe and to finally get some much needed rest. The morning of the 11th we were requested by the Forest Service again. Foothill Fire continued to assist the Forest Service on Mooreville Ridge until the September 22nd. The following day volunteers responded to the station to clean up the engines and be available in case needed for structure protection in Forbestown. I would like to thank each of our Volunteers for giving so much of their time. I would also like to thank a few retired volunteers as well. Bill Shaw, Dan Herbster, Jay Parnell, Tristin Marcher, Brandon Fox, Teresa Royat and Steven Elledge who came to assist in our communities time of need. Jeremy Alcala was also a big help along with Greg Stensler from the Dobbins Oregon House Volunteer Fire Department who came to help for a day. Fire season is not over by any means. Please don't let your guard down. Please be safe when using power equipment including generators around your properties. And with any luck we will get some rain soon. And please don't forget about those still fighting fires around California. All of us were very lucky, but so many have lost so much. Thank you for keeping this mountain strong and not giving up.

Good news on our side. Hopefully they can get the north side under control

Welcome home to our Foothill Community after 20 long days! Our missing piece of Forbestown has been released to return home!Welcome home to our Foothill Community after 20 long days! Our missing piece of Forbestown has been released to return home!

We are always looking for more volunteers. Next training is Dec 12th at 6:30pm come check it out.

Please be prepared

Getting closer to going home Forbestown. We are hearing Monday or Tuesday

Don't forget the dates

#NorthComplexWestZone Thursday morning operations update, with information about our successful firing operation we did yesterday.

EDITED POST: This is good. They are working to make sure nothing happens to Forbestown. As of today no homes have been lost in Forbestown. The rumors are not true. The store is still standing This post has been edited due to an individuals concern that shall remain nameless. The Foothill Volunteer Fire Department has worked day and night for the community for over 30 years and are committed to protecting our community.

Still working hard to save Forbestown. It looks worse than it is for now.

We would like to say THANK YOU to the Yuba Water Agency!!!! Today Foothill Fire was approved for a $10,000 Grant to purchase new pagers. For those of you who are not aware, pagers are how volunteers are notified to respond to emergencies.This Grant is The Bill Shaw Training Equipment Grant <3

Call before you burn...

We got some help today from GST 944

Permits will be REQUIRED. You may obtain permits thru CAL FIRES website.