Vacation Beach Fire Safe Council

Please take this seriously! It is very dry. Let's work together to keep each other and our loved ones safe! Thank you!

In order to create a safe neighborhood for all of us and families it is important that we gather all of our individual skills and talents together. If you live in Vacation Beach, please take a moment to complete this Skills Form for us. https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSdfP-RXCC_XlqUrf/viewform We will not share your information outside of our Council. We will use this information to help us know what resources we have right here in our own neighborhood. Thank you in advance for taking the time to provide this very important information and for helping us create a more fire safe neighborhood.

Dear Vacation Beach Neighbors, Our Council has been working with Lynda Hopkins' office and the Department of Transportation and Public Works (TPW) over the last few months. We are trying to find a more permanent solution to the Vacation Beach river crossing in order to provide safe access out of our neighborhood, specifically during fire season. We have discussed many options, from ways to put the bridge in earlier and leave it in until December, to a permanent bridge. We are... thrilled to announce that the Board of Supervisors approved money at their June 9th meeting for a feasibility study for this project. Thank you to all who wrote letters in support of this to the five Supervisors! We will soon begin the process of working with TPW and an Engineering firm on this study. We are also working on writing grants and looking for more money to support the goal of building a permanent bridge. See more

Hi Neighbors, don't forget that this free webinar is tomorrow, Friday June 18th at 2 p.m. As we are already experiencing red flag warning days, we encourage you to consider attending this webinar to learn more about how to protect your home, and our neighborhood. Warm regards, Vacation Beach Fire Safe Council... Free Defensible Space Webinar! https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_qk6MW-7eSsiB_dzr_2fdmA This new webinar is brought to you by Fire Safe Sonoma and is part of the Northwest Roadway Safety, Fuels Reduction, and Community Chipper and Engagement Project, a Sonoma County Transportation and Public Works grant-funded project. The project is intended to reduce risks related to future wildfires by removing vegetation identified as hazards to firefighters and the public, in the interest of creating safe and smooth evacuations during an emergency. As part of this project, Fire Safe Sonoma is providing education and outreach efforts to encourage property owners in the targeted area to clear hazardous vegetation from their properties and to take advantage of the Sonoma County Fire Chipper Program. The Northwest Roadway Safety, Fuels Reduction, and Community Chipper and Engagement Project is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment particularly in disadvantaged communities.