Fire Aside

Thank you to the Tahoe Fund for the support and the opportunity to present on how our platform is helping the fire agencies and residents in the Basin adapt to wildfire. The vision to integrate resources such as the Fire Aside Platform for the built environment along with tools like Vibrant Planet & BurnBot really is making Tahoe's forest the smartest forest on the planet! #WildFirePrevention #SmartestForest Amy Berry Caitlin Meyer Christopher Anthony Scott Conway Anukool Lakhina

Great spotlight on the work by residents removing fuel near their structures. #ChipperDay

Thank you to the Arizona WUI Summit for creating a great event and proud to help support our existing (and new) local partners. Tomorrow we will share some insights on new models to increase community engagement and measure wildfire risk reduction.

Every property is different and every resident is different so stop using 1 size fits all messaging! Join us next week as Battalion Chief and Wildfire Hazard Mitigation Specialist Todd Lando will share how he used our new engagement tools with customized messaging to increase actions by residents 3x. Registration Link:    https://lnkd.in/ggRG_6VZ  

Thank you to Molly Curley O'Brien Piper Cole and Josh Hampshire for a great discussion around resident financial assistance for wildfire. We talked about lessons learned to get residents to have 'skin in the game', going from low demand to high demand when we were processing an application a minute, to issuing 1099s (and how there is an exemption to prevent taxable income in this situation), and a whole lot more. If you were unable to make it and would like the notes and recording drop us a direct note here or on the website. #WildfireResilience

Great resource for the $200 million available in the next round of CWDG grants.

"We spend too much staff time helping our communities apply for and renew their Firewise designations". This was a comment we heard a month ago from an agency partner that set a goal to get every resident into an active and approved Firewise neighborhood. We agree: no one should waste staff time pulling together this data... Our new Firewise dashboard is out of beta and available to all our partners. You can use it for renewals or draw a new neighborhood and pull the stats for their application. Over 40% of the Firewise communities in California are already covered by a Fire Aside partner. This means they can spend more time on high impact activity in the community and less time doing paperwork. NFPA California Fire Safe Council Seth Schalet Christopher Anthony J. Lopez Fire Safe Marin Santa Clara County FireSafe Council Ventura Regional Fire Safe Council Fire Safe Council of Nevada County, Inc. Napa Communities Firewise Foundation Dustin Liebman Jerry McAdams

Excited to help start a trade group for Firetech companies alongside friends like Matt Weiner, Molly Hausmann, Timothy Barat, Sonia Kastner, Jason Brooks, Jonny Dyer & Maxwell Brodie. https://lnkd.in/euRXtr-x cc: Pano AI Gridware Fire Aside Muon Space Convective Capital

Some of the top questions from our community partners are around resident grants and direct assistance. This will be a great session for program managers to learn, ask questions, share knowledge.

Thank you Seth Schalet and the team at Santa Clara County FireSafe Council for all the great work you do in your community. We are proud to help power your mission. #WildfirePrevention #FireTech