TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
EL DORADO COUNTY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN
Plan Index Page I. Executive Summary II. Background
III. Introduction IV. Purpose and Scope V. Problems and Issues
VI. Goals of the EDCWPP VII. Strategic Action Plan Recommendations VIII. Communities with Fire Safe Plans (CWPP)
IX. Communities with Fire Safe Councils X. Guidelines for Listing Existing CAR and Rural Centers for CWPP Preparation XI. Listing of Market Areas, Community Regions, Rural Centers, Rural Regions, and CAR from the Federal Register
XII. Process for Selecting Communities for a Community Action Plan (CAP), CWPP Preparation, and Other Fire Safe Project Funding XIII. Standard Outline and Checklist for CWPPs XIV. Plan Updates

 
 

 

III. Introduction

Fire Safe planning is well developed in the County. The County Planning Department routinely requires a Fire Safe Plan for Tentative Maps and County Building Permits Conditions of Approval. Over 150 such plans have been developed and approved. California Public Resource Code #4291 which requires clearance of flammable vegetation from around structures has been enforced in some, but unfortunately not all jurisdictions for over 20 years. Public Resource Code #4290 and Title 14 Regulations for Fire Prevention and for the provisions of Fire Support Infrastructure in State Responsibility Areas (SRA) have been enforced since 1993. County Amendments to the SRA Fire Safe Regulations were adopted in 1986 and revised in 1988, 1989, and 1990. A proposal to provide additional fire prevention information by revisions to the County of El Dorado Design and Improvement Standards Manual has been funded by the El Dorado County Prevention Officers Association and the EDCFSC.

The California Uniform Building and Uniform Fire Codes govern most aspects of fire safety relating to structures of all types and uses of all kinds and require actions to reduce the loss of life and property. There are no similar Fire Safe Requirements that integrate such codes with the threat of multiple exposures to fire in wildland fire situations. Community Fire Safe Planning must recognize the threats which accompany the urban- wild land intermix as wildfires may start in either and threaten both.

The El Dorado County Fire Safe Council, organized in 2001, has been successful in bringing a Countywide Residential Chipping Program and a Senior and Disabled Assistance Program to residents of the county. Over a thousand home owners have taken advantage of the Chipper Program since the pilot in 2003 and in the first six months of full time operations, over 120 Senior and Disabled residents have benefited from this EDCFSC assistance program. It is anticipated, as resources become available, that both of these programs will expand to meet the needs of all El Dorado County residents. The EDCFSC has been instrumental in obtaining funding for various fuels management projects throughout the western slope of El Dorado County, as shown in the following:


Residential Chipping Program - helping residents help themselves.

 
Independence Fuel Break, Pollock Pines, CA
Mastication Treatment for Fuel Break

 
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