Fire Aside

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

Thank you to the Climate & Wildfire Institute for organizing a great event last week. We enjoyed the opportunity to join an amazing panel and discuss the intersection of data & technology for wildfire risk management. Christopher Anthony Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority Amy Berry Hussam Mahmoud Truckee Fire

It was a privilege to represent our team and all the communities using Fire Aside yesterday at the White House FireTech Innovation Roundtable. Opening comments by Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell stressing the importance of focusing on structure to structure congregation in wildfire were spot on. Healthy discussion on barriers and policy ideas to help our communities adapt to wildfire I even managed to fit in a defensible space evaluation! Christopher Anthony Don Moore Dustin Liebman Sonia Kastner John Clarke Mills Jay Ribakove Bob Horton Todd Lando Kim Zagaris Genevieve Biggs Allison Wolff Maxwell Brodie Bill Clerico

Love this quote: "... all of this points to a community that is beginning to believe that their best chance of survival of their property is not luck, or insurance, or anything other than the work they do to create a resilient community." Solid article on all the hard work the team at Berkeley Fire and the residents are doing to help reduce their wildfire risk. It takes a full systems approach to change risk in the community but this is how we do it. David Sprague Shanalee Gallagher, MPP Christopher Anthony Frank Frievalt Brendan Devlin

Boulder Fire Rescue continues to innovate and push hard on helping their community becomes resilient. Honored to help support their mission and their residents. Danielle McNutt Christopher Anthony Ralph Bloemers Don Moore Seth Schalet Dustin Liebman Craig Snodgrass Harley Ewert