# Presentation: 092440

## Interagency Fire Prevention Team 

- Interagency Fire Prevention Team

## Major Team AccomplishmentsJuly 10-July 26

** ****Grocery Bag flyers (Smiths/Albertsons)**
** ****Fire-Resistant Plant List**
** “****Firewise 2000” PPT Presentation**
** “****Train the Trainer” for Fire Depts.**
** ****Presentation to Park City FD**
** ****Contacts with Homeowners Associations**
** ****Media Releases**
** ****Days of ’47 Rodeo**

**Major Team Accomplishments****July 10-July 26**

## Objectives

**To reduce the occurrence of human-caused fires and develop Firewise communities:**

** ****Continue to increase awareness of existing fire hazards in the interface along the Wasatch Front.**
** ****Continue to distribute Fireworks safety posters and flyers to target fireworks vendors and users.**
** ****Continue to re-establish contact with Tooele County fire managers.**
** ****Develop and coordinate key messages to be used statewide for current fire season – “Days of ’47,” Labor Day, and Hunting Season.**
** ****Provide interagency expertise in public relations and outreach to develop Firewise communities.**

**Objectives**

## Tactics

**Tactics**

** ****Distribute Firewise Community materials**** **
** ****Post fire hazard/fire restriction information**
** ****Distribute fireworks/smokey messages**
** ****theaters**
** ****grocery stores/garden stores**** **
** ****fire departments**
** ****homeowners associations**
** ****media**
** ****web sites**
** ****community information centers**
** ****public events**

## Theatre Slides

**Theatre Slides**

## Theatre Slides

**Theatre Slides**

## Grocery Bags/Plant List

** ****Distributed “survivable space” flyer:**
** ****Smiths–Ogden to Provo along the East Bench**
** ****Albertsons**
** ****Gas Stations/Convenience Stores on Wasatch**
** ****Red Hawk HA/Park City**** **
** ****Developed and distributed “plant list”:**
** ****Home Depot**
** ****Nurseries**
** ****Red Butte Garden Arboritum**

## PPT Presentation

**PPT Presentation**

***Firewise***

**COMMUNITY AWARENESS**

## “Train the Trainer”

**“****Train the Trainer”**

## Presentation in Park City

**Presentation in Park City**

## Fire Departments

** ****Bountiful Fire Department**
** ****Sandy Fire Department**
** ****Salt Lake City Fire Department**
** ****Salt Lake County Fire Department**
** ****Stansberry Fire Department**
** ****Terra Fire Department**
** ****Tooele Fire Department**
** ****Park City Fire Department**
** ****Vernon Fire Department**

** ****Contacted and distributed materials to:**

## Local Area Photos

**Local Area Photos**

## Presentations to Homeowners

**Presentations to Homeowners**

## Homeowners Assn.

** ****Gave materials/made presentations to:**
** ****Elk Creek HA/Woodland Hills**
** ****Emmigration Canyon HA**
** ****North Fork FAC/Sundance**
** ****Red Hawk HA/Park City**** **
** ****Contacted:**
** ****Christmas Meadows**
** ****Eagle Landing**
** ****Hobble Creek**
** ****Silver Lake**
** ****Soapstone Summer HA **** **

## Media Contacts

**Media Contacts**

## Media Contacts

** ****Sent out news releases statewide**
** ****Contacted local TV stations for feature article on “How Fire Managers Assess Fire Danger”**
** ****Fire/Fireworks Restrictions**
** ****Defensible Space**
** “****Train the Trainer”**
** ****High Fire Danger**
** ****Lack of Resources**

## Days of ’47 Rodeo

**Days of ’47 Rodeo**

## Suggestions for Continuation

** ****Look into developing local fire coops**
** ****Continue contacts with homeowners**
** ****Develop evacuation procedures**
** ****Ban fireworks sales with fireworks restrictions**

**Suggestions for Continuation**

**SHORT TERM:**

**LONG TERM:**

** ****Pursue video shoot with Karl Malone**
** ****Include fire danger rating graphic in newspapers**
** ****Pursue article in local papers on assessing fire danger**

## Utah Interagency Fire Prevention Team 

**Special thanks to:**
**Jay, Roger, Jeff, Katie, and Stacey**

- Utah Interagency Fire Prevention Team