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Under this agreement, Contract Counties are responsible for providing initial attack response to fires on SRA within their counties.  CAL FIRE provides funding to the six counties for prevention and suppression of wildland fire on the SRA.  This funding provides fire protection services including salary and wages of suppression crews, maintenance of firefighting facilities, pre-fire management positions, special repairs, and administrative services. Currently, the state funds 84 fire engines, 12 bulldozers, 12 hand crews, 32 fire prevention officers, and 42 positions within the 6 emergency command centers of the six counties.
CAL FIRE continues to provide other services to Contract Counties including urban forestry grants, resource management assistance, fire investigation support, and training.  

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Preventing Wildfire
We’re mitigating the risk of devastating wildfire through proven fire-prevention strategies. Crews create fuel breaks and controlled burns to reduce fuel in forests, and partner with local agencies to manage vegetation.

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Maintaining the Balance

Our work aims to protect and increase healthy forests. We conduct research, enforce regulations, and restore ecosystems.

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Fire Safety Outreach

How you handle campfires and fireworks can keep all of us safe. Prepare your home and family for wildfire season with home hardening and evacuation plans. Find trusted fire safety information from CAL FIRE.

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Unprecedented State investments are powering wildfire resilience and forest health. Our grants provide training to rural fire departments, bolster the forest sector workforce, and support prevention and preparation in fire-threatened communities.

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Fuels Reduction

Fuels reduction activities are a key tool for fire fighters, land managers, and property owners. These activities include the removal or reduction of overgrown vegetation through the use of prescribed fire, tree thinning, pruning, chipping, and roadway clearance. Learn more about our ongoing Fuel Reduction Projects. 

Innovation in Biomass


Repurposing excess woody material can provide revenue to landowners and decrease fire risk. And, it is a carbon-neutral fuel source that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil. We are facilitating conversations to bring biomass energy from research stages to larger-scale utilization. 

Mobile Equipment Program


CAL FIRE operates a fleet of more than 3,000 mobile equipment vehicles, which includes: Fire engines, bulldozers, crew carrying vehicles, administrative vehicles, mobile kitchen units, mobile communications units, trailers, forklifts, construction equipment, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, and even insect control vehicles. 

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When California is under siege with wildland fires across the state and resources are stretched thin, agreements with our local government cooperators through the California Fire Assistance Agreement (CFAA) and the California Military Department provide for California National Guard resources. The local government agencies provide personnel and equipment throughout the state and the National Guard provide Fire Crews, C-130 aircraft known as Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS), water dropping and medical rescue helicopters, support personnel, communications equipment, and other specialized resources.


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Since the 1940s, local government entities such as cities, counties and districts have contracted with CAL FIRE to provide many forms of emergency services for their communities. CAL FIRE provides full-service fire protection to many of the citizens of California through the administration of 118 cooperative fire protection agreements in 31 of the State's 58 counties, 39 cities, 25 fire districts and 42 other special districts and service areas. As a full-service fire department CAL FIRE responds to wildland fires, structure fires, floods, hazardous material spills, swift water rescues, civil disturbances, earthquakes, and medical emergencies of all kinds. Local governments are able to utilize this diversity and experience through their contracts and agreements with the Department.
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Shasta

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The following Cities have Cooperative Fire Protection Agreements with CAL FIRE. Cooperative Fire Protection Agreements can be for a wide variety of services depending upon a local government entities needs. CAL FIRE provides service to all the cities listed below. Service provided to cities within Riverside County is provided through cooperative agreements with Riverside County Fire. CAL FIRE provides service to Riverside County Fire through a cooperative agreement.

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Dos Palos - MMU
Lake Elsinore - RRU
Palm Desert - RRU
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We provide resources to protect and restore disturbed and degraded forests, maximizing their values, enhancing ecosystem functions, and increasing resiliency from climatic impacts. 

Cultural Resources Management


Cultural heritage resources, which include places where past events occurred and where material traces of these events can be found, are especially vulnerable.  Such traces include archaeological, historical and tribal cultural sites, structures, objects, features, places, cultural landscapes, sacred places and artifacts. 

Wood Products and Bioenergy


CAL FIRE's Wood Products and Bioenergy team seeks to maintain and enhance the forest-sector workforce and businesses of California to promote healthy resilient forests throughout the state by supporting a diverse set of business development and workforce development projects. 

Forest Health

Conserving forests and improving forest health by significantly increasing fuels reduction, fire reintroduction, treatment of degraded areas and conservation of threatened forests with landscape-scale projects developed and led by regionally-based efforts.  
 

Forest Entomology and Pathology

Forest pests (insects and diseases) now annually destroy 10 times the volume of timber lost due to forest fires. Our forest pest specialists help protect the state's forest resources from native and introduced pests, and promote forest health on all forest lands. 

Forest Practice

The Forest Practice Rules are founded on well-established science which encourages a productive, fire resistant, healthy forest. CAL FIRE enforces the Rules on California timberlands to balance sustainable timber harvesting with the protection of our natural resources.
 

Prescribed Fire

Where conditions allow, we are actively removing overgrown vegetation through the careful use of prescribed fire. These efforts promote forest health and create conditions that change fire behavior, reduce negative ecosystem impacts, and enable fire fighters to better protect communities. 

Urban and Community Forestry

Trees improve the quality of life in urban areas in many ways. We provide technical assistance, education, and grants to help communities improve their urban forests. 

Vegetation Management

The Vegetation Management Program (VMP) is a cost-sharing program that focuses on the use of prescribed fire, and some mechanical means, for addressing wildland fire fuel hazards and other issues on State Responsibility Area lands. 

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2021 Wildfire Season Updates & ResourcesPublished: Aug 19, 2021Emergencies, disasters, hazards, and threats are a part of our work at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES). Preparing for, responding to, and helping Californians recover from them are a part of our DNA. California is very clearly experiencing the impacts of a changing environment.
In 2021, the state has already seen extreme heat waves, drought conditions, and wildfires earlier than previous years. Our current climate is a reminder for all Californians to be prepared ahead of the next emergency.
Current Incidents: 

2021 Dixie Fire (English & Spanish)
2021 Caldor Fire (English & Spanish)
2021 Monument Fire (English & Spanish)

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Preparing for Disasters
Don’t Wait, Evacuate! (English)
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Federal Management Assistance Grants: 

Caldor Fire (El Dorado County)
Dixie Fire (Butte & Plumas Counties)
Monument Fire (Trinity County) & Dixie Fire (Lassen County)
Lava Fire (Siskiyou County)
River Fire (Nevada & Placer Counties)

State of Emergency Proclamations: 

Siskiyou, Lassen & Plumas Counties
Plumas, Butte, Lassen & Alpine Counties
El Dorado County
Trinity, Tehama & Shasta Counties
Siskiyou, Placer & Nevada Counties

General Recovery Resources:
Climate and Energy Program | CAL FIRE
Climate and Energy Program staff manage grant programs key to promoting healthy and resilient forests, contribute to state climate policy, and support the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force.

The Forest Health team administers Forest Health grants. Funded primarily by California Climate Investments, these grants support active restoration and reforestation activities aimed at providing for more resilient and sustained forests.
The Wood Products and Bioenergy team administers Business and Workforce Development grants. These grants seek to maintain and enhance the wood products infrastructure of California to support healthy resilient forests along with the people and ecosystems that depend on them.
Tribal Wildfire Resilience grants support California Native Tribes in managing ancestral lands, implementing and promoting Traditional Ecological Knowledges in wildfire resilience, and establishing wildfire safety for tribal communities. CAL FIRE manages these grants in collaboration with the California Natural Resources Agency. 
The Climate Change team supports key CAL FIRE climate programs in complying with the law, maintaining accountability to the public, and benefiting disadvantaged and low-income communities. The team’s information, analysis, and reporting advances the Department’s efforts to promote healthy, resilient forests and contributes to the state’s climate and biodiversity goals.
The Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force was created by Governor Gavin Newsom to bring together an unprecedented coalition of the best available resources for preventing catastrophic wildfires by creating healthier, more sustainable natural environments.
Learn more about the benefits of CAL FIRE's Forest Health program

 

 


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Forest protection and management can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions primarily through the process of sequestration.  Trees pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it to cellulose through the process of photosynthesis.  As part of the Governor's Climate Action Team, CAL FIRE identified and has begun to analyze potential opportunities for GHG mitigation from the following activities:

Reforestation: Reforestation is the planting and re-establishment of trees on lands that were previously covered with native forests. Mature forests store more carbon than brush or grasslands, therefore reforestation of burned, diseased or harvested sites will speed up the rate of C02 sequestration and provide more mitigation benefits in the near term.
Remembering the Camp Fire | CAL FIRE
The towns of Paradise and Concow were almost completely destroyed, each losing about 95% of their structures. 

Fire resources were stretched as the fire began on the same day as the Woolsey Fire and the Hill Fire in Southern California. Camp Fire resource requests alone equaled the entire 6,000 Cal Fire full-time fire professionals.
At the height of deployment, there were 5,596 firefighters battling the blaze.
CAL FIRE will never forget the individuals who lost their lives, or the bravery of those who responded. 

Into the Fire
A retrospective on the first several hours of the Camp Fire, as told by the CAL FIRE Fire Fighters and civilians who were there that day. 
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Tribal Wildfire Resilience grants is part of CAL FIRE’s Climate and Energy Program and supports California Native American tribes in managing ancestral lands, implementing and promoting Traditional Environmental Knowledges in wildfire resilience, and establishing wildfire safety for tribal communities.
Tribal Wildfire Resilience grants fund planning and implementation projects that serve California Native American Tribes and advance wildfire resilience, forest health, and cultural use of fire. These projects address critical needs in tribal communities, and may include:

Cultural and prescribed burns
Creation and maintenance of shaded fuel breaks
Forest and wildfire resilience projects such as dead and dying tree removal, understory thinning and/or removal, tree or other native and/or traditional vegetation plantings
Forest health projects that provide benefits such as increasing biodiversity and improving access to and use of traditional foods and culturally significant species
Workforce Development and training programs in fire, forestry, and related Traditional Ecological Knowledges
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Biological and cultural surveys
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Applications are currently closed.
The next grant solicitation is tentatively expected in summer or fall 2024.
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Funds for projects in and near fire threatened communities to improve public health and safety while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Wildfire Prevention Grants is CLOSED.  Please check back for future opportunities. 

CAL FIRE announces the availability of $117 Million in Local Wildfire Prevention Grants.
FY 2023-24 Wildfire Prevention Grants Workshop Webinar Presentation
Workshop Webinar - Click here to watch the recording of the November 8, 2023 workshop.

The Wildfire Prevention Grants Program is funded through California Climate Investments (CCI), which puts cap-and-trade dollars to work. 

Program Example
Yuba County Roadside Fuels Reduction is a great example of a project that reduces the potential for large and damaging wildfires. Fuels reduction also reduces the potential for hazardous greenhouse gasses released by wildfires.


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Vegetation clearance in critical locations to reduce wildfire intensity and rate of spread
Creation or maintenance of fuel breaks in strategic locations, as identified in CAL FIRE Unit Fire Plans, a Community Wildfire Protection Plan, or similar strategic planning document
Removal of ladder fuels to reduce the risk of crown fires
Creation of community-level wildfire prevention programs, such as community chipping days, roadside chipping, and green waste bin programs