FAC Net blogs include success stories, lessons learned, resources, tips and even failures related to community wildfire resilience. Please contact us if you have a story to share.
Mar 19, 2020
Adjusting to Our Changing Realities
Michelle Medley-DanielWe are all experiencing the impacts of COVID-19. In some communities, folks are dealing with mandatory shelter-in-place rules, many schools have closed and our lives are… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach
Type: Impact Story
Editor's Note: All blog entries are reviewed and edited for length and clarity by Network staff before approval for posting.
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After the FAC Ambassador Workshop in Spring 2019, Firewise Resident Leaders began gathering quarterly, providing an opportunity to learn from regional experts, and to get updates from Ashland Fire & Rescue. Photo courtesy of Ashland Fire & Rescue
May 21, 2020
In 2012, the 10,000+ acre Weber Fire blew through a wilderness study area and into the canyon of a neighborhood where I’d been supporting wildfire preparedness through… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Defensible space / Firewise Meetings / Events Preparedness Wildfire risk assessment
Type: Impact Story
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May 07, 2020
Planning for Wildfire: Tips for creating 360-character Wireless Emergency Alert templates
By: Jessica Doermann, Erica KuligowskiAs the number of wildfires continues to decrease or hold steady from year to year, their average size and intensity has grown exponentially. Populations living and working… Read More
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Apr 30, 2020
Last week I criticized some spatial data that equated average miles traveled with social distancing success. According to the national map, my county was doing great, and I… Read More
Topic: Climate change Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Resilience
Type: Essay
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Apr 16, 2020
How Some Communities are Adapting their FAC Work to a Virtual World: Wildfire Prep Day and Community Outreach
By: Emily TroisiThe first Saturday in May is usually marked by neighborhood and community events that bring people together to work on their wildfire mitigation efforts. Past projects and… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Communications / Outreach Evacuation outreach/planning Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Preparedness
Type: Tools / Resources
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Jennifer burning at WTREX 2019. Photo credit David Godwin
Mar 12, 2020
Building Bridges Between Universities, Communities, and Fire: An Interview with Jennifer Fawcett
By: Jennifer Fawcett, Jessica Sabine BrothersEditor’s note: We had the pleasure of connecting with Jennifer Fawcett, Extension Associate for North Carolina State University, to talk more about her role leading fire… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Preparedness
Type: Interview
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Jeremy Bailey playing games with family and friends this past Christmas. Photo provided by Jeremy Bailey.
Mar 05, 2020
Learning the Rules of the Game: Understanding Jeremy Bailey and the origins of TREX
By: Lenya Quinn-DavidsonI don’t like games. Everyone knows this about me: there’s only one thing that will get me to go bed early, and that’s a board game. I’ve been this way forever, and… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Planning Resilience
Type: Impact Story
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Forest Service Chief Tony Tooke visits Eagle Creek ICP and recognized FS personnel who helped with hiker evacuations the night of September 2, 2017
Feb 27, 2020
The Panic Myth: What Does the Research Say and What Can Practitioners Do?
By: Sarah McCaffrey, Annie SchmidtThe Panic Myth, Part I – What Does the Research Say? by Sarah McCaffrey As I’ve been watching the fires in Australia over the past several months I’ve been impressed… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Communications / Outreach Evacuation outreach/planning Preparedness
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Business Resilience: Fire Adaption on Main Street USA
Feb 20, 2020
Editor’s Note: Community efforts to increase wildfire resilience often focus on homeowner action. But what about our business community? The economic engines of our towns… Read More
Topic: Business resilience
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Feb 13, 2020
Understanding Complexity and Risk in the Wildland Fire Environment: An Interview with Travis Dotson
By: Annie Schmidt, Travis DotsonEditor’s Note: FAC Net’s Annie Schmidt had the privilege of getting to know Travis Dotson of the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center when she worked on the Spring Coulee… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Communications / Outreach Equity/Inclusion Wildfire
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block print of Pacific lamprey, by Lenya Quinn-Davidson
Feb 06, 2020
On a typical summer weekend in the late 1990s, you might have found me amid other teenagers, all lounging in the sun a few miles up the road from my house at one of our… Read More
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Monitoring / Assessment
Type: Essay