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Wildfire Information Network Community of Practice

Last Updated: October 20, 2009 Related resource areas: Wildfire

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Community goal

Our goal is to teach the homeowner how to live more safely in wildfire prone areas, and provide current information to extension educators for use in their outreach programs. Specific goals include assembling, summarizing, developing and delivering educational materials related to:

  • Pre-fire actions that reduce the wildfire threat to homes and other property.
  • Homeowner actions when the wildfire threat is eminent, including information on evacuation and staying to defend your home.
  • Post-fire actions pertinent to homeowners and their property.
  • Social science aspects of implementing plans to reduce the wildfire threat to your home.


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Who we are

This information has been developed by cooperative extension educators and reviewed by cooperative extension educators, land-grant university faculty, government researchers and other technical and fire-fighting professionals in relevant discipline areas, including vegetation management, the fire resistance of building materials, extension education, and social sciences.


Leadership

Here is a list of our Wildfire Information Leaders


eWIN Community of Practice Photo

Photo source: Ben Hammack. It features a fire-fighting helicopter over a house, with a Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF) pickup truck in front of house.
Photo source: Ben Hammack. It features a fire-fighting helicopter over a house, with a Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF) pickup truck in front of house.


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