Dear Boulders Community,

As you may know, Truckee is part of the Wildfire Urban Interface, WUI, in an area where there is high fire danger. Kelly Turner began this project in 2018 and dedicated a tremendous amount of time to help us become a Firewise Certified Community. She no longer lives in the community but it is important that we continue the work to mitigate our fire danger and maintain our Firewise Certification. Many insurance companies offer a discount if your property is part of a Firewise community and the work being done to maintain the certification also is becoming part of many community requirements. We apply for renewal of our certification annually and one of the components of recertification is to educate our community about fire mitigation. Some of the things we are doing to maintain our certification are listed below.

●    We are working with our landscape service to ensure we introduce new landscaping that  incorporates native plants that are not extremely flammable. 

●    We are reducing/eliminating landscaping that includes flammable plants 5 feet from all buildings and clearing the zone of debris.

●    We are trimming tree branches so they don’t hang over roofs and are limbing trees so branches are 6 feet from the ground. 

●    We plan to install appropriate screening on our roof vents that prevent embers from entering buildings and igniting a fire.

Additionally, there are some things you all can do individually. 

●    Please make sure you don’t store any items under your decks. 

●    Sign up for Code Red so that you can be well informed about any type of emergency in our community.
>>   https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/3780/Emergency-Alerts  <<

●    Know your Zone, which is TRK-E326 and be familiar with the evacuation route to take if there is a fire. 
https://www.truckeepolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Evacuation-Routes-1.pdf

We plan to provide more information for you on our website and will let you know when it is posted. We are looking for a volunteer or two to work on Fire Wise tasks. It would be helpful if this could be someone who lives in the Boulders or spends a lot of time there. Julie Ebert has temporarily taken over for Kelly Turner and she can help you get started.  Please email Julie at [email protected] if you would like to help with this project.

Sincerely,
Julie Ebert