Category: Fire Safety
Got Clearance?
By The Deer Springs Fire Safe Council You’ve gone out and cleared brush from around your property to create defensible space and now you have a pile of dead vegetation […]
Don’t Suffer from Fire Amnesia – Notes from the Wildland Urban Interface
By the Deer Springs Fire Safe Council After enduring the kind of wet winter we just did, it’s easy to get amnesia. Fire amnesia All those rivers of mud, all […]
Wilderness Park Getting Extra Attention
By the Deer Springs Fire Safe Council Note: The firefighter inmate crews are due to return to the park on March 20, so the time line reflects that for publication […]
New Fire Engine for Deer Springs
By MICHAEL BURGE The Deer Springs Fire Protection District has received a new fire engine that will be assigned to Station No. 12 at the Interstate 15/Deer Springs Road interchange. […]
Moosa Canyon Fuel Break to Protect Hidden Meadows
By the Deer Springs Fire Safe Council CAL FIRE is about to undertake a major fire prevention project by constructing a 100-foot-wide fuel break on the west rim of Moosa […]
Fire Safe Council invites residents to annual meeting
The Deer Springs Fire Safe Council is inviting community residents to its annual membership meeting on Saturday, February 4, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Meadows Homes Association Pavilion, […]
CAL FIRE thins brush, widens trails on Merriam Mountains
By THE DEER SPRINGS FIRE SAFE COUNCIL CAL FIRE crews have added an extra layer of protection by slashing through brush to improve five miles of truck trails and reduce […]
Hidden Meadows Park gets needed attention: CAL FIRE hand crews thin brush to guard against fire
Hidden Meadows is several degrees safer after CAL FIRE crews thinned overgrown and dead vegetation from the Community Foundation Park to reduce the fire threat. Richard Esparza, who lives on […]