To: Board of County Commissioners
Through: Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff
Prepared By:
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Nathan Fogg, Director, Office of Emergency Management
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Presenter: Nathan Fogg, Director, Office of Emergency Management
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2:00 PM *Discussion of fire season in Arapahoe County, the Fire Danger Rating System, and efforts to improve mitigation and response
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The Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and the Sheriff's Office will share information on the anticipated fire season and its impact on the County along with an overview of the Fire Danger Rating System. We'll conclude with conversation about efforts intra and inter-county to improve our mitigation and response efforts to improve outcomes.
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Alignment with Strategic Plan: Safe and Healthy Communities - Advance public safety by strengthening partnerships across law enforcement, emergency response, and community stakeholders.
Background and Discussion: Drought, record low snowfall, high winds, and a warmer than usual winter have all combined to the set the stage for a rare fire season. Comparisons to the antecedent 2012 fire season are being drawn in some agencies.
Arapahoe County OEM, along with Boulder and Douglas counties, are leading a group of practitioners in emergency management, 911, law enforcement, fire service, water providers, and electric utility providers in an unprecedented effort to reduce the impact of fire on the front range, from the Wyoming border to Pueblo. This effort, focused on community conflagration (think the Marshall Fire, LA, Lahaina and others) risk reduction has immediately applicable tools and standards to impact the fire problem in Arapahoe County.
Add to that the early predictions for a "super El Nino," and the importance of aggressive fire response partnered with mitigation and preparedness activities taking place across the front range becomes self-evident. If the El Nino weather pattern ...
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