Take Action this Wildfire Preparedness Week

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May 2025

Building a Fire-Ready Future — Strengthening Our Defenses, Together - Get Involved This Wildfire Preparedness Week 

When the whole community works together to become wildfire-adapted, we can all be neighborhood heroes. This year, Wildfire Preparedness Week, May 4 - 10, focuses on what you and your community can do and what CAL FIRE and our partners are doing to become more wildfire resilient. Whether it is working on your defensible space, creating a go bag, or working with your local community to create a Community Wildfire Protection Plan, this month's CAL FIRE Community Newsletter has the tools you need to get started.

Wildfire Preparedness Week Tools

Get Started on your Preparedness with this One-Hour Checklist

By improving defensible space, strengthening your home, making a plan for pets, and doing a final safety check, you can take the first crucial steps to protect your home from wildfire!

1-Hour Wildfire Ready Checklist

Start from your Home and Work Your Way Out

Many homes lost to wildfire are ignited by flying embers. Embers can travel miles ahead of the active front of wildfires. Keeping the area closest to buildings, structures, and decks clear will prevent embers from igniting materials that can spread the fire to your home. Work on the first 5 feet from your home to meet Zone 0 recommendations.

Zone 0 Checklist

Preparing your Household

CAL FIRE offers the firePLANNER interactive tool to keep you informed about wildfire incidents, receive emergency text alerts instantly, and create a personalized checklist to prepare you in case you need to evacuate your home. The tool also allows you to review your evacuation list and techniques to harden your home and protect it from a wildfire.

Get Started on your Checklist

What's a Go-Bag?

Having a go-bag ready is a great way to have what you need on hand to get out the door quickly. CAL FIRE Battalion Chief David Acuna explains what you should put inside your go-bag in case you have to evacuate.

Click Here to View the Go-Bag Checklist

Participate in Wildfire Preparedness in you Community

Fire Safe Councils are designed to empower residents, local fire departments, and stakeholders to work together to enhance their local area’s wildfire resilience. Joining your local Council is a great way to get involved and make a difference in your community. Sign up to join your Council or follow the provided steps to organize a new one.

Fire Safe Council Handbook

Create a California Community Wildfire Protection Plan

Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) are collaboratively developed by local, state, federal, and tribal partners. Take a look at what goes into preparing the toolkit.

California CWPP Toolkit

How CAL FIRE firefighters Utilize Preparedness Training to Stay Sharp

Take a look at some preparedness training that our firefighters participated in, as well as two structure fires and two cut and rescue traffic collisions.

CAL FIRE has deployed its second C-130H Airtanker

The new addition will be stationed at the Fresno Air Attack Base, a key location that enables rapid deployment.

New Signs of Wildlife Return to Eaton Fire Zone

From the smallest animals like the California newt to the apex predator mountain lion, life is returning to the fire-ravaged hillsides.

Join Us, Become a Defensible Space Inspector

CAL FIRE is recruiting to fill 150 Forestry Aide (Defensible Space Inspector) positions across the state. Primary duties of these positions include performance of defensible space inspections and interacting with the public to provide fire prevention information. All appointments are temporary and will not become permanent. Applications will be processed in rounds with July 31 and Oct. 10 cut-off dates, so don’t wait to apply!

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