fire safe community
Al Tahoe Firewise Community volunteers to perform property assessments
Submitted by paula on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 10:11am
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - With the support of South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue (SLTFR), the Al Tahoe neighborhood has begun the process of becoming a certified Firewise USA ® recognized neighborhood.
As part of the application process, SLTFR and Al Tahoe community volunteers will be walking in the Al Tahoe neighborhood October 27-30 and performing random wildfire risk assessment/evaluations on 20 percent of the 1520 properties from the street.
The volunteers will have bright yellow vests on so they can be easily identified
Zephyr Fire and South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue crews help with defensible in Al Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 8:08am
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The Al Tahoe neighborhood of South Lake Tahoe has been working on becoming a Fire Wise community, and this weekend's defensible space project took them closer to obtaining this recognition.
Fire officials: Some town will be affected by wildfire this summer, who's next?
Submitted by paula on Tue, 04/30/2019 - 4:29pm
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Over 200 members of the community gathered last week for a Community Wildfire Preparedness and Evacuation Planning meeting that featured ten panelists for an important discussion on what is on the minds of many.
The goal is to be a community that is wildfire ready, and the speakers went through the ways both they and the citizens of the South Shore can be prepared for wildfire, establish evacuation routes and what the emergency response will be.
Zephyr Fire Crew gets a permanent home
Submitted by paula on Sat, 08/01/2015 - 6:46pm
The Zephyr Fire Crew no longer has to call the old landfill on Upper Kingsbury Grade's Logging Road Lane as their home. The Tahoe Douglas Fire Department's wildland fire/fuels reduction team was officially welcomed into new digs with an open house this week. The Tahoe Chamber was on hand for the ribbon cutting ceremony, but it wasn't any normal ribbon. Zephyr Fire crew members cut through a wooden ribbon with a chainsaw.
Lake Tahoe residents can extend defensible space onto adjacent National Forest lands
Submitted by paula on Fri, 04/17/2015 - 9:25pm
Living in the midst of the fourth consecutive year of drought in the Sierra Nevada brings with it a responsibility to become fire adapted. While the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team (TFFT) consistently thins forests, conducts prescribed burns and defensible space programs to reduce wildfire risk, they need the public's help to create Fire Adapted Communities at Lake Tahoe
