Wildfire Stories – What can we learn?

“Wildfire Partners Cold Springs Fire Success Stories”, (6 min).

“Understand Durango Fire – Make Your Home FireWise”, Charlie Landsman
from Fire Adapted Colorado (FACO) doing an HIZ evaluation. (8 minutes)

Creating Fire Adapted Communities: A Waldo Canyon Fire Case Study, (12 minutes)

The Black Forest Fire – Pikes Peak Wildfire Prevention Partners, how crown fires and ground fires and embers work. Beautiful but overgrown Ponderosa pines. The key thing was what the homeowners had done before the fire. Mitigation increases survival odds. Community-wide mitigation at landscape level is even better. (13 min).

Other Pamphlets, Websites and Books

Information about “ignition resistant” plants from Irene Shonle at the Colorado State Extension. (1 hour video)

To Starve an Ember – Local author Lisa Hatfield’s novel (full of teachable moments) about wildfires and family disasters.