FIREWISE COMMUNITY

Last Updated: October 24, 2022

 

Cascade Mountain is a Firewise Community!

Since 2017, Cascade Mountain has been a designated ‘Firewise Community’.   Throughout the year, members are encouraged to complete a log of hours spent cleaning their property, the community areas or other Firewise related activities. These hours will count toward obtaining grant monies to offset Firewise expenses. Biannual community workdays include CMPOA volunteers in clean-up tasks across the mountain.  Several weeks prior to the scheduled day, residents and property owners are encouraged to clean their property of debris that could be potential fire fuel and stack it by the roadside.  On the ‘Firewise’ day, volunteers join Josh Barr and his crew and walk the mountain picking up the stacked debris while cleaning the community roadsides. 

Even with two designated days, it is imperative that the community be diligent year-round to clean up ‘fuel’ to reduce the risk of wildfires on our mountain. 

Additional Resources:

Firewise Public Education 

Firewise Guide to Landscaping

Firewise Guide to Construction

 
(printed copies will be available on the Firewise table in the Summit Haus)

 

                                     CMPOA Firewise Community Workday

                                                 Next Workday October 29, 2022

                                                8:30am to Noon

A half-day Firewise workday event is planned for the mountain on Saturday October 29th (rain date Nov 5) and several volunteers are needed to make this day a success!  Our goal is to reduce the risk/damage of wildfire by removing fuel in our community.  Property owners are encouraged to prepare piles of branches and limbs to be picked up.

You may sign up to be a volunteer by contacting the CMPOA Office at 276-728-0679 or leave a note in the drop box outside the Summit Haus front door – leave your name and contact phone number.   Volunteers should meet at the Freeland Summit Haus no later than 8:30AM where they will get instructions for the day.   Please bring your own work gloves, wear good shoes, and do not wear loose fitting clothes.  Volunteers will be gathering branches and limbs from piles left by property owners and feeding them into the chipper or stacking them in the back of a truck to be hauled to the debris pile.  Water will be provided during the work hours and a lunch after the work has been completed will be provided back at the Summit Haus.   This year we plan to have a visitor from the Virginia Firewise Program that will be observing our operations.  

Property owners are encouraged to clean up brush, prune and pick up limbs around their property (and/or helping a neighbor with their property) and stack them in a pile on the side of the street.  Please contact the CMPOA Office at 276-728-0679, email at office@cascade-mountain.com or leave a note in the drop box outside the Summit Haus front door – leave the location/address of where the pile needs to be picked up, your name, and your phone number.  The work crew will then pick up the piles that have been identified during the workday..

For more specific details please contact either:

Office: 276-728-0679 or office@cascade.mountain.com 

Domilie Greene.  276-213-3453 or eyemomma@gmail.com