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.
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