CLEARLAKE, Calif. — An upcoming meeting will be held to discuss the formation of a Fire Safe Council as well as a Firewise Community project for Clearlake.

The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.

The meeting will be available for both in person and online via Zoom.

To join the meeting remotely, follow this link.

The passcode is 842057.

Fire season too often brings back past trauma, anxiety and heightened concerns about our community’s resilience to wildfires.

A Fire Safe Council and Fire Wise Communities can help organize projects within a specific designated area of a community to reduce hazardous vegetation and create more resilient communities to wildfires.

Those in attendance at the town hall meeting will learn how they can become a part of the Fire Safe Council and create their own Fire Wise Communities.

By working together, communities can strengthen their defensive space and become more resilient.

Attendees will also learn about a new program that the Lake County Fire Protection District has created to survey and review your property’s fire safety.

This service can lead you to what more you can do to make your home more resilient to fires and provide you with documentation that may be useful in your conversations with insurance companies.

Finally, Clear Lake Environmental Research Center, or CLERC, will provide a presentation on the services they have provided to other Fire Safe Councils and Fire Wise Communities with the funding that they’ve received through grants.

Working with organizations like CLERC and Fire Wise Communities can be the best way to get community projects accomplished so that entire neighborhoods can be protected by the fire mitigation work that is completed.

“We know that fires will occur in the future, but how we prepare is the most important work we can do to lessen the burden, costs and potential catastrophe that fires bring to our communities,” said Lake County Supervisor Bruno Sabatier. “Defensible space, organized communities, and access to funding are part of the solution to bringing fire resilience to the Clearlake and Lower Lake landscape.”

Join them March 13 to learn more about how you and your communities can organize towards a more fire resilient community.

For more information contact Bruno Sabatier at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Russ Cremer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..