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<\/p>\nSacramento, CA…As part of Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s key investments to bolster the state\u2019s wildfire response and resilience efforts, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention (CAL FIRE) has announced it will direct nearly $138 million in funding for 105 local fire prevention projects that will help protect communities across California.<\/p>\n
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\u201cCalifornia and the western U.S. are facing an unparalleled risk of catastrophic wildfire in this new climate reality. These grants will further our work to tackle California\u2019s forest health and wildfire crisis, funding\u00a0community-based projects that build resilience to protect lives and property,\u201d said Governor Newsom.<\/p>\n
CAL FIRE\u2019s Fire Prevention Grants enable local organizations such as fire safe councils to implement activities that address the risk of wildfire and reduce wildfire potential for communities. Funded activities include fuel reduction, wildfire planning and fire prevention education. The projects meet the goals and objectives of\u00a0the Governor\u2019s\u00a0Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan, as well as the State\u2019s Strategic Fire Plan.<\/p>\n
A full list of the 2021 Fire Prevention Grant recipients can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Early action<\/a>\u00a0funding signed by the Governor in April allocated $123 million for the Fire Prevention Grant Program, which CAL FIRE has worked to implement on the ground as soon as possible.\u00a0An additional $14.8 million is being reallocated for grants from the Department\u2019s 20-21 budget.\u00a0Overall, Governor Newsom advanced a $1.5 billion package to build wildfire resiliency in California. The package supports\u00a0a statewide strategy focused on forest health and wildfire resilience, including investments to advance land and forest management efforts and community hardening, and builds on the Governor\u2019s previous budget investments in emergency management and executive actions to help combat catastrophic wildfires.<\/p>\n Governor Newsom surged CAL FIRE\u2019s firefighting ranks in March by authorizing the early hire of\u00a01,399 additional firefighters<\/a>\u00a0and in July supplemented the department\u2019s capacities with\u00a012 additional aircraft<\/a>. The Governor earlier this year launched an expanded and refocused\u00a0Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, with federal, local and tribal leaders, to deliver on key commitments in his\u00a0Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan<\/a>.\u00a0Last year<\/a>, the Newsom Administration and the USFS announced a shared stewardship agreement under which they are working to treat one million acres of forest and wildland annually to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sacramento, CA…As part of Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s key investments to bolster the state\u2019s wildfire response and resilience efforts, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention (CAL FIRE) has announced it will direct nearly $138 million in funding for 105 local fire prevention projects that will help protect communities across California. \u201cCalifornia and the western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CaGov-seal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128874,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128873\/revisions\/128874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}