{"id":69862,"date":"2018-11-09T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=69862"},"modified":"2018-11-09T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T18:25:15","slug":"cal-oes-director-secures-federal-assistance-to-assist-response-agencies-battling-woolsey-fire-in-ventura-and-los-angeles-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=69862","title":{"rendered":"Cal OES Director Secures Federal Assistance to Assist Response Agencies Battling Woolsey Fire in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;California Governor\u2019s Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci early Friday morning secured a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help ensure the availability of vital resources to suppress the Woolsey Fire burning in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. The FMAG also enables local, state and tribal agencies to recover eligible costs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69864\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-09-at-2.37.17-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-09-at-2.37.17-AM.png 800w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-09-at-2.37.17-AM-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-09-at-2.37.17-AM-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-09-at-2.37.17-AM-254x141.png 254w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-09-at-2.37.17-AM-570x317.png 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-09-at-2.37.17-AM-701x390.png 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fire has burned more than 7,500 acres and is threatening structures and critical infrastructure in and near the communities of Bell Canyon, Oak Park, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Hidden Hills, Agoura and other local areas. The Ventura County Fire Department tweeted early Friday morning that 30,000 residents are under mandatory evacuation orders, multiple structures have been destroyed and and road closures in place. Cal OES, in working with Ventura and Los Angeles area fire departments, has mobilized multiple immediate need for strike teams and firefighters including aircraft, fire engines, dozers and water tenders.<\/p>\n<p>Cal OES Fire and Southern Region personnel are currently working with other response agencies to address all emergency management, evacuation and mutual aid needs for the incident. Sustained high winds and dry weather have made ideal environment for dangerous fire conditions throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>The FEMA federal grant, which is provided through the President\u2019s Disaster Relief Fund on cost-share basis, will assist local, state and tribal agencies responding to the fire to apply for 75-percent reimbursement of their eligible fire suppression costs.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information is available at:<\/p>\n<p>Woolsey Fire Information \u2013 http:\/\/VCEmergency.com<br \/>\nVentura County Fire Department \u2013 VCFD_PIO (Twitter @VCFD and @VCFD_PIO)<br \/>\nLos Angeles County Fire Department \u2013 LACoFDPIO (Twitter @LACoFDPIO)<br \/>\nLos Angeles City Fire Department LAFD (Twitter @LAFD)<br \/>\nFire Management Assistance Grants \u2013 http:\/\/bit.ly\/10v6hjJ<br \/>\nCal OES Twitter @Cal_OES<br \/>\nGovernor\u2019s Office of Emergency Services \u2013 http:\/\/www.caloes.ca.gov\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;California Governor\u2019s Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci early Friday morning secured a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help ensure the availability of vital resources to suppress the Woolsey Fire burning in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. The FMAG also enables local, state and tribal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69864,"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-69862","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\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-09-at-2.37.17-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69862","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=69862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}