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there ways we could incentivize good
land-use planning?"
Aside from the promise of additional tax dollars, impediments remain
that can prevent communities from
enacting smarter land-use principles,
experts say. Hostility to regulation, cost
concerns, and a poor understanding
of how and why homes burn in wildfires are all significant barriers. "The
bottom line is we need to change our
behaviors, and that starts with education," says Marshall, the former Bend,
Oregon, fire marshal. "We have to get
the right people in the right positions
to understand the facts so we can start
to move on this issue. Lawmakers are
homeowners, too."
Bend is one example of a success
story. The city has incrementally
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enacted a series of wildfire mitigation measures over the last 40 years,
transforming itself from a community that once required wood-shake
shingles for aesthetics to one that
bans them for safety. It also has put
in place an ordinance restricting the
types of vegetation that can be planted
around structures, and fines residents
who don't comply. Marshall said city
wildfire safety advocates moved the
needle largely through public outreach,
through the hard lessons of past fires,
and by working directly with residents
and lawmakers to get them to understand the consequences of inaction.
The city has also worked with NFPA's
Firewise® program for educational
resources about building fire-adapted
communities.
"I think those of us in the fire service need to be very honest with our
residents," Marshall said. "We had a
campaign in Bend where we said very
clearly to residents that we cannot
protect all these homes during these
large-scale [fire] events. We told them
that we are going to triage homes based
on how well you maintain your properties. If you make it safe for us, we will
do everything we can to protect that
structure. If we show up and there is a
canopy of trees around the house and
pine needles on roof, we are going to
drive right on by."
Shortly after the campaign, Marshall
said he walked by a man pruning vegetation around his home. "I was off duty,
wearing civilian clothes, and I asked
him, 'Why are you doing this?' He told
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURIT Y SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE
A lone firefighter tries to protect a home from wildfire during
the 2012 Shockey Fire in San Diego. Some experts believe
that the longtime U.S. policy of trying to suppress all wildfire
is a failed strategy, urging instead a greater effort to harden
structures to resist ignition.
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