The funny thing is that I'm fairly certain the author of these books was in the Wildfire subreddit last year asking some extremely specific questions (with full admission of what she was working on) and the community was really kind/helpful with her requests! www.amazon.com/Sky-Ridge-Ho...

Thank you so much for sharing, Murphy!

I HAD to know more, their membership criteria page is insufferable lol foundersleague.cc/criteria/

Community-level resilience has been a heavily requested topic by listeners over the years, but I could never give it the space I think it needed—I'm immensely grateful to Fire Aside for supporting my efforts to explore this topic from multiple angles and perspectives!

In our final episode of the series we spoke with Butte County Fire Safe Council ED Taylor Nilsson, who talked about the realities of recovering from and preparing for megafires, often simultaneously. Butte County has had over 90% of its WUI burned in 1999! lifewithfirepodcast.com/episodes/com...

Ep. 2 was with Fire Aside CEO Jason Brooks, who spoke to the importance of scaling up home risk assessments and how Fire Aside fills this critical gap, particularly as more data is needed to inform state-wide policy (which connects to our previous ep.) lifewithfirepodcast.com/episodes/com...

The first episode was with former CAL FIRE chief deputy director Chris Anthony, who spoke to big picture policy considerations in the community resilience space (particularly in CA, where Chris now consults with a number of fire-adjacent orgs and companies): lifewithfirepodcast.com/episodes/com...

A red card is required to respond to wildfire incidents, whether as a firefighter, information officer, logistics chief or other roles that support firefighting operations. So anyone who goes out on wildfires either as part of their normal job or on top of their normal job would have a red card.

I don't have anything longer form yet. I just heard these numbers this morning, though many fire folks have been ringing the alarm on this since cuts started in February. We're about to enter the "find out" phase of f*ucking around and finding out.

We will, without a single doubt, be short of firefighters and fire support folks this year. This will, without a single doubt, impact firefighter safety.

I will keep this in mind! I spoke with Susan Jane Brown (www.silvixresources.org/about) on this topic last week and am hoping to release that episode soonish. But I'm also working on a substack post about this topic and may need additional interviews/context to make that happen as well. Thank you!

Thanks for your ongoing coverage of this, Murphy!

thank you for reading, as always <3