As the flowers start blooming and days get warmer, it means fire danger increases. Living alongside the wilderness in a region where fire is part of the landscape, spring is an important time for residents to get prepared for wildfire.
Each spring, re-evaluating defensible space and home hardening techniques is part of life in the basin. While it’s important to focus on the vegetation around the home, it’s also key to reduce the risk from the infrastructure as both play important roles in protecting property.
Several fire scientists and agencies from both California and Nevada collaborated to produce a step-by-step 20-page guide for homeowners to retrofit their homes to be more suited, resilient and less vulnerable to ignition from wildfire. It’s called the Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide which was funded primarily by Cal Fire.
Residents in Incline Village, Nevada will soon be seeing a return of $56 million in overpaid property taxes, the result of their 17-year fight to contest how their property was valued. During its meeting this week, the Washoe County Board of County Commissioners decided that all entities that benefited from these overpayments of property taxes pay their respective share of those funds plus interest.
Those entities that will have to pay back money are Washoe County, the Incline Village General Improvement District, North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District, the State of Nevada, and the Washoe County School District will pay their respective share of overpaid taxes and interest.
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Weather and conditions permitting, the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team (TFFT) will continue prescribed fire operations this week in the Lake Tahoe Basin. California State Parks, California Tahoe Conservancy, North Lake Tahoe and Tahoe Douglas fire protection districts are scheduled to burn hand piles and smoke may be visible.
Project Name: Lyons Ranch - Northwest of the Golden Bear Subdivision. East of Lake Tahoe Airport.
Responsible Agency: California Tahoe Conservancy
Burn Type: Hand Piles
Planned Ignition: 12/14-17/2020
Duration of Ignition and Smoke Production: 2-3 days of ignition and 2 days of burn down time
Estimated Direction of Smoke Travel: North/Northeast/East