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- Title
- Supplemental Environmental Assessment Conejo Fire Mitigation. Conejo Recreation and Park District.
- File
- PB2009107121.pdf
- Source
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Oakland, CA., March 2006, 37 p.
- Abstract
- The Conejo Recreation and Park District (CRPD) has applied for funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), through the State of California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), to conduct vegetation management on public property managed by the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency (COSCA) in the City of Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, California FEMA is proposing to fund the project through the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) under a presidential disaster declaration (FEMA-1498-DR-CA) for the southern California wildfires of October 2003. The Simi Fire, which was one of several wildfires declared as FEMA-1498-DR-CA, started around October 25, 2003, in the area of Simi Valley and Moorpark. Pushed by Santa Ana Winds, the Simi Fire initially advanced at a rate of 20 miles per day as California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) and Ventura County fire crews labored to block its path. As the fire advanced, authorities feared that blowing embers would spread the fire to Thousand Oaks, but weather conditions improved and firefighters managed to contain the Simi Fire on November 1, 2003, after burning 108,204 acres, destroying 37 homes, and causing 21 injuries. FEMA has prepared the Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment for Typical Recurring Actions Resulting From Flood, Earthquake, Fire, Rain, and Wind Disasters in California (PEA), which assesses common impacts of the action alternatives that are under consideration at the proposed project site (FEMA 2003).
- Keywords
- Forest fighting; Fire safety; Conejo Recreation and Park District (CRPD); Fire management plans; Fire mitigation; Natural resources management; Fires; National parks; Vegetation management; Environmental assessments; Fire protection