Preparing for wildfires a community effort

With wildland fires burning across the West, East Fork Fire Protection District personnel are updating their preparedness, and encouraging residents to better prepare.Twenty years ago, now Battalion Chief, then volunteer, Scott Fraser has seen a large improvement in how fires are fought on the Sierra Front. “From modern brush trucks with 500 gallon per minute pumps and larger water tanks, to using Geospatial Information Systems in real time to show fire progression and allow responders to