Most property owners in Dammeron Valley are concerned about the possibility of damage to our homes and property due to the risk of wildland fires. Most of us take an active roll in securing our properties as much as we can by clearing out burnable vegetation from our properties and around structures.

Your hard work, either as a community volunteer or performing preventive maintenance on your own property, can be turned into credits for matching funds for our community through Firewise Communities/USA. Firewise Communities is part of the National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Program, which is direccted and sponsored by the Wildland/Urban Interface Working Team (WUIWT) of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, a consortium of wildland fire organizations and federal agencies responsible for wildland fire management in the United States. See web site: http://www.firewise.org/index.php

In order to build up credits, a record of your activity needs to be reported by filling in the Firewise Activities Matching Funds Recording Sheet and turning in to the DVLA Secretary.