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Elected Officials & Government

Local government and staff, elected officials, planning departments

Elected officials and governments play a crucial role in wildfire preparedness through establishing building codes, planning for appropriate land use, supporting locally-led Community Wildfire Protection Plans and much more. These resources cover the wide array of ways elected officials and governments can engage on wildland fire. Please note, some resources might be applicable to multiple roles within the community.

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Multilingual Alerting for the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts

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Federal Communications Commission
Information, resources, and reports to support the accessibility of alert information. Read More
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Multilingual Alerting

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Federal Communications Commission
The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau hosted this public workshop to promote the use of multilingual emergency alerting. The workshop included presentations related to the multilingual capabilities of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), alternative methods for delivering emergency information to the non-English speaking public, and real-world examples demonstrating the... Read More
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Minimum Standards for Developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Colorado

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Colorado State Forest Services
The following are updated minimum standards and guidelines for developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) in Colorado. Read More
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Long Term Recovery Guide

Guide / Pamphlet / Handout
National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster
This 96-page guide from the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster coalition covers disasters and long term recovery, organizing a long term recovery group, disaster case management, volunteer management, communications and more. Read More
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Land Use Planning Tools to Reduce Wildfire Risk

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Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire
This interactive site provides examples of land use planning strategies and techniques that can address wildfire risk in a community. Read More
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Land Use Planning Approaches in the Wildland-Urban Interface

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Community Wildfire Planning Center
This report explores four western states—California, Colorado, Montana and Washington—to better understand each state’s approach to wildfire policy and regulation, and to identify potentialopportunities for reducing wildfire risk to communities in the future. Read More
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IPAWS Program Planning Toolkit

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Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Alerts, Warnings, and Notifications (AWN) Program Planning Toolkit is designed to aid alerting authorities and alert originators at federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels in the development of mature alerting programs using customized resources, best practices, and program templates. Read More
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Integrating Community Wildfire Protection Plans and Natural Hazards Mitigation Plans

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Federal Emergency Management Agency
“Both Natural Hazards Mitigation Plans (NHMP) and Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) benefitcommunities striving to reduce risk to natural hazards. Though CWPPs are focused on the wildfire hazard and NHMPs address multiple natural hazards, their process and content requirements are very similar. As a result, many communities have chosen to integrate. This document highlights the... Read More
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Information for Disaster Evacuation Centers

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Centers for Disease Control
Information on how to set up evacuation centers, a shelter assessment tool, guidelines for accessibility and how to deal with common health concerns at evacuation centers. Focused on public health professionals but applicable to other fields as well. Includes resources for pets in evacuation shelters for animal health and control of disease at animal shelters... Read More
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Hispanic Access Foundation Wildfire Management Toolkit

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Hispanic Access Foundation
“In the face of rising temperatures, a more arid climate, and a growing wildland urban interface, acting now is particularly critical for Latino communities living in these fire prone regions with inequitable access to resources and services.” This toolkit provides resources and tools focused on regulations and policies and public and mental health with a... Read More
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