Fire Safe Marin 2nd Friday Monthly Meeting • June 14 • 11 am – 12:30 pm

This month’s meeting will be more interactive than usual. We want to hear from you about what you are specifically doing in your community to comply with the mission of Firewise USA. Please come prepared to discuss specific activities you are undertaking.

If you have not already watched Fire Safe Marin’s video featuring Mark Brown discussing successful evacuation from hillside homes on narrow roads, please do so before the meeting. This is the best practice for hillside evacuation. The video is here: Wildfire Evacuation: Make It Downhill Alive (youtube.com). We will be discussing the video so do your homework!

1. Open Your Wildfire Risk Report Campaign- Meg

1. Home evaluations starting now and will extend through the fall
   1. The MWPA needs all residents to open their reports and use them as a guide to lower their wildfire risks. 
2. Multimedia ad campaign to support. Included back of buses, ferry terminals, bus stops, print, digital to coincide with direct communications  to residents through door hangers, emails 
3. Please report back if you see the signs or ads so we can track

2. PGE Grant Update- Rich

3. Insurance Update- JP

1. State Farm cancellations are mostly in East Bay
2. Carriers using zip codes to determine non-renewals
3. CA Fair Plan coverage increasing as well
   1. Orinda homeowner was paying $4k/year
   2. Fair Plan premium is $10k which only covers fire up to $3mm
   3. The rest of typical homeowner coverage is additional $3k
4. Real estate market beginning to see the effects of lack of insurability
5. Ca Dept of Insurance has laid out the Sustainable Insurance Strategy
   1. Basically allows for rate hikes to entice carriers back into market
   2. Won’t go into effect until year-end
6. If canceled, call Dept of Insurance at 800.927.357
7. Website is www.insurance.ca.gov

4.  Educational Activities- JP, Roundtable

1. What educational activities does your group have planned?
2. One of Universal Firewise Actions
3. Also Firewise USA requirements
4. Multiple rounds of outreach required to draw crowd
5. Use Evites as first round of outreach

5. How many watched the Mark Brown Evac video? We will have a facilitated discussion of lessons learned, please be prepared to share your thoughts- JP

1. Best practice/ Counters misinformation
2. Unique features of hillside evacuation
3. Run your evac route in advance to recon dangerous spots like inward curves
4. Sharing with your communities

6. CA State Senator Mike McGuire hosting a town hall discussion on Wildfire Preparedness & Preventio

1. When: May 8 at 6:30PM
2. Register at:May 8th Wildfire Preparedness and Prevention Town Hall | Senator Mike McGuire (ca.gov)
3. Watch live here:https://sd02.senate.ca.gov/videos

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