The Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program (RWMP) is a holistic approach to wildfire mitigation through landscape, built environment, and community resilience. The RWMP is creating a framework to increase wildfire resilience for the wildland urban interface communities located in the south coast region of Santa Barbara County with the plan to expand the program.
There are basic steps people can take to make their homes safer from wildfires - working together with neighbors has a multiplying effect for individual homes and at the community scale. Firewise USA is a free and voluntary program to help communities in this effort. Burn Cycle Project partnered with the Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council to produce a video introducing the real world benefits of Firewise USA.
Burn Cycle Project partnered with Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council to produce this video introducing the updated zones of defensible space within a home and surrounding property. Fire Marshal Rob Hazard addresses some often overlooked vulnerabilities at two kinds of homes and describes basic measures for making them much safer from a wildfire.
Burn Cycle founder Ethan Turpin is teamed with a group of researchers from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management to observe and communicate complex relationships between humans, landscapes, and fire. The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, Maryland supported the team’s collaborative process by providing a space for interdisciplinary discussion with land managers and scientists in a range of fields.
Film by Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath with cinematography and production support by Ethan Turpin.