Solano County Grand Jury
• 2023-2024
Wildfires On The Horizon Solano Homes At Risk!
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Findings and Recommendations 3 findings
F1
– Solano County’s Fire Protection Districts are critically understaffed, under equipped, and underfunded to protect rural areas and adjacent cities from this season’s wildfires and future wildfires.
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R1
– Solano County and the Solano County Local Agency Formation Commission support immediate funding for the four FPDs.
F2
– While LAFCO is bringing expert advice to the table to determine the path forward to address the increasing danger from wildfires, the pace at which it is going is too slow to address immediate wildfire concerns.
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R2
– LAFCO and Solano County separate the more immediate concerns of wildfire exposure and address those with urgency.
F3
–Transitional financing is needed to equip the FPDs with new equipment and resilient firefighting techniques to adapt to the environmental changes now presented by the combined challenges of extreme heat, drought, and gale force winds along with random power outages.
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R3
– Solano County immediately make resources available to the FPDs to deal with the new wildfire environment. COMMENTS Solano County has not accepted responsibility for protecting outlying areas from the yearly fires. Without active intervention by the county, addressing fire issues has been glacially and tragically slow.
Comments 1
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CO1Solano County has not accepted responsibility for protecting outlying areas from the yearly fires. Without active intervention by the county, addressing fire issues has been glacially and tragically slow.