Michael Esnard

We at the Fire Safe Council were very happy with the Town Hall meeting last week. The turnout was great and the room was...

We had a wonderful Goldspotted oak borer  kick-off lunch this past Friday. The Fire Safe Council, with fantastic (and delicious) help from the Pine...

We had really bad luck in scheduling our Fire Prevention Muster, which just happened to fall on the only day in months with cold...

 On Saturday, April 26, the public is invited to a festive and informative gathering in Idyllwild of people connected to fire prevention and firefighting....

“Facts are stubborn things,” as John Adams said, and a very stubborn thing over the last two decades has been how much we have...

Like a lot of people, I was fascinated by the almost complete shutdown of Atlanta from 2.3 inches of snow last week. It was...

The Fire Safe Council began the year with its attention on the new insect threat to the Hill’s oaks, the Goldspotted oak borer. Many...

Now that the nights are cold and we wonder if the next storm will bring rain or snow, the threat of wildfire is greatly...

Roof replacement going well … News about the Mountain Community’s Fire Safe Council’s reroofing program has appeared in this column before, but now that it...

Wildfire is getting some prominent and fresh attention in major newspapers. Both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times have published thoughtful...