The Colorado Strategic Wildfire Action Program is aimed at preventing “minor fires from becoming major fires,” Gov. Jared Polis said at the event about state mitigation efforts.
On a recent misty morning in Evergreen, a troop of Mile High Youth Corps members trudged up a grassy glen with eyes peeled, and saws sharpened, for saplings.
The corps members were working on a piece of private property in the heavily forested, and high fire risk, neighborhood to mark the rollout of the Colorado Strategic Wildfire Action Program, or COSWAP. The program comes from the nearly $30 million law, “The difference between the homeowner that has done mitigation and taken down fuel within 50 yards of a home, the home is still standing there,” Polis said. “And on both sides, where they didn’t do that, the home is destroyed. We see that in fire after fire.”
“There has been an expectation from the community that the fire department would be able to come out and help assess people’s property and actually show them what might need to be done to meet a certain standard of mitigation,” Dougherty said. “That’s not something we could address in the past.”
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