Enclosure 3A - Project Summary Form
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE PROJECTS
Application for Wildland Urban Interface Fuels / Education and
Prevention / Community Planning for Fire Protection Projects
Applicant
Applicant/Organization:
Estacada Rural Fire District, Mt. Hood and Clackamas County Fire Prevention Coops
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
503 630-7712
503 630-7757
alhull1130@aol.com
Address (Street or P. O. Box, City, State, Zip):
P.O. Box 608, Estacada, OR. 97023-0608
Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator (Name and Title):
Alan L. Hull, Captain
Organization/Jurisdiction:
Estacada Rural Fire District #69
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
503 630-7712
503 630-7757
alhull1130@aol.com
Project Information
Project Title:
Landscaping for a Fire Safe Home
Project Start:
Project End:
June 1, 2002
August 25, 2002
Federal Funding Request:
Total Project Funding:
$58,000.00
$85,915.00
Are you submitting multiple projects? If so, please explain and prioritize:
No
Brief Project Description:
Comprehensive program to educate land owners about fire safe landscaping. We intend to do this
by printing a full color 12 page informational brochure called "Living with Fire", produced by the
PNWCG, then distributed through local newspapers, and Bulk Mailings and a door to door
campaign in the most crucial areas as determined by the local fire protection agency. Agencies
involved include local rural fire districts, as well as Oregon Dept of Forestry and the Mt. Hood
National Forest. We will be concentrating our efforts on the wildland urban interface areas of each
district participating.
Project Location:
County:
Congressional District:
Estacada
Clackamas
Oregon 3 and 5
Project Type: Check appropriate project type. More than one type may be checked. If only Box (4) is checked, use Enclosure 4.
(1)
(2)
Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Project
Wildland Urban Interface Education and Prevention Project
(3)
(4)
Community Planning for Fire Protection Project
Fuels Utilization and Marketing Project
If the applicant is an unincorporated area, define the geographic area being represented:
All rural areas of Clackamas County
Enclosure 3B (Page 1 of 3) - Project Narrative Description
Applications for funding must include a narrative response that describes the proposal. Please do not submit responses longer than one page,
single space, 12-pitch font.
Describe project including, but not limited to:
 project location
Address these
 project implementation
items as
 anticipated outcomes
applicable:
 measures and reporting
 partners
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project income
project time frames
specify types of activities and equipment used
amount or extent of actions (acres, number of homes, etc)
environmental, cultural and historical resource requirements
This project includes most rural communities in Clackamas County. Over a dozen different fire
districts as well as Oregon Dept. of Forestry and the Mt. Hood National Forest are represented by the two coops involved. Recordkeeping will be maintained by the Estacada Rural Fire District #69.
Response:
Implementation - This project will be implemented upon grant award, then continue throughout the 2002 fire
season. It will use members of two fire prevention co-ops to achieve a common goal, to reduce the
occurrence and severity of wildland urban interface fires. We will accompolish this prevention effort by
utilizing an excellent 12 page color brochure developed to aid in home outdoor landscaping self inspections
as our main tool. Publication will be distributed in local newspapers, bulk mailings, and through a door-todoor delivery in crucial, high risk areas of Clackamas County by multi-agency personnel, and will educate the
public on responsible interface stewardship.
Outcomes - Learn and understand risks involved living in a fire prone environment and to take personal and
community responsibility for reducing hazards before wild fire strikes. Lowering fuel loads and ladder fuels
around structures. Proper addressing and adequate access for fire apparatus.
Measures and Reporting will include the distribution of the brochure, actual resident contacts, then follow up
to see if the resident corrected major concerns or discrepancies.
Partners - Oregon Department of Forestry, Mt. Hood National Forest, Mt. Hood Fire Prevention Association
(Hoodland Fire, Sandy/Boring Fire Prevention, Corbett Fire, Estacada Fire, Gresham Fire, ODF, and Mt
Hood NF), Clackamas County Fire Prevention Co-op (Canby Fire, Colton Fire, Molalla Fire, Clackamas
County #1, Estacada Fire, Lake Oswego Fire, TVFR-Oregon City, Gladstone Fire, Sandy/Boring Prevention,
ODF, Mt. Hood NF, NW Association of Fire Trainers).
We do not forsee any income generated from this project.
Time Frame- June 1, 2002 through August 26, 2002.
Activities will include bulk mailings, hand distribution door to door in high risk areas as determined by local
fire district, and static displays at the Clackamas County Fair and other local fairs.
There are approximatly 37,802 rural occupancies in Clackamas County, and while we know we will not be
able to contact them all on a one to one basis, we would like to get our fire prevention message across in one
form or another to as many of these residences as possible.
There should be no negative environmental, cultural, or historical impact as a result of this project.
Enclosure 3B (Page 2 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
Applications for funding must include narrative responses that address the following four criteria. Within each criterion, subcriteria are listed in descending order of importance. Limit your responses to the areas provided.
1. Reducing Fire Risk. (40 points))
A. Describe how the proposal promotes reduction of risk in high hazard areas or communities.
B. Describe how the proposed project benefits resources on federal land or adjacent non-federal land, or how it protects the safety
of communities.
C. To what extent does the project implement or create a cooperative fuels treatment plan or community fire strategy (include
evidence of the plan if it already exists)?
D. Explain to what extent the affected community or proponent has been involved or plans to involve the affected community in a
qualified fuels education program (e.g., FIREWISE).
E. Explain how the proposal (a) leads to, enhances or restores a local fire-adapted ecosystem, and/or (b) mitigates or leads to the
mitigation of hazardous fuel conditions.
F. How will the proposed treatments be maintained over time?
By allowing the rural fire districts as well as Oregon Department of Forestry to target those areas or
residences in their communities they consider at a higher risk for catastrophic wild land fire, we hope to be
able to encourge them to take the necessary steps to reduce their risk with proper address identification and
clearances for access as well as promoting fire safe landscaping. The number of wildland fires and their
intensity is increasing, partially due to past forest paractices including but not limited to suppression
practices. Homeowners concerned with aethestics landscape without considering the threat of fire.
By promoting fire safety and responsible homeownership we hope to see increased driveway width, and other
hazard reducing behavior that could benefit those attempting to suppress a wildland fire.
Many residents are unaware of wildfire danger on the west side of the Cascades, and many of the controlled
burns that escape each year prove their apathy, disregard, or uninformed attitudes. By our concerned presence
at their door, we hope to modify these attitudes and behavior, prior to the fire.
By having residents participate in the defensible space check off, and other full color graphic examples, we
hope to educate them in preparing for wildland fires.
As stated before we hope to have enough brochures to distribute at the Clackamas County Fair and other
smaller community events, as well as our planned mailings and door to door campaign.
Response:
2. Increasing local capacity. (30 points)
A. How would the proposal improve or lead to the improvement of the local economy in terms of jobs and sustainable economic
activity? How many jobs are expected to be created or retained and for how long (please distinguish between essentially yearround and seasonal jobs)?
B. To what extent will this project be offered to serve as a model for other communities?
C. Will biomass or forest fuels be utilized; if so, in what manner and how much?
Response: This
publication will be hand distributed by local fire agencies who will use regular employees as
well as employ some senior citizens and pay some volunteer firefighters for their time on the door-to-door
campaign. Employment opportunities will be a one time opportunity for a limited time.
If this project works as well as we hope, other communities would be welcome to use it as a model or modify
it to work in their own community.
Enclosure 3B (Page 3 of 3) - Project Evaluation Criteria
3. Increasing interagency and intergovernmental coordination. (15 Points)
A. Describe how this project implements a local intergovernmental strategy plan, or creates such a plan. Describe the plan if it
already exists.
B. Explain the level of cooperation, coordination or strategic planning among federal, state, tribal, local government and
community organizations. List the cooperators.
Response:
As members of two Fire Prevention Co-ops, many agencies are represented. Each partner will be involved
with the door-to-door implementation. Mt. Hood National Forest and Oregon Department of Forestry are
cooperating as well. Partners committed to participate include: Canby Fire Dist, Colton Fire Dist, Molalla
Fire Dist, Clackamas County Fire Dist #1, Estacada Rural Fire Dist, Lake Oswego Fire Dist, Tualatin Valley
Fire and Rescue, Gladstone Fire Dept, Hoodland Fire Dist, Sandy Fire Dist, Boring Fire Dist, Corbett Fire
Dept, Northwest Association of Fire Trainers, Mt Hood Fire Prevention Association, Clackamas County Fire
Prevention Co-op. Each Fire District has determined target areas based on the possibility and probability of
catastrophic wildland fires in their strategic fire prevention plan. Expertise comes from the educational
material (handout) developed by the Pacific Northwest Coordination Group (USFS, BLM, ODF, DNR and
State Fire Marshall office).
4. Expanding Community Participation. (15 Points)
A. To what extent have interested people and communities been provided an opportunity to become informed and involved in this
proposal?
B. Describe the extent of local support for the project, including any cost-sharing arrangements.
C. What are the environmental, social and educational benefits of the project?
Response:
Each Fire District was planning to do a defensible space campaign, developing materials on their own. The
two co-ops got involved and planned on producing and distributing a publication on their own, but this
proved to be to expensive.
All local fire agencies in Clackamas County have been invited to participate. Most districts belong to one of
two fire prevention co-ops. All members of both Co-ops have givin their unanimous support and pledged a
total of $18,375.00 in kind labor to achieve our goal. Mt. Hood National Forest will contribute $3,000.00 of
in kind labor, Oregon Dept of Forestry (Clackamas-Marion District) will contribute $3040.00 of in kind
labor, Clackamas County Fire Prevention Co-op will contribute $1000.00 in cash, Mt. Hood Fire Prevention
Association will contribute $500.00 in cash.
The benefits of this project are to reduce the risk of landowners causing a wildland fire and reduce the
damage caused by a wildland fire, make suppression efforts safer and more efficient, and to educate the
homeowner in ways they can reduce the risk of losing their home in a wildland fire.
Enclosure 3C - Project Work Form
Tasks
Time Frame
Responsible Party
Modify publication to reflect local agencies
(if awarded by June 1st) Done before
June 1, 2002
Oregon Department of Forestry
Have publication "Living with Fire" printed
June 15, 2002
Mt Hood National Forest
Distribute materials to all partners
June 30, 2002
Oregon Department of Forestry
Distribution through the Oregonian
newspaper, local papers, and bulk mailings
July 1, 2002
Mt. Hood National Forest and Local
Fire Districts
Door to door campaign
July 7 through July 28, 2002
All participating agencies
Follow up monitoring
July 14 through August 11, 2002
All participating agencies
Monitoring reports collected
by August 18, 2002
Estacada Rural Fire District
Accomplishment report and Powerpoint
presentation
August 25, 2002
Estacada Rural Fire District and
Oregon Department of Forestry
Enclosure 3D Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Applicant
Partner 1
Partner 2
Total
Personnel
door to door distribution
follow up monitoring
Subtotal
$6,000.00
$4,000.00
$10,000.00
$1,600.00
$400.00
$2,000.00
$4,025.00
$2,015.00
$6,040.00
$14,700.00
$3,675.00
$18,375.00
$0.00
$26,325.00
$10,090.00
$36,415.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$40,000.00
$0.00
$40,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$4,000.00
$2,000.00
$6,000.00
Fringe Benefits
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Travel
Subtotal
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Equipment
Subtotal
$0.00
Supplies
printing/bulk mail
$40,000.00
Subtotal
$40,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Contractual
Oregonian
Local Papers
Subtotal
$4,000.00
$2,000.00
$6,000.00
Other
mailing
2000
Subtotal
$2,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
$0.00
$2,000.00
Total Costs
$58,000.00
$2,000.00
$6,040.00
$18,375.00
$84,415.00
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
1
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Program income is the gross revenue generated by a grant or cooperative agreement supported activity during the life of
the grant. Program income can be made by recipients from fees charged for conference or workshop attendance, from rental
fees earned from renting out real property or equipment acquired with grant or cooperative agreement funds, or from the sale
of commodities or items developed under the grant or cooperative agreement. The use of Program Income during the
project period may require prior approval by the granting agency.