Local Advocacy
SAFRR’s advocacy in local jurisdictions spans three interconnected areas and often faces challenges where public safety, climate change, and land use intersect.
Climate change - alert systems and fire behavior modeling research
Land use decisions - advocate, fund studies, and challenge in court
Public safety - emergency planning and emergency traffic evacuation analyses
Research on climate change has found that increased periods of drought, hotter temperatures and high winds are fueling more intense and faster moving fires; thus, SAFRR supports:
- Fire behavior modeling and fire alert systems;
- Emergency planning and evacuation studies, whether publicly or privately funded, to assess threats and infrastructure limitations; and
- Legal challenges to ensure local officials account for fire safety and code enforcement when approving new housing or commercial development in fire-prone zones.
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