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April 2025 Update
The following are some of our recent accomplishments. Thanks to the help of our many partners and residents who are making our community safer. Firewise…
Know Your Evacuation Zone
Now is the time to get prepared to avoid tragedy and loss from a fire, earthquake or communications emergency. Your Calabasas Fire Safe Council has…
CAL FIRE Fire Hazard Severity Zones
On March 24, 2025, CAL FIRE released its revised Fire Hazard Severity Zone for your area. This interactive map lets you see where your home…
LA Parent Article
In the current issue of L.A. Parent Magazine, our very own Brian Cameron, President of the Emergency Preparedness In Calabasas Fire Safe Council (EPIC-FSC), gives…
Firewise Certificates
Calabasas already has many Firewise USA® recognized communities. California has enacted “Safer from Wildfires” requiring insurance companies to recognize Firewise USA® designated communities by providing discounts to…
Important information if your home is in a trust
Is your home is in a trust? Putting your home into a Revocable Trust is an estate planning best practice. One of the many challenges…
Our website offers you many resources
Our Calabasas Firewise Website is filled with important information and resources you need to protect your home and family. The Calabasas Firewise website was created…
Welcome to Calabasas Firewise
Welcome: We are excited to welcome the residents of Calabasas to our first Calabasas Firewise website. We will be sending out an informative monthly newsletter,…
Ready! Set! Go!
Ready! Set! Go! Calabasas is one of the most beautiful places to live, but living in a “wildland-urban interface” (WUI) area does come with risks.…
Calabasas Firewise Community Assessments
This recent disturbing graph from CAL FIRE, clearly emphasizes that it is not so much the number of fires that have increased over the past…
Outthink Wildfire
The U.S. has witnessed a steady increase in wildfire activity over the past decade, and experts predict this trend will continue. Despite spending billions of…
Home Insurance Shopping
Home insurance shopping? Has your insurer dropped you? In June 2024 Amy Bach, Esq., Co-founder and Executive Director of United Policyholders, addressed the current home…
Firewise
Firewise was developed by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and is a cooperative effort among local, state, federal and private agencies and organizations to…
RCDSMM Posts New Videos
The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains Community Resilience team, with a grant from CAL FIRE, created a series of videos to help…
Park Fire
The Park Fire in Northern California is now California’s 4th largest wildfire on record. This record is sobering but doesn’t capture the enormous amount of…