Prescribed Burn Ignition Operations:  Firing For Effect.
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​                                                 Mission and Purpose

Mission and Purpose


Provide information and education about the role of fire and smoke in the ecosystem while promoting nature based solutions for fire adapted communities, both human and biological.
 
Provide a forum for discussions in the art and science of prescribed fire and fire protection policies optimizing the use of integrated fire management and pre planned prescribed burning to protect communities from high intensity wildfire while restoring natural and native fire cycles.

Increase private and agency prescribed burning capacity through facilitation of safe fire and smoke prescription development, coordination of safe prescribed burns, and sponsorship of live fire training and fire management education.
 

The Central Coast Rx Fire Council area of influence is generally described as the the coastal ranges and valleys from Northern Ventura County (Hwy 126) in the South, to Point Reyes in Marin County in the North.

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Tassajara Fire September 19, 2015.  Picture taken 20 minutes after ignition.
​Ten homes destroyed, 1200 acres.  1 fatality. 
Area had not burned since 1930's.

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“A sacred place is one where the earth’s voice can be heard clearly. Go to these places
 and listen. Once you have heard her, she can reach you anywhere”.

                                                                                                     Frederic Lehrman