NFPA issues call for proposals for Backyards and Beyond Wildland Fire Education Conference

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) will host its 5th Backyards & Beyond Wildland Fire Education Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 14 – 16, 2013, and is now accepting proposals for educational presentations. The conference is organized by NFPA’s Wildland Fire Operations Division and Firewise® Communities Program.

The Backyards & Beyond Wildland Fire Education Conference presents participants with a unique opportunity to build relationships and explore key issues regarding wildland fire, and to learn how to prepare homes and communities for, and adapt to living with wildfire.

For more information, including the application process, see the full NFPA release.

Comments

[Tom Kelly]

8/15/12
Gentlemen
We are experiencing multiple fires NOW in Northern calif have just had massive fires in Colorado. time to change our forest management practices and develop methods to put the fires out. we can go to the moon I want to go to the store
Tom Kelly
Paradise and Butte County Calif Fire Safe council

[Susan Cain Tellem]

We are in a battle to save out lives and our homes in Malibu. There is a plan to put overnight camping in a beautiful wilderness park with a history of deadly fires in the area. We want that park to be a buffer not a source of ignition. Fire season is all year in Malibu, but a group says it will allow camping in that area nine months out of 12. We need help to prevent this from happening. Suggestions?