URGENT ACTION ALERT 

Fire Protection and Prevention

Please write to Governor Newsom today and urge him to sign three critical fire protection and prevention bills into law. The Governor only has until September 30 to sign or veto these bills. Make your voices heard NOW!

SB 182 (Jackson) reduces the risk of catastrophic wildfire damage to California’s communities by strengthening local planning requirements and guidelines for permitting development in very high fire hazard areas, and directing local governments to develop comprehensive retrofit strategies for structures in their communities that are in need of fire hardening. 

AB 3074 (Friedman) will protect Californians living in high fire hazard areas by modernizing defensible space protections through the creation of a third defensible space zone called an ember-resistant zone. 

AB 3164 (Friedman) requires Cal Fire in consultation with the State Fire Marshall and the Insurance Commissioner, to develop a wildland-urban interface wildfire risk model to empower local communities to know and reduce their wildfire risk.

Call Governor Newsom at (916) 445-2841 and/or send an email — Subject line should read: SB 182, AB 3074 & AB 3164 – request to sign”

To access Gov Newsom email form – click this link: 

https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/

Wade Crowfoot, Secretary for Natural Resources:

 secretary@resources.ca.gov

Deputy Legislative Secretary: 

Rachel.Wagoner@gov.ca.gov 

Governor’s Local Government and Housing Deputy Ronda Paschal:

Ronda.Paschal@gov.ca.gov