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Denise Enea will provide us with details about what is necessary for an ember-resistant home. She will discuss the importance of near-structure vegetation management, fire-resistant building materials, and related design features.
Denise Enea served the Woodside, California Fire Protection District for 24 years in many roles including as Fire Prevention Expert, Fire Investigator and, ultimately as Fire Marshal.
As fire marshal, she worked closely with local town governments to develop plans and programs to cut wildfire risk. She helped start an incentive program for home hardening whereby residents receive up to $2,000 from the town to make their homes more fire-resistant and a chipper program in which the fire district picks up brush after people clean up their property, then cuts it up and disposes of it.
Now retired, Enea continues to work for wildfire resiliency as Executive Director of Fire Safe San Mateo County, the first fire safe council in the country. The organization is dedicated to protecting property and the environment for county residents in the wildland/urban interface through public/private partnerships.
She is a sought-after speaker about how to start with our homes and our communities to better protect ourselves from wildfire destruction.
