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Southern California\u2019s top fire officials met behind closed doors in East Los Angeles Friday to discuss the outlook for this year\u2019s peak fire season and how to coordinate the region\u2019s world-class firefighters to keep communities safe.<\/p>\n

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At a press conference afterward, officials stressed that even though coastal Southern California is not expected to have an exceptionally dangerous fire season, they are doing everything they can to protect Californians. They urged residents to do the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear that wildfires are no longer solely a fire-service problem. They are an all-of-us problem,\u201d said Orange County Fire Authority Interim Chief T.J. McGovern, standing in front of a suite of emergency response vehicles at L.A. County Fire Department\u2019s headquarters. \u201cThey can only be mitigated by all of us working together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coastal Southern California, which had the third-wettest season in record within the last 15 years, can expect a typical wildfire season, fire weather analysts predict. That\u2019s in sharp contrast to Northern California, which saw a record-breaking March heat wave melt mountain snowpack early. Fire officials typically rely on the snowpack to keep vegetation green and moist into summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe interesting thing about last year is that it was the southern half of the state that was significantly drier,\u201d said Cal Fire Director Joe Tyler at a wildfire season outlook briefing last month. This year, he said, \u201cwe\u2019re seeing that critical condition really spreading across Northern California.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coastal Southern California must still endure a before reaching typical conditions July through September \u2014 and even \u201ctypical\u201d conditions remain dangerous, which is why officials urged Southern Californians Friday to remain vigilant.<\/p>\n

A series of fires mid-May served as a warning shot for the region. The Sandy fire in Ventura County destroyed one home and damaged two more structures. The Santa Rosa Island fire burned through a third of the second-largest Channel island.<\/p>\n

Officials at Friday\u2019s Southern California meeting urged homeowners to do what they can to harden their homes against wildfire \u2014 including covering vents with mesh to prevent embers from entering the home and using multi-paned tempered windows that are less likely to shatter in extreme heat.<\/p>\n

They also asked homeowners to maintain defensible space around homes by clearing dead vegetation in their yards, making sure there is space between shrubs and trees and creating a 5-foot buffer around homes with nothing combustible, including plants.<\/p>\n

Homeowners should also make sure they\u2019re signed up for evacuation alerts from their local fire department, the chiefs added, and should not hesitate to evacuate at the sight or smell of smoke \u2014 regardless of whether an official evacuation has been ordered.<\/p>\n

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As for their part, Southern California fire departments have been working to thin out hazardous vegetation surrounding communities and remain at the ready to respond to fires.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will show up. We show up every time, across every jurisdiction … That\u2019s not a question,\u201d said Los Angeles City Fire Department Chief Jaime Moore. However, without defensible space at individual homes, it is \u201cvery difficult for us to be able to combat those fires.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Los Angeles and Ventura county fire departments have been working to remove flammable vegetation surrounding communities in the Santa Monica Mountains with fire department crews, goats and prescribed fire. The U.S. Forest Service has been doing similar work in the San Gabriel Mountains.<\/p>\n

The crews are working to create a network of vegetation-free pathways, called fuel breaks, that can slow fires and give firefighters strategic access to wildlands to combat blazes. They are also working to remove particularly flammable invasive grasses.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we share our preparation to defend communities and build wildfire resilience, it\u2019s a call to action,\u201d Angeles National Forest Fire Chief Robert Garcia said. \u201cIt\u2019s now a shift to individual homeowners and communities to start leveraging some of that work that your agencies are doing.\u201d <\/p>\n

While this kind of landscape-wide work has significantly increased in the state over the past five years, California is running out of money to complete such projects.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the U.S. Forest Service saw a decrease in how much work it could complete after the Trump administration significantly reduced the size of the service\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n

Neither the state\u2019s funding woes nor the shrinking of the federal workforce are expected to impact firefighting ability.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is absolutely as strong as ever,\u201d Tyler said last month of the federal and state government\u2019s ability to respond to fires.<\/p>\n

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