KFSC Incorporation

Kern Fire Safe Council was incorporated in March 2020, just as the pandemic restrictions were being put in place. To begin public education, KFSC created a website and hosted live webinars with various disaster preparation and wildfire mitigation experts, which were then posted on the website.

Once pandemic restrictions were lifted, KFSC applied to and received awards from the California Fire Foundation (CFF) and Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FACNET) which funded go-bags, evacuation supplies and printed materials for the public. With these in hand, KFSC partnered with Kern County Fire Department and the US Forest Service, to provide a school program to teach 4th & 5th graders disaster preparedness and wildfire prevention. Ready, Set, Go and Wildfire Prevention were taught in six wildland urban interface schools. These students brought home go-bags, emergency radios and information to jump start their family’s preparedness efforts.