UC Cooperative Extension, with special funding from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, developed a site that creates awareness of wildfire risks and hazards and offers tips on how to reduce them: www.wildfirezone.org
UC Cooperative Extension in Los Angeles County has a SAFE (Sustainable and Fire Safe) Landscapes Program.
UC Cooperative Extension also offers assistance in Spanish through a toll-free hotline (1-800-514-4494). For those facing evacuation or relocating to a shelter, AsisTel de la UC includes information on steps that can make the process easier, as well as messages on protecting home and family from future fires. Also, there is information in Spanish in print and audio on preventing, coping and recovering after a wildfire. View additional Cooperative Extension tips on what to do before, during and after a wildfire: in English and in Spanish.
UC Berkeley's Center for Fire Research and Outreach also has information. The site includes a toolkit (http://firecenter.berkeley.edu/toolkit) that provides interactive tools to help homeowners, decision-makers and researchers better understand where wildfires occur and how to protect homes and neighborhoods, as well as get up-to-the-minute wildfire news. View more information on the toolkit.
UC Irvine assistant professor of informatics Bill Tomlinson and a team of students last year created a free Web site, www.CalFireHelp.com, to help residents displaced by the Southern California wildfires find temporary housing by electronically matching them with others who would like to offer assistance.
UC Merced expert on the effect of climate change on wildfires: Anthony Westerling. awesterling@ucmerced.edu, (209) 228-4099
UC San Francisco pulmonary specialist Homer Boushey
UC Santa Barbara University Art Museum to make architectural plans available to owners of homes destroyed by Tea Fire. See also: UC Santa Barbara's Southern California Wildfire Center
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Other resources:
American Red Cross