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Backyards & Beyond Wildland Fire Conference to be Held in October

Published Date: 06.28.2011

The National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Wildland Fire Operations Division and Firewise Communities Program are holding the 2011 Backyards & Beyond Wildland Fire Education Conference in Denver, CO, from Thursday, October 27 – Saturday October 29. A pre-conference workshop, Assessing Wildfire Hazards in the Home Ignition Zone, will be presented Tuesday and Wednesday, October 25-26 by Jack Cohen, Research Physical Scientist, USDA Forest Service and Gary Marshall, Firewise Regional Advisor.

Registration for the 2-day workshop and conference is available online, through the mail, fax or by phone.  Visit NFPA’s registration page for more information.

With more than 50 breakout sessions in five educational tracks, the Backyards & Beyond Wildland Fire Conference offers a unique opportunity to build relationships and explore key issues, and brings together leading wildland fire experts, Firewise® community representatives, community planners, civic leaders, homeowners and residents, insurance professionals, landscape architects and others to share best-practices that can be taken back to communities or the workplace.

About the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
NFPA is a worldwide leader in fire, electrical, building, and life safety. The mission of the international nonprofit organization founded in 1896 is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education. Visit NFPA’s web site at www.nfpa.org for more information.

About Firewise
The Firewise Communities Program encourages local solutions for wildfire safety by involving homeowners, community leaders, planners, developers, firefighters, and others in creating fire-adapted communities – places where people and property are safer from the risk of brush, grass, and forest fires. The program is co-sponsored by the USDA Forest Service, the US Department of the Interior and the National Association of State Foresters. For more information, visit www.firewise.org.

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