Resource Conservation District of Santa Monica Mountains is hosting a Community Wildfire Mitigation Training event at the Calabasas Community Center.
Please Join Wildfire Expert Instructor Pat Durland
at a FREE Community Wildfire Mitigation Training
When: Friday evening, May 23, and Saturday, May 24, 2025
Where: Calabasas Community Center: 27040 Malibu Hills Rd, Calabasas, CA 91301
At this two-day training event attendees will learn about wildfire regimes and the importance of home hardening and defensible space practices to make their homes and communities less vulnerable to wildfire ember ignition.
Those who complete the two presentation sessions and participate in the in-person structure analysis will receive a Certificate of Completion.
A Zoom option is available, however, in-person participation is preferable.
Presentations Structural Analysis
Friday: 5:00 – 7:15 PM Lecture – Calabasas Community Center (in-person or Zoom)
Saturday: 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Lecture – Calabasas Community Center (in-person or Zoom)
Saturday: 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM – Lunch
Saturday: 2:30 – 4:30 PM – Offsite Structure Analysis
With more than 35 years of experience and dedication to reducing wildfire losses, our instructor, Pat Durland, started Stone Creek Fire LLC (SCF) to share proven wildfire loss reduction strategies and tactics with the many communities facing these potential losses. Since 2004, SCF has played a national role in communicating, planning, and implementing wildfire mitigation programs and principles that reduce these potential tragedies and damages by fighting wildfire losses ‘smarter, rather than harder!’
Please contact Molly Ross, [email protected] to register for this event.
Instructor Pat Durland
requests that before the event, you please watch this important documentary from PBS:
The REAL Story of the LA Fires | Full Documentary
Please click on above link to watch the video.
