Working Together to Keep Our Families, Our Homes, and Our Forest, Safe
Welcome to the Galena Forest Community (GFC) website, your communication hub for all things relating to wildfire safety in our neighborhood! On this Home Page, you will find news on upcoming neighborhood fire safety activities and projects when they are planned. Using the menu buttons above, you will find educational material to help you plan your own defensible-space projects, information regarding evacuation preparedness and procedures, and the latest fire-safety information prepared by our local, state, and national partners.
Our Happy Hour with Fire Experts had a great turnout! Click here for details.
Surprise announcement at the Happy Hour: The Galena Forest Community is now an official entity — "Galena Forest Community Wildfire Mitigation, Inc." (We had to identify in the name that we are NOT an HOA, subject to Nevada Real Estate The significance of this step is that as a 501(c)(3) corporation, we are able to accept donations, allowing us to raise the bar for our educational events. Over the past 4-years of building our FirewiseUSA collaboration, our volunteers have been covering our expenses. With 554 residents to serve, an annual donation of $25/year per residence will be sufficient to allow us to present wildfire educational programs that will be not only informing, they will benefit all of us.
Your fully deductible donations can be made anytime via Zelle, using the tag: "gfcwildfire" And of course they can be dropped off at our address: 1740 Green Ash Road.
Together, we can make Galena Forest safer and more prepared to withstand a wildfire's approach.
*** UPCOMING EVENTS! ***
Galena Creek Trail Clean-up
*June 20th
We need your help to reduce wildfire fuels along Galena Creek. We'll create conditions for a healthier forest, and beautify the trail! Please spend a few hours volunteering to make this project a success.
Help us create a safer, healthier, and more beautiful Galena Creek Trail!
Partners attending:
Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District
Washoe County and Galena Creek Regional Park
And residents like YOU!
A Week Of Action
*June 24th thru June 29th
Protect your home and your community from wildfire by removing dead or dying vegetation, and thinning out dense or overgrown fuels. The Galena Forest Community Fire Committee is having four 30-yard waste dumpsters delivered to our community to facilitate our removal of wildfire fuels on private property. These dumpsters are donated from a program put together by Waste Management Reno, State Farm Insurance, and the Reno Fire Department. Let's take advantage of their generosity!
These particular dumpsters are designated for green or dead vegetation only, as their contents go to a composting facility, NOT the landfill. Absolutely no household garbarge, construction debris, animal waste, or any hazardous waste of any kind can be placed in these dumpsters.
We'll provide additional information on locations soon!
— FORMATION
The GFC was formed by neighborhood volunteers with the help of Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue, Nevada Division of Forestry, the Fire Adaptaded Nevada department of NDF, and the National Fire Protection Association/Firewise USA. The boundaries of our Community as approximated on our Boundaries Map, were defined by our professional firefighters. They consider the GFC to be a geographically homogeneous wildfire-risk zone and manage it as such. With all the various HOA's and hundreds of independent properties now included under one Firewise USA umbrella, we can efficiently coordinate everything pertaining to wildfire in one place for all of our residents.
Please note that being a part of the GFC is like being a part of your Zip Code; no need to opt-in as you're included by your physical location.
— COST
There is no cost to us for all the help and materials provided by the agencies mentioned above. All they ask is that everybody in the GFC do their part to help mitigate our man-made and naturally occuring wildfire risks. To that end, if asked, they will gladly help identify risks on our individual properties. Use the Contact Us page to make a request for risk assessment.
— COMMUNICATIONS
As email is no-cost, it will be our primary method of contact. If you have not already done so, please use the Contact Us page to provide your communicaions information. Your information will be kept strictly confidential — never shared nor abused.
That same Contact Us page and form is designed to be used for all of your general communications with the GFC Committee. Questions and suggestions are encouraged.
— VOLUNTEERING:
The GFC Committee will welcome your participation as a member of the Committee and/or as a Neighborhood Ambassador. Even though every resident of the GFC will receive all Community communications, we are going to strive to have at least one point of contact for each street or block in the Community. Neighborly, personal contact will further extend our communications network in a zero-cost way. Please consider showing your support and enthusiasm for the GFC as an Ambassador, as the more individuals we have, the easier each one's job will be. Request information via the Contact Us page.
