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National Fire Plan Success Story

State Fire Symposium Conference
North Carolina Division of Forest Resources
2006

The North Carolina Firewise Council and North Carolina Division of Forest Resources introduced North Carolina emergency service managers, planners, realtors, developers, natural resource managers, and community leaders to wildland urban interface during a three-day conference in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The state symposium delivered fifty-seven educational sessions into five conference tracks that allowed nearly 300 attendees to customize their wildland urban interface educational experience. The program schedule allowed attendees to maximize networking with like-minded professionals, share best practices and learn about funding opportunities and techniques that will help protect communities and provide quicker, more efficient response in the event of a wildfire.

U.S. Congressman Howard Coble delivered the welcoming address during the opening session. In addition, David Brownlie, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, spoke about the importance of wildfire in the ecosystem. Dan Olsen, USDA Forest Service, along with Dan Smith, North Carolina Division of Forest Resources, discussed wildfire in North Carolina and the Southeast. Rolland Van Wart of the Carolina Lakes Community, a Firewise Communities USA recognized community and Buren Fulmer of the North Carolina Division of Forest Resources spoke about North Carolina’s Firewise Communities program and its associated process.

The second day of the symposium featured Edy Williams-Rhodes, National Park Service, sharing her perspectives on wildland fire and wildland urban interface challenges in the South.

This symposium was a successful catalyst to add several Firewise-influenced local landscape and development ordinances, support new Firewise USA communities, and further wildland urban-interface awareness throughout the state.

Contact: Shardul Raval, North Carolina Division of Forest Resources, 919-857-4850, shardul.raval@ncmail.net.