By Jill Kinney, CastleGate Firewise Committee Chair CastleGate includes 100 homes in the Piedmont Pines Neighborhood Association, spanning MONs 2, 3 and 5. After attending a Firewise introductory meeting in summer 2025, I connected with the three MON (Montclair Organized […]
On Saturday, September 19, more than 40 Oakland neighbors from 10 Firewise communities found out during the second annual Oakland Firewise Evacuation Drill. Participating communities included CABSS, CastleGate, Crane Way, Estates Fountains, Grand View, LaMasNa Plus, Mid Canyon, Sayre/Saroni, Skyline/Moon […]
By Betsy Cotton & Susan Mattmann The Evergreen Slater Neighborhood Firewise community grew out of our neighborhood’s experience living through the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire. The fires came within feet of homes in our Firewise community and tragically destroyed many […]
By Andy Guan, Resident Lead The Sherwick Community and its neighbors were badly damaged in the 1991 Oakland Firestorm, and the area is still home to several survivors. Ever since then, we have been proactively working on fire prevention measures, […]
In June, the Oakland Firesafe Council (OFSC) completed the final project funded through our 2026 PG&E Fuel Reduction Grant. The grant supported targeted vegetation management and structural wildfire mitigation across eight high-priority residential properties in the Oakland Hills’ Very High Fire Hazard Severity […]
