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 […]
We began our Firewise journey with an initial organizing meeting on October 3, 2025 at the home of resident…
On April 11, the Estates Fountains Firewise Community held a neighborhood evacuation drill to practice quickly gathering essentials and safely exiting the area. Despite rainy weather, 20 neighbors (and a few dogs!) participated, meeting at Zion Lutheran Church to debrief […]
Submitted by Frank Dauby, Resident Lead: Parkridge Estates is a well-established neighborhood of approximately 250 homes entirely East of Skyline Blvd. We are located south of Skyline High School and our eastern perimeter abuts Chabot Regional Park, thus truly on […]
