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 […]
On August 19th, the California Board of Forestry and Fire Prevention (Cal Fire) approved Zone Zero rules that were substantially the same as the April draft, after edits and definitions that were provided in June. It formally went to the Office […]
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, […]
