On Thursday April 25, 2024 we will have an evacuation drill here in Deer Valley Estates from 1PM to 3PM. This drill is being coordinated with La Plata County Emergency Management (CodeRED). Please see the attached flyer for additional information.
This evacuation drill is part of our updated Community Wide Protection Plan (CWPP), which is available on the DVE website (deervalleyestates.net).
You can click on the link in the flyer and sign up for La Plata County CodeRED if you have never signed up for emergency alerts through CodeRED. Or, check to make sure that you are signed up if you have done so in the past.
On April 25th, DVE residents that have signed up for CodeRED will receive a text message and/or a phone call to evacuate. There will be a check-in van parked in the DVE right of way at the fence corner of Beaver Creek Drive and Wieland Drive. After checking in, you will be able to turn around and return home. There will be snacks, additional information and La Plata County officials available to talk to.
We will send this flyer out a few more times between now and April 25th as a reminder along with additional information. We would like as many residents as possible to participate in this evacuation drill. We know that many people do work and not everyone will be available.
Please contact Les Kole or myself if you have any questions.
Thank You,
Mark Wagner
Les Kole
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Notes from our Wildfire Adapted Partnership Ambassador:
FireWise of Southwest Colorado has become
Wildfire Adapted Partnership
As of October 1, 2018, FireWise of Southwest Colorado has changed its name to Wildfire Adapted Partnership. The organization has been around since 2003, starting as a grassroots effort after the Missionary Ridge Fire. Since that time, FireWise has operated under a fiscal agent but received its own 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt status this summer. Therefore, it is now its own standalone nonprofit under the new name Wildfire Adapted Partnership.
Wildfire Adapted Partnership inspires, motivates, educates and serves individuals, organizations and communities joining together to protect lives and property from wildfire. It has wildfire education and mitigation incentive programs in all five southwest Colorado counties: Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma and San Juan.
The Neighborhood Ambassador Program is the backbone of Wildfire Adapted Partnership. Volunteer ambassadors serve as catalysts within their communities encouraging their neighbors to become aware, proactive, and more prepared for wildfires. There are approximately 150 volunteers participating in the Ambassador Program representing 95 subdivisions/communities throughout southwest Colorado. On average Ambassadors and other members of their communities donate 20,000 volunteer hours annually completing outreach and wildfire risk reduction activities.
The Ambassador for Deer Valley Estates is Les Kole. He can be reached at 970-884-0560.
Additionally, Wildfire Adapted Partnership provides reimbursements to homeowners who complete wildfire mitigation activities through incentive programs such as the Chipper Rental Rebate and Defensible Space Site Visit and Cost Share programs. In the last year and a half, the organization has completed approximately 450 free site visits, providing homeowners with guidance on how to protect their properties from wildfire and has spent more than $275,000 in rebates to homeowners and communities who completed fire mitigation activities.
To learn more about Wildfire Adapted Partnership and its programs, please visit its new website, at www.wildfireadapted.org or call its Durango office at 970-385-8909.