Welcome to Starbright Acres Firewise Community!
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Certificate and Go Bag!
Some of you may benefit from letting your homeowner’s insurance company that you are part of a Firewise Community. Many companies do give a discount (amounts vary) to you with this designation.
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We are Firewise!
Greetings Starbright Acres Firewise Community! That’s right. Our application was accepted and approved by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). We are now Firewise! This is great news. Please note that we had assistance from a board member of the Nevada County FireSafe Council, but our approval was from NFPA and CalFire. We are not…
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Starbright Acres Firewise Committee Holds its First Community Meeting
On June 24, 2025 we had our first (annual) community-wide gathering. Nearly 50 neighbors attended! Lauren Drutz (6B and Friends Firewise Community organizer) and Steve Eubanks from the Nevada County Fire Safe Coalition offered informative presentations. We all had a chance to re-connect with old friends and meet new neighbors. After several visits and walks…
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Toward a Firewise Starbright Acres
Greetings neighbors! Thank you to all who filled out the form indicating your interest in the Starbright Acres neighborhood becoming a Firewise Community! We had a first organizing meeting this week (Cyrus and Andi, Kris and Jim, Tart and Sandy, Bruce, Nadine and Tom, Chris, Marta and myself) met this week and we have some…
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Why Firewise?
Many of us remember clearly the Wind Complex fires when the McCourtney Fire and the Lobo Fire burned in our community. That same night, four people died in the Cascade and LaPorte fires in Yuba County and 22 people died in the Sonoma Complex Fire (Nuns, Tubbs, and Pocket Fires) which burned over 110,700 acres in…