Wildfire Defense; Science, Wisdom and Common Sense

Send us Fan Mail Earthquakes and Wildfire and Some Lessons Worth Learning Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Funk discusses with us the upcoming El Nino season and its causes and effects around the world. Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail The Executive Director discusses her background, the job and how she almost didn't take it, and what a perfect fit it has turned out to be. Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Laura Caps discusses Edison company's interface with local customers and a short discussion on some rural roads Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Rob Hazard, retired Fire Marshal of Santa Barbara County Fire shares his perspective garnered from hIs decades addressing wildfire in Santa Barbara County.  Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Leila Caravalho, Professor of Climate and Meteorology in the Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara talks with us about the vagaries and effects of wind in Southern Santa Barbara County  Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for l...

Send us Fan Mail Kate Furlong, SBCFSC Community Resilience Program Manager, discusses the role and future of the organization. Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Christina Sandoval shares her Knowledge of some lesser Known residents of the Chaparral Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Dennis Clegg talks about evacuating and losing his home in the Thomas Fire Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Stephan Doughherty, Montecito Fire Commissioner and member of Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue discuses evacuation preparedness options. Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail UCSB professor Carla D' Antonio shares with us some perspectives on the Chaparral and how it has been effected by the changes in its surroundings over thousands of years, Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Years of experience with preparation for and extinguishing wild land fire has given Steve a unique perspective for instructing residents and firefighters in suppression and survival in wild fire Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for...

Send us Fan Mail Ray Ford talks about the recent wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena and their ramifications  Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Chief David Neels of Montecito Fire Department discusses his history in the fire service and directions Montecito is taking now and in the future with wildland fire Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Mark Von Tillow, veteran fire fighter with more than three decades with the USFS discusses his experience and the changes to wildland fire behavior and suppression he is already seeing and anticipating. Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks a...

Send us Fan Mail Santa Barbara City Fire Department Battalion Chief John Ahlman Retired, recalls more than four decades service with three different fire departments Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Santa Barbara County Retired Fire Marshall Rob Hazard talks about Fire on the Urban side of the WUI Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. D'Antonio,professor and researcher at UC Santa Barbara returns to drill down into the difference between  plant communities and their response to wild land fire and how we best protect life and environment within them. Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means...

Send us Fan Mail  Max A. Moritz, Ph. D.  Wildfire Specialist at U.C. Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources and Adjunct Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science joins us to discuss how, many factors are responsible for the way wildfires move through various environments. Plant community, weather, building construction, topography, fuel reduction and many other factors contrib...

Send us Fan Mail Nic Elmquist is the Wildland Fire Specialist at the Montecito Fire District.   Nic is a member of an Incident Management Team and travels extensively around the West as he is assigned to different campaign fires. In this edition of Surviving Disaster one of the things he explains is the Incident Command System and its benefits  Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information ab...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Surviving Disaster we are joined by Carla D'Antonio PHD, Professor of Ecology in Environmental Studies at UCSB. We are broadly discussing  the controlled impacts of fire on the chaparral and the people who choose to share it. Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for...

Send us Fan Mail Ted and Rob discuss wildfire behavior, defensible space zones, home hardening Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...

Send us Fan Mail Bendy White, a well known and respected member of the community in Santa Barbara talks with us about his family's relationship with fire and chaparral since their purchase of some acreage above Mountain Drive in the 20's He talks about the formation and founders of the Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council in the 1990's and the concept of bringing home owners and t...

Send us Fan Mail Gary Warkentin Chief Administrative Officer for Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Department joins us for a broad discussion of his history, work, direction and aspiration in his position Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening....

Send us Fan Mail Ray Ford,  teacher, back country expert, author, photographer and journalist shares his life through the 70s forward  Contact Ted at ted@paintedcave.com for information about guests or becoming a guest or program critiques. We depend on criticism for one of our main means of improvement.  Thanks again for listening...