My Thoughts about our Elk Creek FPD

To maintain the high standards of the Elk Creek FPD, the board must ensure the Elk Creek FPD has the necessary resources for continued success: Read More

We live in one of the highest-risk wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas in the state and the nation. Wildfires don’t respect property lines or FPD boundaries, so we need to be able to mount a rapid, coordinated response to them when they occur:

The issues articulated by Elk Creek FPD and Conifer Fire with respect to declining volunteerism are documented in reports from Jefferson County, State, and national-level organizations like the Colorado Department of Fire Prevention and Control (CDFPC), Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS), United States Forest Service (USFS), and the US Fire Administration. Read More

Other FPDs, locally and across the country, are facing the same challenges, and to address them, they are: Read More

Unification into Conifer Fire, created legally through the Exclusion/Inclusion process, is a NET positive for residents in the current Elk Creek Fire Protection District (ECFPD): Read More