Del Norte Fire Safe Council
PO Box 1135, Crescent City, CA 95531
Old School Firewise Community
Upcoming Meetings
Old School Firewise
Kickoff Meeting
Gasquet Legion Hall
July 9, 2026 4 PM to 6 PM
Join us for the first Old School Firewise Community meeting on July 9 from 4:00–6:00 PM at the Gasquet Legion Hall.
This important kickoff meeting will introduce residents to the Firewise program, review the community’s 3-year action plan, begin planning our first educational workshop, explain how to report completed wildfire-preparedness work, and provide time for questions.
Community participation is key, and all residents are encouraged to attend.
Help Shape Old School Firewise Priorities
Old School residents are invited to complete our Community Wildfire Preparedness Survey. Your responses will help identify local wildfire risks, household needs, training interests, and priorities for future neighborhood projects and workshops.
Take the Old School Firewise Survey →
Prefer a paper copy?
Download the printable survey or contact the Del Norte Fire Safe Council for assistance.
About the Old School Firewise Community
In Gasquet, wildfire preparedness starts with place.
The Old School Firewise Community sits along the Smith River corridor, near U.S. Highway 199 and Gasquet Flat Road, where homes, roads, river vegetation, and forested wildlands come together. It is a beautiful place to live — surrounded by trees, water, wildlife, and the landscapes that make Del Norte County special. But that same setting also means residents understand that wildfire is not a distant concern. It is part of living in a rural, forested community.
The Old School Firewise Community began with a simple idea: neighbors are stronger when they prepare together. One property owner cleaning gutters, clearing brush, improving vents, or preparing an evacuation plan makes a difference. A whole neighborhood doing those things together can make an even bigger difference.
Through the Firewise USA® framework, residents are working to turn local knowledge into local action. The community’s work focuses on education, home hardening, defensible space, fuel reduction, evacuation readiness, and better communication among neighbors. These are practical steps — the kind of work that happens before fire season, before an evacuation warning, and before an emergency is at the doorstep.
Del Norte Fire Safe Council is helping support this effort by assisting with community organization, wildfire-preparedness information, action planning, vegetation-management opportunities, and annual Firewise documentation. But the heart of the Old School Firewise Community is its residents. Firewise is built by people who care about their homes, their neighbors, and the future of the place they share.
The story of Old School Firewise is not about making the community “fireproof.” No community can promise that. It is about doing the work that can reduce risk, improve readiness, and give residents a better chance when wildfire threatens. It is about clearing what can burn, hardening what can be protected, knowing where to go, checking on neighbors, and building a culture of preparedness one household at a time.
This page is here to help keep that work moving. Residents can find updates, meeting information, local priorities, volunteer opportunities, preparedness resources, and ways to report completed wildfire risk-reduction work. Whether you have lived in Gasquet for decades or are new to the neighborhood, the Old School Firewise Community is an invitation to take part in protecting the place we all value.