{"id":2121,"date":"2016-05-26T22:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T22:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2016-05-26T22:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T22:47:44","slug":"citizen-sparkplugs-can-reduce-red-zone-fire-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2016\/05\/26\/citizen-sparkplugs-can-reduce-red-zone-fire-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen \u2018Sparkplugs\u2019 Can Reduce Red-Zone Fire Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2016\/05\/wildfire_mitigation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2122\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2016\/05\/wildfire_mitigation.jpg\" alt=\"wildfire_mitigation\" width=\"660\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2016\/05\/wildfire_mitigation.jpg 660w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2016\/05\/wildfire_mitigation-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Study finds that busy government agencies get help from individuals who motivate neighbors to protect homes from wildfire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Deserai Crow\u2019s \u201cWildfire Outreach and Citizen Entrepreneurs in the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Cross-Case Analysis in Colorado\u201d was the subject of an article in the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/artsandsciences.colorado.edu\/magazine\/2015\/12\/citizen-sparkplugs-can-reduce-red-zone-fire-danger\" target=\"_blank\">Citizen \u2018sparkplugs\u2019 can reduce red-zone fire danger<\/a> by Clay Evans. The article noted a key finding was that \u201c\u2019certain people, the citizen entrepreneurs, don\u2019t just take agency information and bring it to the community, \u2026 They go above and beyond, and take initiative on their own time, using their own resources, or grants or other resources, to do things like bring a (wood) chipper into a community. \u2026 They built a whole new level of trust with their neighbors.\u2019 For many residents, that is a more effective vector of information and motivation than having a public agency telling them what to do.\u201d CSTPR graduate students Elizabeth Koebele, Lydia Lawhon, and Rebecca Schild also participated in the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds that busy government agencies get help from individuals who motivate neighbors to protect homes from wildfire Deserai Crow\u2019s \u201cWildfire Outreach and Citizen Entrepreneurs in the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Cross-Case Analysis in Colorado\u201d was the subject of an article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2016\/05\/26\/citizen-sparkplugs-can-reduce-red-zone-fire-danger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 01:44:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}