A Chipper Day
A Chipper Day
is a day in which the Fire Safe Council Chipper is brought to a
community or neighborhood by the Kern River Valley Fire Safe Council
and the Kern County Fire Department. The chipper will turn branches
and shrub material piles into small piles of chips. The chips will be
left on the properties. The chipper is maintained and operated by Kern
County Fire Department personnel. Cutting and piling material for the
chipper is the responsibility of individual property owners.
The Council's policy is to provide chipper days
as a community service, regardless of the number of participants, to
residence, business, and other groups, so long as the work is done for
fuel reduction and the creation of defensible space, and the event is
coordinated to make a reasonable day's work for the crew. Experience
in the past is that in a typical residential community, service to ten
or more properties is needed to provide a reasonable day's work.
The council schedules the chipper day for a neighborhood, working with
property owner associations or other neighborhood groups. These groups
must actually organize the chipper day.
The following materials describe how a chipper
day works. For questions, contact Don
Davis, 760-376-4116 or krvchipperdays@aol.com
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