Collaborating for a Safe and Resilient Recovery.
Health & Safety Committee
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Elevate Solutions
We elevate priority health and safety concerns, bring partners together to identify practical solutions, and advocate for the resources, protections, and action needed to address them.
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Share Concerns
Residents, partners, and agencies share current health and safety concerns, ongoing work, information, and roadblocks.
How Health & Safety Works
Bring concerns, share information, and work together on solutions.
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Coordinate Efforts
We identify overlap, connect partners and resources, and coordinate where collaboration can strengthen recovery efforts.
Who This Is For
The committee is open to residents, business owners, workers, students, community organizations, and others who live or work in Eaton Fire-impacted communities. County, state, and federal agencies, recovery partners, and representatives from other fire-affected communities are also welcome.
Good To Know
The committee is not an emergency response, medical care, remediation contractor, or direct financial assistance program. We help connect people and organizations, identify gaps, coordinate efforts, and advocate for solutions.
What We Offer
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Coordination among residents, community organizations, nonprofits, agencies, and recovery partners.
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Community education about contamination, testing, remediation, and safe return.
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Making local water companies aware of the PFAS settlement so that they will join the class action.
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Advocacy and coordination around FEMA and other public recovery funding that affects community health and safety.
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Support addressing school environmental health concerns, including contamination, remediation, and safe reopening issues.
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Help elevating tree safety, soil contamination, and post-fire landscape concerns with school districts and public agencies.
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Coordination with technical experts, agencies, and community partners to address environmental testing and remediation concerns.
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Help connecting local water providers and communities with information about contamination risks, settlements, and available recovery resources.
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Support escalating unresolved health and safety concerns when agencies, contractors, or institutions are not adequately responding.
FAQs
The Eaton Fire Collaborative's Health and Safety Committee is open to residents, business owners, workers, students and community organizations in Eaton Fire-impacted communities, along with county, state and federal agencies and recovery partners.
The Health and Safety Committee meets on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 1:00 PM on Zoom.
The Eaton Fire Collaborative's Health and Safety Committee works on contamination, testing and remediation, safe return home, school environmental health, tree safety and soil concerns, and water contamination, and it escalates concerns when agencies or contractors are not responding. It does not provide emergency response, medical care or direct financial assistance.