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The Deer Springs Fire Safe Council is an organization of private citizens that was formed to provide fire safety information and education to residents of the Deer Springs Fire Protection District. The Council is primarily funded through donations from District residents. The Council is not affiliated with nor does it receive financial support from the Deer Springs Fire Protection District

DSFSC INFORMATION HOTLINE

Up to the minute weather and fire information specific to the Deer Springs Fire District area is available 24/7. Call this number from any phone, anywhere, any time: 949-472-1407. Program your cell phone(s) while you’re thinking about it.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL RESIDENTS: EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION

Wildfire Zone

- You may now register your cell phone and email to receive emergency notifications from San Diego County. Go here for further information.

- If you (Deer Springs Fire District residents only) have not registered for our DSFSC operated reverse 9-1-1 please go here.

LOCAL WILDFIRE DANGER: HIGH

Phase I Moosa Canyon Fuel Reduction Program Begins!

On Friday May 1, work began on the Moosa Canyon Fuel Reduction Program. This program is funded by a grant from the U.S. Forestry Service and is managed by the Deer Springs Fire Safe Council which received the grant. A phase II grant application is in process. When completed, workers will have cleared and/or thinned vegetation along the rim of the canyon from Old Castle Road to Daley Ranch. This fuel management will increase the defensibility of structures along the rim of Moosa Canyon which decreases the chances of structure to structure fire propagation as was seen in the Witch Fire and, more recently, the "Freeway Complex" of fires in Orange County last year.

DSFSC President Craig Cook loads the first piece of harvested vegetation into the chipper. Labor is provided for a fee under contract to CAL FIRE using inmates from the Rainbow Conservation Camp, when available.