Fire Protection

The Galena Country Estates chapter consists of 248 homes two miles up the Mt. Rose Highway. Nevada Division of Forestry is encouraging membership in Firewise USA to create a ditch maintenance program to reduce flammable materials within drainages, plant fire resistant landscaping along the Mt. Rose Highway and achieve fuel reduction improvements in common areas.

Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District (TMFPD)

https://tmfpd.us

The Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District (TMFPD) was established in 1972, and at the time, TMFPD covered and protected 550 square miles. They have now expanded their reach to over 6,000 square miles across Northern Nevada. They serve the unincorporated areas of Washoe County which includes the areas not governed by its own local municipal corporations.  More history at:  https://tmfpd.us/our-history/

Wildlands Fuel Reduction

FUELS MODULE – A recent addition to TMFPD’s hazardous fuels management program is the “Fuels Module”. TMFPD in conjunction with NV Energy have put together staffing for these fuels focused resource and will work together to create more resources like it. The module is a versatile and highly experienced group of individuals whose careers have been focused on wildland fire and fuels management.

• 25 GCE homeowners on north side of the GCE subdivision will have Truckee Meadows Fire PD (TMFPD) via Nevada Energy Grant reduce brush in back properties in Fall 2021.

Firewise USA Participant

Residents Reducing Wildfire Risks

In Summer of 2021, Galena Country Estates (GCE) met minimum requirements to become a member of Firewise USA so GCE can get help through grants or services by making an effort to educate homeowners about wildfires.  Embers are the big threat.  If you missed the handouts delivered to homes by our committee, contact GCE.Firewise@gmail.com.   Cynthia Reed is our Firewise Coordinator.

Our 2021 Action Plan

• Education by Webinars on Living with Fire https://www.livingwithfire.com/

• See GCE on https://www.nfpa.org

• Reduce brush around us.

  • 25 GCE homeowners will have Truckee Meadows Fire PD (TMFPD) via Nevada Energy Grant reduce brush in back properties.

  • Homeowners report how many hours they work or pay others to reduce fuels in yard and around hydrants to GCE Coordinator by Dec. 2021. Contact coordinator at Firewise@gmail.com for worksheet.

  • Paint address numbers on properties near mailboxes.

  • Workorders requested with Washoe County to clean eastside Sewer Easement and thin brush bordering GCE properties on eastside of Whites Creek Park.

• Education by Webinars on Living with Fire https://www.livingwithfire.com/

TMFPD (tmfpd.us) has drop-off sites for Green Waste in fall and spring.  Firewise USA encourages neighbors to help neighbors.  Ex:  Trailers.  Need help or offer help, contact coordinator: GCE.Firewise@gmail.com

gree·  ·  ·  ·  PREPARE DEFENSIBLE SPACE – LOCATIONS FOR TRUCKEE MEADOWS FIRE & RESCUE GREEN WASTE COLLECTION, AUTUMN 2021.

Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue’s (TMFR) Green Waste Collection Days offer the best alternative to create defensible space. Green waste collection allows residents to dispose of their dry and dead vegetation, shrubs, tree branches, and other wildland fuels to encourage the creation of defensible space to protect homes and property from wildfires.

This is a free event sponsored by the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District for all Washoe County residents, with support from NV Energy, Nevada Division of Forestry, Living With Fire (UNR Cooperative Extension), and Fire Adapted Nevada.

Green Waste Collection will take place beginning at 9am until 4pm, weather permitting at the following locations (check the website at TMFPD.com prior to the event to ensure it has not been canceled due to weather conditions or a Red Flag Warning):   Fall 2021 Schedule

• October 9 & 10: Washoe Valley Nevada Division of Forestry Fire Station, 885 Eastlake Blvd, Washoe Valley

• October 17: Virginia Highlands Corner of Toll Road and Geiger Grade

• October 23: Caughlin Ranch / Mogul Mayberry Park, 101 Woodland Avenue, Reno

• October 24: Verdi Crystal Peak Park, 561 Crystal Peak Rd, Verdi

• November 6 & 7: North Valleys (two Locations) Silver Lake Station, 11525 Red Rock Road, Reno Lemmon Valley Station: 130 Nectar Street, Reno

• November 13: Palomino Valley Ironwood Equestrian Center, 5600 Whiskey Springs Road, Palomino Valley

• November 14: Spanish Springs Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Way, Sparks

• December 4 & 5: Washoe Valley (repeat) Nevada Division of Forestry Fire Station, 885 Eastlake Blvd, Washoe Valley

Examples of accepted items include junipers, pines, rabbitbrush, sagebrush, and other woody vegetation. ONLY natural vegetation, please. Items we will NOT accept include household garbage and trash, lumber, hazardous materials, grass clippings, dirt and gravel, and stumps with root balls. Tree stumps in excess of 8 inches in diameter will not be accepted. Additionally, we cannot accept items in bags. Bags must be emptied on-site and removed. Commercial waste will NOT be accepted from contractors or landscape companies. Please do not dispose of waste outside of assigned hours. Discarding waste outside of operating hours will be considered illegal dumping. Please dispose of items during working hours. Fire restrictions remain in place in the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District. As a reminder, open (pile) burning is prohibited. All outdoor recreational and cooking fires are prohibited except for the residential use of propane, electric, and pellet-fueled barbeques. All other recreational appliances including charcoal briquettes and any outdoor wood fires are restricted. This includes campfires

GCE November/May Community Clean-Up

Homeowners are responsible for keeping properties, ditches, and dirt roads cleared of debris to prevent fires and keep our neighborhood looking grand. 

You can set 6 bags/trash cans of brush out with no yellow stickers (free) for Waste Management (WM) (wm.com) to pick-up during 4 weeks in November/May.  You also have a packet of yellow stickers to place on up to 6 bags at other times when you have more trash than the green trash can hold.

Waste Management also allows you to dump any type of waste for FREE at the Sage Street Transfer Station 1390 E. Commercial Row, Reno, NV 89512, four times a year.  Just show your WM Statement plus ID, keep load under 3 cubic yards at a time.  Open Monday-Friday 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

GALENA COUNTRY ESTATES

HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION

APRIL 1, 2007

Each lot owner shall be responsible for the maintenance of private drainage facilities and the natural drainage characteristics within their lot so other properties are not adversely affected. A blanket easement is hereby granted within each lot to the affected property as may be necessary for the perpetuation of the natural drainage characteristics and improved drainage facilities.

Drainage facilities outside the dedicated right-of-way to be maintained by the homeowners, unless they are in a minimum 15-foot wide drainage easement and piped with concrete pipe

No owner or tenant shall obstruct a drainage channel within a tract in a fashion, which creates a danger to or causes damages on the property of any other person within the tract.