Rebuild:LA Episode 028 - Saving Whole Neighborhoods from Wildfire with Fire Aside's Jason Brooks

In this week’s Episode host Cameron Barrett interviews software developer Jason Brooks who took his experience surviving the Tubbs Fire that destroyed Santa Rose in 2017, as inspiration to design an app that has helped more than a million people make their homes safer from wildfire. Brooks’ app, Fire Aside, is now being used by dozens of municipalities in more than half a dozen states to streamline brush inspections, home hardening and defensible space education and fire prevention efforts. Hear how the app works, and how even Fire Safe Councils and Homeowners’ Associations are leveraging Fire Aside in the fight against wildfires.

Resources:

• Fire Aside
• Chipper Days
• Marin County's Close Call

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:04 Creating Fire Aside
• 6:08 Changing Behavior Through Disaster
• 9:50 Visual Learning
• 10:30 B to G to C
• 13:45 Customizing for Communities
• 17:40 Reports for Individual Homeowners
• 20:50 Could Fire Aside Have Saved Homes in Pacific Palisades and Altadena?
• 24:50 Fire Departments Can't Do It All
• 26:30 Can Consumers Get Fire Aside?
• 27:40 Marin County" Close Call
• 29:30 Fire Aside's Future Development
• 31:45 Wildfires Are Not Unique to California
• 35:00 Chipper Days!