63 Grants Totaling $ 950,000 Granted to Regional Fire Departments, Fire Agencies and Neighborhood Groups
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 9, 2025/ PRNewswire/– In spite of the coolest summertime in Northern and Central California in more than a years, wildfire danger stays continuous. That’s why The California Fire Structure (CFF), with assistance from the PG&E Corporation Structure (PG&E Structure), is assisting neighborhoods avoid and prepare to react to the continuous wildfire hazard. Together, they have actually granted $ 950,000 in wildfire security grants to 63 regional fire departments, fire firms and non-profit groups mainly in Northern and Central California
This is the 8th year CFF and the PG&E Structure have actually partnered to award grants to assist neighborhoods boost their catastrophe readiness and action programs. This year, the PG&E Structure devoted an extra $ 200,000 to improve the grant program and supply more neighborhood financing.
CFF evaluated over 190 submissions throughout a month-long application window and dispersed the yearly wildfire security grants to firms in high wildfire-risk locations. The grant awards come throughout National Readiness Month, observed each September to raise awareness of getting ready for catastrophes and emergency situations.
The grants will be utilized to acquire individual protective and customized devices for firemens, total defensible area and greenery management work, decrease fuels and risks, and carry out fire security public education and outreach. See the list of grant receivers.
The PG&E Structure and Pacific Gas and Electric Business (PG&E) support CFF’s more comprehensive 2025 Wildfire Security and Readiness Program (WSPP) with $ 1.65 million in charitable financing. The program works to raise awareness about wildfire security throughout California and provide resources to underserved neighborhoods in high fire-risk locations. The grants to regional companies are a core part of the WSPP, financing likewise supports CFF’s public security education and outreach multimedia project in a range of languages.
” This time of year is crucial for the California Fire Structure as we examine WSPP grant applications from fire departments, firms, and nonprofits. Each application strengthens the immediate requirement for resources to assist alleviate wildfire danger,” stated Brian K. Rice, Chair of the California Fire Structure. “The WSPP program is a lifeline for much of our firemens, and it would not be possible without the assistance of PG&E. With dry spell conditions, warmer temperature levels, and drier months ahead, the hazard of wildfire stays genuine. These grants permit us to gear up regional firms with financing for greenery management, fuel decrease, customized devices, neighborhood outreach, and necessary protective equipment.”
Considering That 2018, 431 beneficiaries that consist of fire departments and fire firms statewide have actually gotten $ 5.5 million in direct financing through the grant program as part of WSPP, and each year the program gets more applications than the previous year. Financing targets particular neighborhoods recognized as having severe or raised fire danger by the California Public Utilities Commission High Fire-Threat District map.
” PG&E has the benefit of serving 16 million individuals every day who reside in 48 counties and 246 cities and towns in Northern and Central California,” stated Sumeet Singh, EVP, Operations and Chief Operating Officer. “As the danger of wildfire continues to grow, collaborations like the one with the California Fire Structure are crucial for securing the home towns where our buddies, households and next-door neighbors live and work. By making homes and services fire-safe, by supplying firemens with the tools and devices they require, by raising awareness of how all of us can avoid wildfires– we are really making everybody and whatever more secure.”
The WSPP concentrates on 2 crucial locations to assist keep neighborhoods safe:
- A wildfire security project that includes fire security education, established by CFF, in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Hmong to promote early evacuation throughout fires. The WSPP has actually worked vigilantly to get rid of language barriers by establishing and dispersing in-language fire-safety messaging. This project consists of marketing on radio, tv and digital advertisements, in addition to outside signboards in high fire-threat locations.
- A grant program administered by the CFF through an application procedure. The CFF awards grants to recipient fire departments, firms and neighborhood groups in assistance of jobs and programs concentrating on wildfire/disaster avoidance, readiness and/or relief and healing support.
How the WSPP Assists Neighborhoods
Grant financing this year supports jobs expected to have the following effect:
- Over 1,000 pieces of individual defense devices such as helmets, boots, gloves, safety glasses, and fire shelters.
- Fuel reductions/vegetation management
- Several acres of dangerous tree and brush elimination
- Countless pounds of tree limbs, branches and other combustibles cracking and carrying
- Several recommended fires or stack burns
Fire security education offered throughout 12 counties possibly benefiting over 1.4 million locals. - Over 1,000 pieces of customized devices consisting of water tank, boom boxes, headlamps, hoses/clamps/nozzles, chainsaws and equipment packs
- Overall Approximated Effect: 1,269,224 Citizens
There were 196 applications and $ 4.29 M in moneying demands sent from firms in California throughout the 2025 wildfire security grant application duration.
PG&E and the PG&E Structure have actually offered $ 10.45 million in overall assistance for fire security awareness through the WSPP given that the collaboration started, with over half the financing supporting community-based grants. The charitable contribution is shareholder-funded, not spent for by PG&E clients.
The CFF’s Firemens in your corner program, likewise supported by PG&E, supplies multilingual, culturally appropriate fire security messaging in both digital and print type, to help the general public in remaining safe.
About The PG&E Corporation Structure
The PG&E Corporation Structure is an independent 501( c)( 3) not-for-profit company, different from PG&E and sponsored by PG&E Corporation.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Business, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation PCG, is a combined gas and electrical energy serving more than 16 million individuals throughout 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California To find out more, check out pge.com and pge.com/news.
About California Fire Structure
The California Fire Structure, a non-profit 501 (c)( 3) company, supplies psychological and monetary support to households of fallen firemens, firemens and the neighborhoods they safeguard. Formed in 1987 by California Specialist Firemens, the California Fire Structure’s required consists of a variety of survivor and victim support jobs and neighborhood efforts. cafirefoundation.org
SOURCE PG&E Corporation