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FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | JULY 2021 23 The Ad Hoc Power Out Committee has completed the project we were created to do. Hopefully you have seen our articles in the Daily Report and the Breeze. We tried to provide information that will make power outages a little easier to cope with. Southern California Edison has provided some information in their statements and on their website. While this information is valuable, we hope that the Ad Hoc Power Out provided information that is better targeted to our community. If our collection of articles gathered into a single booklet has not been distributed, it will be shortly. Look for an announcement in the Daily Report telling you where and how you can get a copy. ~ Steve Cooley, cooleyaudit@gmail.com Ad Hoc Power Out Committee Homeowner Insurance Problem If you or your neighbors are having trouble getting, or have been denied homeowner insurance because you are told you live in a "high-fire threat area," you might want to look at the following website: https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/firemap/ This is a map of the high-fire threat areas within the state of California. It is a result of 12 years of studies and meetings between the CA Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), CA Office of Emergency Services (OES), Cal Fire, and many other California stakeholders. All areas of wildfire prevention and mitigation were addressed as well as utility infrastructure throughout the state. As a result of the studies and meetings, the CPUC has passed 70 resolutions, and the State Legislature has passed two Senate bills and one Assembly bill to address wildfire issues and develop the map. The map has an address search feature whereby you can put in your address (then hit enter or return) and your address will be "pinned" on the map. In our case, living in Four Seasons, you will immediately see that, with the exception of the fringe areas, we are definitely NOT in the designated high-fire threat area as defined by the state of California even though some insurance companies are ignoring this fact. Although this addresses the insurance questions, you might also ask the question of why Four Seasons is subject to the mandates and protocols of the Public Power Shutoff Program. The answer is that the electrical circuits that feed Four Seasons transverse though undeveloped high fire threat areas and if they are de-energized, we are affected by the outage. ~ Mike Martin, docmartin8310@gmail. com Emergency Preparedness Committee

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