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Santa Barbara City Fire Department Battalion Chief John Ahlman Retired, recalls more than four decades service with three different fire departments

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Santa Barbara County Retired Fire Marshall Rob Hazard talks about Fire on the Urban side of the WUI

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Dr. D'Antonio,professor and researcher at UC Santa Barbara returns to drill down into the difference between  plant communities and their response to wild land fire and how we best protect life and environment within them.

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 Max A. Moritz, Ph.D.  Wildfire Specialist at U.C. Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources and Adjunct Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science joins us to discuss how, many factors are responsible for the way wildfires move through various environments. Plant community, weather, building construction, topography, fuel reduction and many other factors contribute to the spread of wildfire and all need to be considered for effective control and containment. 

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Nic Elmquist is the Wildland Fire Specialist at the Montecito Fire District.   Nic is a member of an Incident Management Team and travels extensively around the West as he is assigned to different campaign fires. In this edition of Surviving Disaster one of the things he explains is the Incident Command System and its benefits 

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In this episode of Surviving Disaster we are joined by Carla D'Antonio PHD, Professor of Ecology in Environmental Studies at UCSB. We are broadly discussing  the controlled impacts of fire on the chaparral and the people who choose to share it.

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Ted and Rob discuss wildfire behavior, defensible space zones, home hardening

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Bendy White, a well known and respected member of the community in Santa Barbara talks with us about his family's relationship with fire and chaparral since their purchase of some acreage above Mountain Drive in the 20's
He talks about the formation and founders of the Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council in the 1990's and the concept of bringing home owners and the emergency service personnel together to make wildfire suppression a safer and more successful ordeal for everyone by organizing and educating community members was new and controversial. A very interesting and informative hour.

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Gary Warkentin Chief Administrative Officer for Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Department joins us for a broad discussion of his history, work, direction and aspiration in his position

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Ray Ford,  teacher, back country expert, author, photographer and journalist shares his life through the 70s forward 

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