Chipper Days 2016 was successful—and not as overwhelming as our 2015 event with 117 piles that took 10 days to chip. Again, we didn’t know what to expect. Due to limited funding, we limited the number of participants to 100 and the size of piles to 4’x8’ without a larger co-pay. I’m guessing that decades of fuels were removed by many people in 2015, so less remained. Or perhaps fewer people could prepare their piles, due to the record-breaking 10” of rain in October. Or maybe

Thanks go to everyone who installed one of 164 street address signposts to help emergency personnel, friends, service providers, and others find your home! These reflective, 2-sided signs are helping Mirrormont be safer and less confusing for us all. Thanks also go to Eastside Fire & Rescue volunteers led by Russ Gawler for “planting” 33 signposts. We used the entire $1000 grant that was generously awarded to us by King County Community Service Areas Grant Program. If you mis

Did you know that homeowners are responsible for maintaining access to fire hydrants? After a house in Mirrormont burned last April, I heard that firefighters had trouble hooking up the hoses to the fire hydrant serving that location because it had gotten partially buried and overgrown. They wasted valuable time digging and clearing. If it had happened during the dry season, those minutes could have been critical. This is an issue that impacts all of us in this forested commu