How California can get ahead of wildfires, with Steve Frisch

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Our guest today is Steve Frisch, President and CEO of the Sierra Business Council (SBC) and a founding member of the Wildfire Solutions Coalition. With the devastating impacts of wildfire becoming more evident with each fire season, the Coalition advocates for funding and implementation of wildfire resilience strategies. While acknowledging California’s budget woes, he argues that preventing fires will save the state money, and that “this is not the year we should be reducing wildfire funding.”

3:17 Steve Frisch

5:42 About the Wildfire Solutions Coalition

8:50 Getting past partisanship in wildfire policy

12:33 Funding challenges

16:16 “This is not the year we should be reducing wildfire funding”

16:52 Insurance

18:32 From San Francisco kitchens to Truckee NGO

25:06 Hidden gems in Truckee

27:17 Who Had the Worst Week in California Politics?