Written by Nicole Parpart, Yakima County Fire Marshal’s Office
In the Yakima Valley, cultural diversity is one of our biggest assets and cross-cultural communication can be our biggest challenge. To learn how to increase wildfire adaptation in our community, Andrea Ely and I were fortunate to attend the National Fire Academy’s six-day course “Cultural Competence in Risk Reduction”. The purpose of the course is to connect fire prevention personnel with diverse groups to increase the reach and effectiveness of fire and life safety services and programs across cultures.
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