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Community Risk Reduction - What is it?

Community Risk Reduction (CRR) is a process to identify and prioritize local risks, followed by the integrated and strategic investment of resources (emergency response and prevention) to reduce their occurrence and impact.

Community Risk Reduction Assessment and Planning Guides

Maine State/County Community Risk Assessment

Vision 20/20 Community Risk Assessment Guide

Vision 20/20 Community Risk Reduction Planning Guide

Vision 20/20 Outcome Measures Guide

NFPA 1300: Standard on Community Risk Assessment and Community Risk Reduction Plan Development

NFPA: Guide for Training Fire Service Personnel to Conduct Community Risk Reduction for Residential Occupancies

Risk Management - FEMA

CRR Radio (Vision 20/20 - discussions/interviews with CRR leaders across the nation)

Events

Kent Nelson (right), Maine Forestry, and Richard Taylor (left), Office of the Maine State Fire Marshal do a presentation on Community Risk Reduction and Maine's Community Risk Reduction Collaborative at the Maine Municipal Association's Annual Convention on October 3, 2024. The event was held at the Augusta Civic Center.

Special Topics Information

Safer, Stronger, Smarter: A Guide to Improving School Natural Hazard Safety FEMA P-1000/June 2017

Fire-Community Assessment/Response Evaluation System (FIRECARES) is an online tool that uses large sets of data from various sources to provide fire services and community leaders with information about fire response and risk analysis for their communities. It was funded by FEMA AFG and launched in April 2017: https://firecares.org/

United States Dept. of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health and Administration (OSHA)/ Safety and Health Topics/ Asbestos

National Cancer Institute information on asbestos