In a precautionary effort to try and prevent wildfires this coming Summer, local residents are being asked to deliver possible fire-igniting material to collection sites.

Community Biomass Collection Sites are accepting dry vegetative waste. Residents throughout the Truckee Meadows are being urged to create defensible spaces this spring for protection against wildfires.

The collection sites will help residents remove dead and dying fuels from around their properties and then safely dispose of the combustible vegetation. 

 The collection effort began this month and will go on through June 30, 2012.

 Below is the list of locations:

North Valleys

11525 Red Rock Road
Silver Lake Fire Station

Spanish Springs

470 Rockwell Blvd
South Reno

Virginia Foothills

East end of Kenneth Drive
Washoe Valley

Truckee Meadows Fire

Station #16
1240 Eastlake Blvd.

Accepted items for collection include:  Trees, tree branches, all brush, weeds, dead Trees, tree bark, old firewood

Items that will NOT be accepted include:  Sod, lawn clippings, manure, hay, dimensional lumber, commercial waste, trash, or rocks.