CalFire is giving nearly $16 million in fire prevention grants to local fire departments and fire safe councils to reduce the threat of large wildfires.

The 2016-17 State Responsibility Area Fire Prevention Fund and tree mortality grants are aimed at reducing the threat wildfires as well as dead and dying trees in and around communities within the State Responsibility Area, which includes the Lake Valley area.

These grants have a one-time appropriation of $10 million that is intended to address the risk and potential impact of wildfire and dead and dying trees on habitable structures in the SRA. The grants also provide a one-time allocation of $6 million for fire prevention projects that are not limited to the SRA.

Applications are due Sept. 28. Details are online.