BOISE, Idaho — Nearly a decade after the Table Rock Fire scorched more than 2,000 acres in the Boise foothills, one neighborhood has been working for years to prevent a wildfire tragedy.
Warm Springs Mesa, situated on a hillside where fire risk is high, is home to the MESA program, an acronym for Mesa Emergency Safety Actions.
The program began after the 2016 fire, which was caused by fireworks and quickly spread through dry, invasive grasses…