Andrea Bustos

Andrea Bustos is a fire practitioner, a passionate geographer and has a Master’s degree in Remote Sensing. As a Prescribed Fire Training Specialist at the WRTC, Andrea’s focus is on training in prescribed fire and land management. During her career she has found that understanding landscape interactions is necessary in fire and other management strategies to reduce wildfire risk.

Andrea is an enthusiastic, self-motivated, progress-driven fire practitioner and Spanish native speaker with a developed background in fire. In recent years she has created and implemented burn plans, designed, supported, and implemented training programs, developed community prevention projects ('escuelas de campo'), environmental education programs, institutional relationship strategies, and national regulations, and managed budgets - skills she knows will bring value to WRTC, CalPBA and CAL-TREX events.

In her journey in the fire world, Andrea has found that this natural element is not only a powerful tool for land management, but also an incredible means for social assertion and defense of people and their landscapes. Right now, she works with the most inspiring professionals that share her passion for nature and all of her intricate relationships. At the WRTC she feels there is no limit to continuing to motivate, learn and share knowledge.

Andrea is pleased to support the Fire and Music project artists to travel to areas that she and José have identified in California where fire is a need and where they work from different angles to build community. From the tribal and cultural side to the individual landowner perspective, the common thread is to attract more fire to help reconnect people with resilience in their landscape.

Another aspect of the Fire and Music project that excites her is the belief that through their senses people can lose the fear of fire that is so deeply rooted in society today. She believes that knowledge of fire and its ecology through art should be exposed and shared, including with people who do not have access to this information due to language barriers.