Defensible Space
Home design and retrofitting techniques for wildfire defense
California Fire Science Consortium In the 2017 fires, homes were the most combustible part of the landscape (frequently trees in the yard survived the fire, but the home burned). Embers come in two forms, vegetation and construction material fragments. What can be controlled in a fire? Fuel arrangement and availability. Defensible space includes zones, 1= …
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Sign Up For Nixle or Mendo Alerts
Lauren Robertson – Pine Mountain Firesafe Council I answered the public info line for CAL FIRE for 2 days. What stood out: more than 80% of the people who called had not signed up for Nixle or Mendo Alerts with the Mendo Sheriff. To sign up on a cell phone, text your postal code (or …