Wildfire is Coming- Is Your Home Ready? 3 Simple Steps from CAL FIRE

Preparing for a wildfire starts with 3 simple steps: Ready, Set, Go. These steps incorporate both making your home more resistant to wildfires and ensuring that your family is ready to evacuate early and safely when wildfire happens.

Follow these 3 Simple Steps:



 1) READYBeing Ready for wildfire starts with maintaining an adequate Defensible Space and by hardening your home by using fire resistant building materials. Defensible Space is the buffer you create by removing dead plants, grass and weeds. This buffer helps to keep the fire away from your home. Hardening your home means using construction materials that can help your home withstand flying embers finding weak spots in the construction, which can result in your house catching fire.

It takes the combination of both Defensible Space and the hardening of your home to really give your house the best chance of surviving a wildfire.

To really be Ready for a wildfire, a Family Disaster Plan needs to be created. The plan should include:

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• Several different evacuation routes
• A meeting location outside the fire hazard area
• Having a Disaster Kit

2) SETAs a wildfire approaches, it is important that you get Set. Prepare yourself and your home for the possibility of having to evacuate. This means going through a checklist of items you will need to take when evacuating. And be ready to implement your Family Disaster Plan.

3) GOThis is the simplest step. Go… Evacuate early before the fire arrives. By leaving early, you give your family the best chance of surviving a wildfire, while helping firefighters by keeping roads clear of congestion, enabling them to move more freely and do their job.

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For more information visit http://www.readyforwildfire.org/