Spring is almost upon us and with the low snowfall this year, Is your home prepared for fire season?
What steps have you taken to ensure that you and your home could survive a wild land fire?
Is your firewood conveniently stacked under your deck?
Are those tree limbs touching the roof?
Do you plan to get out and rake those pine needles away from the house?
Do you have contact numbers for your immediate neighbors in case a fire should occur with you away from your home?
Do you have an ER plan?
Would it be helpful to put together a team of folks that could help you with these issues?
Just a few questions to start the dialog as fire season approached.
All of the above. Still to early to rake the needles again. Too much snow on the ground yet and it seems every time I rake we get hit with a wind storm and it knocks more down. I only have about 2 weeks worth of wood under the deck. The rest was stacked away when Nymisis dropped off a load 2 months ago. I'll keep the trees the way they are. There are no ladder fuels too close. If it crowns, we're done for anyway.
Last two years we video taped all the stuff we prolly would not be able to take with us in a bug-out situation (model and serial numbers). We packed up all out financial stuff, pictures and personal non-replaceable items and put them in fire proof storage in Evergreen for the entire summer. Will most likely do the same again this summer.
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Last two years we video taped all the stuff we prolly would not be able to take with us in a bug-out situation (model and serial numbers). We packed up all out financial stuff, pictures and personal non-replaceable items and put them in fire proof storage in Evergreen for the entire summer. Will most likely do the same again this summer.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
frogger wrote: Spring is almost upon us and with the low snowfall this year, Is your home prepared for fire season?
Being as ready as you can be for wild fire season is never a bad idea. Having a chance to compare notes with others is even better, never skip a chance to talk to people who have suffered losses from wild fires. People that have lost it all and come back through the recover process know a lot and they have insight on issues that won't likely occur to others that have not had the same experience.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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frogger wrote: Spring is almost upon us and with the low snowfall this year, Is your home prepared for fire season?
Being as ready as you can be for wild fire season is never a bad idea. Having a chance to compare notes with others is even better, never skip a chance to talk to people who have suffered losses from wild fires. People that have lost it all and come back through the recover process know a lot and they have insight on issues that won't likely occur to others that have not had the same experience.
Don't know how much is on line but we saw this exhibit last summer.
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Share your Stories
LIVING WITH WILDFIRE
Recording a community’s experience
Our new exhibit, Living withWildfire: A Shared Community Experience, is capturing personal stories of wildfire so that you can understand the tremendous effect a wildfire has on a community, its people, and the environment.
Good link BB. The reason for the early post os that many believe fire season is coming sooner than we think. The LNFF (Lower North Fork Fire) is a few weeks from a 1 year anniversary.
Our neighbors are still trying to rebuild their lives and will be for some time.
Their lives will never be the same. Some of our neighbors will no longer say hello or offer us a smile.
Driving out of the neighborhood, Foster convinced himself the fire would just scoot by. My house will be OK, he thought. My friends will be OK.
But, behind him, three of his friends were dying in what would come to be called the Lower North Fork fire. His neighbors' houses were burning. Soon, his would be too.
This was unimaginable just two hours before, when he drove into the valley below his house to investigate a small fire that the firefighter on scene insisted was manageable. Back at home, Foster told his wife not to worry.
"There was a sense of denial," he said. "I said, 'Honey, I was down there. There were crews arriving. It's going to be OK.'
This year, as the last several, we are putting some "irreplaceables" in storage in the flats for the summer/fall. The rental cost exceeds the value of what we're storing: photos, watercolors my grandmother painted before she and my grandfather married (early 1900's), etc. Would our life go on without these things? Of course. But if I can save items of my heart I will.
