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Wildfires are inevitable but your home burning down is not! Research shows that two things determine whether a building will burn down in a wildfire. One factor is the reduction of fuel, or vegetation, in the first 100 feet around the building. The other factor is in the details of the building’s construction. ... Defensible Space: the 100 feet around the home You can make the area around your house more resistant to fires that could set your house on fire. The most important zone is the first five feet out from the building. This zone should have nothing in it that could burn, nothing that could catch your house on fire. The zone up to 30 feet out should be like a garden or park. It can have well-spaced plants with little resin or twiggy undergrowth, watered if you have the water. Remove brush on the ground, dead litter, low-hanging tree limbsanything that could torch the canopy of your trees or parts of your house. Move firewood out of this zone. Mow and rake the grass. In the next zone -100 feet around the building- remove ladder fuels (brush, litter, lower branches); mow grass. Most sources recommend creating horizontal spacing between trees in this zone. If your house is close to a forested area or grove of larger trees, a shaded fuelbreak effect may work better. In a shaded fuelbreak, the unbroken shade of the limbed-up trees suppresses brushy growth under the trees. See the California Board of Forestry guidelines for defensible space, which includes recommendations for shaded fuelbreaks. For more on planting around your house, start with UC Extension’s well-illustrated page on plants in the home landscape. https://ucanr.edu/sites/fire/Prepare/Building/Plants/ Home Hardening: By paying attention to details of house construction, you can make your house less likely to catch on fire! Research in recent years shows us that many home ignitions are from embers landing on vulnerable parts of the home. You can make your house less vulnerable, starting with some easy and inexpensive steps. Learn about your home’s vulnerabilities and about what you can do to fix them: https://ucanr.edu/sites/fire/Prepare/Building/ **post from the Southern Humboldt Fire Safe Council

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Good morning from Familytree! #wearefamilytree Be prepared for storm conditions & snow through this week! FTS & FTR Crews will be working storm cleanup as calls come through for both PG&E related incidents and residential needs 707/984-6629

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WE DID IT AGAIN! Congratulations to Ignacio "Nacho" Diaz and James Quinliven for 10 years of service with Family Tree! Nacho & James both received framed art as tokens of our gratitude and $10,000 each towards a vacation to commemorate their respective anniversaries. ... The "10-year Sabbatical" benefit has now been awarded 7 times by Family Tree.