In the Spotlight
Wildfire Safety: Take Responsibility...Protect your Home!
A combination of overgrown vegetation makes for a highly combustible environment, and potentially catastrophic results from wildfires.
Protecting people, property, and resources from wildfires is a challenge in any State. An unusual set of factors make doing this in California even more difficult and complex:
- 38 million people
- 2,309 identified communities at risk
- increasing development in the wildlands
- unusual and ever-changing weather conditions, including droughts and "Santa Ana winds"
California's Federal, State, and local wildland firefighting agencies have formed partnerships to fight fires, and together with local communities, to prevent or lessen fire danger.
Helping Californians " Take Responsibility " for fire safety is the theme of a new 2009 public education campaign. The aim of the publicity campaign is to encourage Californians to protect their homes from wildfires by creating defensible space.
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