HOME HARDENING

A short summary of how to make your home more resistant to a wildfire from the California Fire Safe Council is excellent.

Best How-To guide for hardening your home from the Tahoe Network of Fire Adapted Communities. Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide: How to Harden Homes for Wildfire. They also have three recordings of workshops that explain and teach this material:

• Wildfire Home Retrofit Workshop: Public

• Wildfire Home Retrofit Workshop: Building Professionals

• Wildfire Home Retrofit Workshop: Fire Professionals and Educators

What to do NOW to harden your home:

• Store your flammable or combustible liquids properly. Here’s how.

• Get all vent openings to your home replaced with fire resale vents and get gutter guards. ABC Supply will give a discount if you ask them.

• Get an automatic gas shutoff valve

• A portable Fireproof safe could be helpful

• Get an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) for power outages.

• Get a weather alert Radio: any brand will do, but it must have NOAA info and a “Public Alert” function.

  • Midland brand

  • Eton Brand