Wildland Fire Safety Information
Living With Fire - Watch the Video
What you can do to prepare your home for the fire season
5:24 minutes
From
Animated Image Shows Where Your Home is Vulnerable
to Burning Embers - From
Are We Safe From Fire? Protecting Idaho Communities
New video brings the concept of defensible space "home."
The lastest information on protecting your home - 47 minutes
Click image at left to view the entire video.
Or you can watch a particular segment of the video by clicking below:
1. Introduction to Fire
2. Introduction with Governor Otter
3. Deer Creek Subdivision
- Where the person who took the lead to push for a community defensible space program
talks about the project and how the community survived.
4. Fire Insurance
5. Firewise Home Assessment
6. Firewise Building
7. Firewise Communities
8. Fuel Ladders and Defensible Space
9. Is Your Home Defensible?
10. Understanding and Addressing Wildfire Danger
- Jack Cohen, fire researcher with the USFS, explains (with some great film footage) how embers
are created and threaten homes and how defensible space can save homes.
11. We Must Be Responsible
12. Production Partners
From The Idaho State Fire Plan Working Group (ISFPWG) To obtain a copy of the DVD, contact Ellen Bartlett at Framing Our Community: email: Ellen@framingourcommunity.org ; or phone: 208-842-2939.
With acknowlegement to Jerry Hurley - Plumas Couunty Fire Safe Couuncil Coordinator
Here is some fire safety information to help you be safer while burning and also a checklist to help you create defensible space around your home. Please be responsible and check with your local Fire Department for the permits, rules and regulations.
The documents listed below are in Adobe Acrobat format(PDF) which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader be installed on your computer. Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free from the Adobe website. [Adobe Acrobat]
Pile Burning When you are prepared for an emergency it saves lives, time and your property from destruction.
- Create defensible space.
- Identify your property by a street sign and your address marked with 4 inch tall lettering (reflectorized).
- Prepare an evacuation plan for your family and practice the fire drills. Have a contact person outside of the community to call in case you are seperated.
- Click Here for a check list to assist you in making an emergency kit.
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