Check out the National Fire Protection Association web site for home, car and recreation fire safety as well as detailed Firewise information on ways to make your house and property wildfire resistant.

Consider a spring safety check of your grill.  According to FEMA statistics, 79% of residential grill fires are caused by operating gas-fueled grills.  Causes range from equipment malfunction to leaving the grill unattended.

Exercise care when working in your yard, power tools such as lawn mowers and weed trimmers , carelessly discarded smoking materials, and parking vehicles off a hard-scape pad can all start fires.  This March, someone welding outdoors ignited a 2,000 acre prairie grass fire in Wellington County.  According to Cal Fire statistics, in 2015, equipment use caused 7% and vehicles 8% of wildland fires in California.   In 2015, an Oregon wildfire that burned 26,000 acres started with a lawnmower.

Mitigation work you do on your property counts toward maintaining Firewise certification.  Please let the HOA know by sending a short email to the HOA with the type of activity,  time spent and dollars spent if any.  Thank you for helping us to maintain this certification!