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Protecting your home from wind-driven wildland fires

"Protecting your home from wind-driven wildland fires using landscaping, vegetation, and home maintenance." That's the name of the latest version of my e-book. It has 25 pages and over 125 photographs.

I wrote it after some Texas prairie fires many, many years ago and updated it after the 1988 Yellowstone fires, the 1991 Oakland Hills fires, and the Southern California wildland fires of October 2003 and October 2007.

If you or someone you know lives in an area subject to wildland fires (and that's about 90% of America), please help me distribute it to your family, friends, and business associates.

We can be proactive in using landscaping, vegetation, and regular and easy home maintenance to provide the initial protection for our own homes which then makes it much easier for fire fighters to protect our homes if we are forced to evacuate.

You can download a free copy at
http://www.abouthomes.info/rr/Protecting%20your%20home.pdf.

It's a large file (3.6 MB), so be patient while it downloads, especially if you're on dial-up or other slow Internet speeds.

Please distribute it far and wide , with my Christmas/Holiday/End-of-Year/Kwanzaa/New Year blessings.

Posted by Russel Ray, San Diego home inspector on 12/22/2007 10:46 AM

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4 Comments on Protecting your home from wind-driven wildland fires

JUL

Russel - I just came across this posting of your's from December. It was excellent advice. Especially in light of what California has experiencied these past weeks.

Hey, Myrl.

Please download it and pass it around. Send the email link to your family, friends, Clients, business associates, and anyone else.

I've lost two homes to wildfires, both shared vacation homes owned with business partners.

The government can try its best to help us during firestorms (and other natural disasters), but we can do so much more to help ourselves, and the government, if we'll simply educate ourselves.

I'm not real familiar with how to get this information out to a wider audience here at Active Rain, so if you have suggestions, I'm all ears. Thanks.