Protect Your Home from Wildfire | Top 3 Tips

Are you inviting a wildfire to burn down your home? On this field trip episode of Elevating Health, Eric Lovgren, the Community Migitation Manager for Eagle County, has the top #3 tips you need to harden your home against wildfire, and how you and your family can be prepared for the worst should you need to evacuate.
Wildfire season is rapidly becoming year round in Colorado. Even after a summer of welcome precipitation, all it takes is one spark to start a devastating fire. As we witness fires in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington this September, and see smoke blown into Colorado from those states, it serves as a reminder that the every community, including ours, in the American West is at risk from fires.
To get an assessment of your home by Eric, visit www.realfire.net/

[@paulmaxwell8851]

Install fire sprinklers on the rooftop if you have a good water supply, backed up with a generator or water pump. That's what my wife and I are doping right now. We have a productive well, backup diesel generator, sprinklers, and permanent plumbing instead of ordinary hoses. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, which has done extensive research into this, recommends you aim to lay down one inch of precipitation per 24 hour day, which work out to only 1.0 mm per hour. That's easy to do, and turning on the sprinklers as late as one hour prior to the arrival of the fire will protect almost all structures. BUT.......follow the Fire Smart rules first! Get rid of those shrubs, door mats, clogged gutters etc.

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PAINT THE ROOF BLUE; thats the number one thing these days the D.E.W cant burn blue it looks like

[@atomicsmith]

There’s no such thing as a “wild” fire. There’s just fire. Brush fire or forest fire are better terms if you want to distinguish from a structure fire.