Claire Schlotterbeck, Hills For Everyone Executive Director attended the Orange County Coastkeeper’s fire workshop at Cal State Fullerton. She relayed what she has done to protect her own home from wildfire embers. Read the Daily Titan article.
The Champion Newspapers just printed a story on our Wildfire Study. Our consultant Melanie Schlotterbeck was interviewed for the article. In light of the recent fires, everyone should take proactive actions to make their homes safer. Consider installing ember proof vents, boxing in your eaves, getting rid of the windows in your garage door, replacing vinyl windows with metal ones (that won’t melt in a fire’s heat), etc. View the Chino Champion article.
Our wildfire study confirms what is reported here, that humans cause most fires. And, vegetation thinning doesn’t solve the problem. Additionally, “[y]ou realize, it was embers that started some of the homes on fire, and then the homes themselves generated a bunch of heat and fire that caught the neighboring homes on fire.” Read the Union Tribune article.
If you didn’t catch our quick interview on KNX 1070… here is link to the clip. Be sure to have your volume on. Listen to the KNX 1070 Interview.
In case you missed the KABC Channel 7 news interview. Here it is. We’ve made numerous recommendations in the study about ways decision makers, resource, transportation and fire agencies, as well as the public can improve the situation. Check it out! View the Channel 7 interview.