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Coastkeeper Workshop

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on September 20, 2019 with No Comments

Our friends at Orange County Coastkeeper are committed to building climate resilient communities and ecosystems. Coastkeeper is hosting a workshop to teach you how to protect your home by creating a defensible landscape that is less likely to ignite. We will highlight simple steps to fire management including the how to’s on creating a defensible space around your home with landscaping elements and techniques. This event is FREE and no registration is required.

Esperanza Hills — “The Experiment”

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on September 6, 2019 with No Comments

Raise your hand if you would like to be an experiment for Orange County Fire Authority to test out your life and home in a raging wildfire. What kind of non-sense is this? Read the OC Register article.

Home Hardening Tips

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on May 2, 2019 with No Comments

There are quite a few helpful tips for homeowners on how to harden your home, including suggestions on: roof tops, windows, vegetation, gutters, decks, chimneys, fencing, etc. Brush clearance helps, but hardening your home provides fewer places for embers to intrude and catch your home on fire. “The state is trying to pull away from the term ‘brush clearance’ and change the mind-set,” says Assistant Chief J. Lopez. “Clearing brush is going to help, but that puts the blame on … Read More

Wildlands & Wildfire Workshop

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on February 21, 2019 with No Comments

Today we were at the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) focusing on a study of wildfire, water, wildlands, and policy. The study being worked on is just at the beginning and will take a few years to complete. We will keep you posted how it impacts and influences the Wildlife Corridor.

KCET Interview to Air 1/15

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on January 12, 2019 with No Comments

We continue to work with Yorba Linda residents from Protect Our Homes and Hills on the Esperanza Hills project. Hills For Everyone consultant Melanie Schlotterbeck was recently interviewed for a KCET-TV program. It is scheduled to air on Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 8:00 PM on KCET-TV’s program SoCal Connected. Watch for it!