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How To Protect Your Home From Wildfire

caption: This small house was saved by defensible space at the Chelan Butte Fire in 2011. The property had green grass all the way around. The owner is a former Forest Service employee who knows what it means to live in fire country.
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This small house was saved by defensible space at the Chelan Butte Fire in 2011. The property had green grass all the way around. The owner is a former Forest Service employee who knows what it means to live in fire country.
Flickr Photo/Washington DNR (CC BY NC ND)

Ross Reynolds interviews Roger Faris about how to protect your home from wildfire, whether you live near a forest, in the suburbs or in the city. Faris has worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in disaster areas from Alaska to Florida, including Eastern Washington during last year’s severe wildfire season, to figure out what can be done to reduce damage from disaster.

Photo credit: "House saved by defensive space at the Chelan Butte Fire," by Washington DNR on Flickr (CC BY NC ND 2.0)

House s)ved by defensible space at the Chelan Butte Fire

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