• Wildfires are expected to grow in frequency and intensity as our climate changes
• The local fire departments do not have enough resources to put a fire engine in every driveway during a big fire.
• As a community, we need to become adapted to wildfire so that we and our homes can survive it. See fireadapted.org.  and www.firewise.org.
• It’s usually not the big flames that start house fires, but rather the windstorm of hot embers ahead of the fire. It is critical that you don’t have combustible materials waiting to accept this “snowstorm” of embers that come with a large wildfire.
• Success is a survivable space around your home. http://firewise.org/wildfire-preparedness/be-firewise/home-and-landscape/defensible-space.aspx?sso=0
• Success is a non-combustible class A roof
• Success is eliminating fuel sources next to your home like wood decks, wood fences, combustible door mats, accumulated leaves or brush.
• Success requires annual maintenance of your home and landscape
• The fires will continue, we need to adapt our yards and homes to not be threatened by wildfire.