Wildfire resource guide: Here’s steps that experts say you can take to better prepare your home and protect your family before a wildfire ignites.
Here’s how experts stay you can prepare before disaster strikes.On the hills north of the Capitol, a July wildfire forced the evacuation of about 40 homes as flames quickly spread within a half-mile of a Salt Lake City neighborhood.
“What you’re doing is you’re creating an area where the fire can’t have direct access to get to your home,” Hunt said.Make sure there are no combustibles in the area, such as firewood piles and dried grass. Make a point to clear rain gutters of dried-up leaves, too. Even the smallest fuels can accelerate into a large fire.Considering planting flowers or other low-growing plants widely apart — at least two times their full-grown height.
“In advance, write down a list of all the things in your home that you want to take with you in the event of an evacuation,” said Wade Mathews, a spokesperson emergency management division. But there are many ways you could be alerted about crucial information in an emergency, depending on the size and location of the threat, Mathews said.
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