On Wednesday (May 7), various California fire agencies gathered for a fiery demonstration to show the importance of fireproofing homes as part of Wildfire Preparedness Week. Firefighting personnel said they are preparing for another potentially dangerous wildfire season after the Eaton and Palisades fires that destroyed thousands of properties. - REUTERS
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00:00we've learned a lot from the loss here in California and one of those things
00:16that we've learned is that wildfire mitigations home hardening combined
00:20with defensible space in particular that first five feet around the home
00:23makes a huge difference a home that is built to today's standards with
00:27defensible space has a significantly higher chance of surviving a wildfire
00:41the wildland fires are not going away and they're not how do we make sure that
00:46when the embers come into the suburbs they're not lighting our neighborhoods
00:49on fire this is the critical pieces of wildfire prepared home having the class
00:54a roof having the vents having the six inches at the bottom and that really
00:59important defensible space makes it so much less likely that that home is going
01:05to ignite and then threaten the rest of the neighborhood
01:08so if we didn't have
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