7 day guide to improving your home and family's wildfire preparedness with easy, inexpensive tips.
Day 5: Now that You're Ready, Get Set!
Ready, Set, Go. If you've followed days 1-4 of our Wildfire Preparedness Week step-by-step planning guide, you've now taken steps to "Ready" your home for wildfire. By creating Defensible Space, and taking steps to harden your home and maintain fire resistant landscaping, firefighters have a fighting-chance to save your home when wildfire strikes. Today we'll look at the first stage of preparation to evacuate.
Remember: The 2017 North Bay firestorm was the most destructive wildfire in US historyl ess that 20 miles from Marin. 43 people perished in the fires, most of whom were residents attempting, too late, to evacuate. In 1991, the second most destructive wildfire in US history killed 25 people in the Oakland/Berkeley Hills less than 10 miles from Marin!