Work together

12/13/2021 (Permalink)

Even the most well-prepared home is in serious jeopardy in the event that neighboring houses ignite. If you live in a densely populated area, your home is ultimately only as fire-proof as your neighborhood’s weakest links. “Some people are closer than 100 feet to the next neighbor, and you don’t necessarily have control over that,” Steinberg says. “In that case, the stuff in my yard or in my house is gonna affect whether or not your house ignites.”

Community-organized fire preparation can thus be as important as what you do on your own property. The U.S. Forest Service has a program that helps build "fire-adapted communitites and more than 1,400 sites nationwide have implemented community-level wildfire action plans under NFPA's Firewise recognition program

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/5-ways-protect-your-home-wildfires

SERVPRO of Grand Prairie  is here for all of your restoration needs.