As fire season begins in Southern California, debate rages about the best way to protect your house. While firefighting agencies emphasize clearing brush, other scientists studying the new fire beh…
Climate change, high temperatures and dry brush prompted Southern California fire chiefs to declare the early start of fire season on Thursday, June 9, warning homeowners to get ready for what could be an extended fire year.
“People think fires operate only by burning materials near them and if you clean out that material around a house you will be safe,” began Rick Halsey, director of the California Chaparral Institute based in northern San Diego County and a wildfire ecologist, in an interview Thursday.Halsey and others have studied fires such as the Camp Fire in November 2018 in the Sierra Nevada foothills that killed 85 people and destroyed about 19,000 homes and businesses while wiping out the town of Paradise.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department still advocates clearing brush from 30 to 100 feet out from the property — the distance depending on proximity to wild lands and other factors, said Craig Little, department spokesman. Often, homeowners become too vigilant by scraping the vegetation to the bare earth, destroying the native chaparral. That invites invasive weeds, such as mustard, that are more flammable, Halsey said., along with the Center For Biological Diversity, take issue with Cal Fire, the state fire agency, which is planning 10 million acres of vegetation thinning in mountains and desert regions as a means of fire prevention.
He said Gov. Gavin Newsom last year put $1 billion into the state budget for fire prevention, but only about $5 million of that went toward home hardening. Halsey advocates homeowner grants or low-interest loans. These practices are more common in Australia and Canada, he said. • Cover roof or attic vent openings with one-eighth inch metal mesh and use baffles to block any embers
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