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Fire protection for home and loved ones do it yourself tips and suggested help.
Planning, building and planting for fire protection for property in wildfire zones
Don't risk fire hazard with thatched or other easily burnable material roofs. When products are fire proof they must be maintained that way.
Keep trees and high hedges at safe distance from home.
Build a swimming pool, pond or water reservoir by most fire prone border of property.
Erect protecting walls.
Let a pathway or road way run near a fire prone border or, have a strip of land there where nothing is planted or, where only low fire resistant plants and/or ground covers are used. Fire must not be able to spread from there.
Have fire stairs or built in water sprinklers and smoke detectors protect high buildings.
No buildings or structures made of easy inflammable materials should border your property.
Have at least one back door for a house.
Tools for protection and/or prevention to have handy:
Buy fire extinguishers, a leaf blower and, good hose pipes with attachments which help to distribute water efficiently.
Get fire insurance for home and garden.
Keep a rope ladder on a balcony.
In addition to fire extinguishers have containers with sand in garage and/or workshop if you like to do works and services on your car/cars and other motor vehicles yourself.
Maintenance of Home and Garden for fire protection:
When you leave trees or high hedges close to a home they should be cut and pruned that leaves can't fall onto roof and into gutters. They should also be well watered and deprived of lower branches in order to create fire ladder. Such a fire ladder prevents fire to crawl from bottom up.
Keep dry timbers, firewood and any other inflammable materials such as rubber tires, petrol cans, paints and inflammable chemicals away from borders.
Keep borders clean and tidy and have no dry leaves or burnable garden debris by a border.
Build a bricked up compost container instead which you could easier control in case of fire danger. or invest in an industrial or home compost maker, instead.
Keep fire extinguishers handy and in working condition.
Other means to prevent fire hazard:
Please, follow your gut feel as well when in any doubt...
Mind radio, TV and other announcements that warn of approaching fires.
Stay in good touch with your neighbors, please... What good is all your fire protection while he may have a dead tree by your fire prone border.
Should you own a holiday home where you cannot be often enough, anywhere in the world, please, get some help to protect against fire... A friend, a neighbor, a garden service firm or, a home administration company could assist.
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