![]() Install smoke detectors on every floor and in every bedroom, test often, change battery yearly in spring.If you own a fire pump, contact the Fallen Leaf Fire Department to help you maintain it and to show you how to use it properly. Ensure a firefighting water supply of at least 2,500 gallons.Install a protective metal cover over your propane regulator to keep snow out.Ensure house main electrical panel is fused correctly, and that fuses are not overloaded or bridged.Store gasoline only in approved, labeled, metal containers away from occupied buildings.Dispose of BBQ or fireplace ashes only after soaking them for 24 hours in a covered metal pail with water.Identify an out of area contact family members can call in case your family gets separated. Keep valuables you might carry away in easily accessible areas. Know where your closest safety zones are and how to get there on foot if you are warned by an emergency vehicles public address system to evacuate NOW. Re-read and post the Fallen Leaf Evacuation Plan in your home (evacuation plan on reverse of this checklist). Practice wildfire evacuation scenarios with your family.of space on both sides of the road and 15 ft. wide roadway path for fire vehicles with turnouts and turnarounds. Keep fire tools close by: a ladder long enough to reach the roof, shovel, rake, and bucket.Install a garden hose bib and have a hose connected at all times with a spray nozzle attached.If burning, get a permit from the Fallen Leaf Fire Dept. Burn brush piles before 15th of June every year.When removing trees, leave less abundant varieties. USFS Permitees can remove live or dead trees smaller than 6” in diameter, but need permission from USFS Special Uses to cut trees of greater size. The FLFD can mark larger trees and provide a permit for removal, if they pose a fire hazard. crown spacing (private property owners can cut any live trees less than 14” in diameter and any dead tree under 30” in diameter without a permit. from the ground or 1/3 tree height and within 10 ft. of any chimney and screen chimney with 1/4” metal mesh. Remove flammable brush to below 18” high or provide clear space around it 2 times the brush height (Flammable brush includes Greenleaf Manzanita and Huckleberry Oak) Non-Flammable plants to remain are Currant, Willow, Alder, Squaw Carpet (Remove all dead branches & twigs in these).(Store ALL wood and lumber in this one place). of any structure this is on the ground or in all trees and in or under any brush. ![]() once every spring before mid-June, and ALL DEAD material within 100 ft. ![]() ![]() (Includes all brush, non-irrigated plants, pine needles, dead limbs, firewood, lumber, shutters, and stuff under decks). Remove ALL combustible material within 5 ft.Cover roof, attic and basement vents with _” metal mesh.Maintain wood siding with paint or stain (or replace with noncombustible siding material).Install a Class A rated fire resistive roof of metal, asphalt shingle, or tile.Install 4” reflective address numbers on a contrasting background at the road, house and dock.Defensible Space is required 100 feet from all structures by California law (Public Resources Code Section 4291)
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