Fire Wise Landscaping

If there's one thing we can count on every summer, it's fire. Each and every year we have fires crop up throughout the county. Most are small and burn only a few hundred square feet to an acre or so, but some are large and a few turn into a major fire incident and threatens structures and lives. As we start this topic, I ask you to take a few minutes and look around the outside of your home. What measures have you taken to mitigate the effects of fire? I remember as a young child our neighbor's house caught on fire. We lived in an urban subdivision and the houses were relatively close together...