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Avoid a Hot Mess. How To Avoid Home and Business Fire Damage During Wild Fire Season.

7/14/2018 (Permalink)

Wild fire season brings home and business fires every year. SERVPRO of Yorba Linda/Brea has restored homes and businesses for 15 years. 714-701-0207

Want to avoid a hot mess?  Focus on preventing fires in your Orange, California home or business.  Here’s a few ways, thanks to your friends at SERVPRO of Yorba Linda/ Brea.

Fire Prevention Before Wild Fire Season

Southern California communities such as Yorba Linda, Orange, Brea, Fullerton, Garden Grove, and Anaheim have a very predictable annual weather cycle.  Each year begins mid-way through the annual rainy season.  Spring ushers in a greening of our usually yellow and brown hillsides as wild flowers and tall grasses shoot up.  By late spring and through the fall, we’re already into our drought season which, unfortunately brings our annual Santa Ana winds and wild fires.   The cycle is so regular,  you can almost set your watch by it!  Since it is so predictable,  long-time Southern Californians have acquired a set of proven defense tactics to protect their homes from these fires.  Some of these follow:

Yard and Garden Related Tips

  • Remove combustible vegetation from around any structure, according to local ordinances. Thin out continuous tree and brush cover and remove dead limbs, fallen trees, leaves, twigs, and pine cones.
  • Prune tree branches to 10 feet above the ground and remove leaves and twigs from beneath trees, in the yard, on roofs, patios, and landscaped shrubs.
  • Mow tall grass and keep it to a maximum height of two inches.
  • Do not use highly flammable landscaping near structures, such as bark or wood chip mulch.
  • Stack firewood uphill at least 15 feet from a house. Fire risks increase when wooden decks, patios, and woodpiles are placed close to structures.
  • Inspect and clean chimneys regularly. Equip chimneys for wood burning units with spark arresters.
  • Avoid all outdoor burning.
  • Prevent mishaps with outdoor cooking grills by carefully maintaining the grill and using caution during grill use.

Roofs and Walls

  • Roofs and walls made of untreated flammable materials, such as wood shakes and shingles are practically begging for a fire. Embers from fires can easily be wind-blown to ignite these dry and flammable roofs.    It’s far better to replace these with asphalt shingles, metal, slate, or tile.  If the cost of doing that is too high, home or business owners can still protect their property by either treating their wooden roofs with fire retardant, or installing a rooftop sprinkler system.
  • Clean roof and gutters to prevent buildup of debris.
  • Just like the roof, other parts of the house can be protected from embers by covering any exterior vent openings with ?-inch hardware cloth.

Windows

The high temperatures fires create can literally melt skylights and even cause windows to burst.  Cautious home and business owners can guard their property by installing double-paned and tempered glass. 

Count on SERVPRO of Yorba Linda/ Brea 

A fire is a terrible thing to experience in your home or business.  As diligent as many people are, fires still occur.  These are times when you’ll be glad to have an insurance company behind you and a professional, experienced, certified fire restoration company in front of you, working quickly to help you get back to ‘live as normal’.  For over fifteen years, SERVPRO of Yorba Linda/ Brea has been helping our clients get on with their lives – "Like it never even happened."   You can learn more about what our customers have had to say about us when you visit our Yelp page, https://www.yelp.com/biz/SERVPRO-of-yorba-linda-brea-anaheim.  Need immediate help?  Call us at 714-701-0207.  You’ll be glad you did!

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