“If one home does everything right and the next-door neighbor does not, both homes still remain at risk.”
A California resident signed up for a new program to help protect their home from wildfires and was shocked at the work that was done to keep their home safe.
According to Fox 5 San Diego, a new pilot program under the Office of Emergency Services in partnership with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is offering grants to retrofit homes to be fire-resistant.
“I took a flyer, I saw a sign and I applied for it. I didn’t know what I was going to get,” said Chris Bilbray of Dulzura, a small town where the home became one of the first completed projects in the state. “The work that’s been done is work that probably would have taken me and my family 10-plus years to complete. … A lot of it I would have never even thought of to do to make my home safe.”…