Making Ready for Wildfires
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The greater Sonora, Twain Harte area of the Sierra's is at greatest risk for wildfires during the summer months. The fact is you can literally wake up in the morning to a perfectly blue sky in the foothills (as most often is the case) only to find those same skies black with smoke at a moment's notice. One of the greatest catastrophes in California history took place in the Mother Lode when lightning sparked the Stanislaus complex fire in 1987. It was the perfect storm with so many blazes starting at the same time combined with an outdated approach to fighting wildfires. When it was over 147,000 acres had burned. Some of the locals tell me that only a miracle saved Tuolumne City as the wind shifted to turn the flames away from the town. So what would you do if a fire were to strike? Are you ready to evacuate if need be? Do you have a game plan? Have you taken the time to prepare/think it through? It's a good exercise to look ahead to potential disasters and be ready for them. What you do now in preparation just might save your life and the lives of others if the unthinkable should happen. For links on how to be ready for wildfires, click HERE. For a picture of firefighters preparing to cut a fire break near Pine Mountain Lake during the Stanislaus complex fire (and more), click HERE. (Choose Wildland Fires link at bottom, then scroll right to fifth picture.)
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