# Presentation: 118343

## Fire Prevention Tips - Smoking

- When smoking is permitted outdoors, safe practices require at least a 3 foot clearing around the smokers.
- Crush smokes dead out.
- In a vehicle, use your ashtray.
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## Fire Prevention Tips Off Highway Vehicles (OHV)

- Have an approved spark arrester or exhaust system.
- Do not park on dry grass, exhaust pipes and catalytic converters are sometimes glowing hot.
- Travel only on approved roads and trails.
- Know where you are permitted to drive.

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- No smoking while traveling, smoke only in designated areas.
- Follow all fire restrictions.
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## Fire Prevention Tips - Burning

- Take extra time to know the regulations for burning.
- Get a burning permit from your local fire agency
- Prepare a fire break around the burn area.
- Don’t burn on a windy day.
- Never leave any fire unattended.

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- In an emergency call 9-1-1 or
- 	Cellular # F-I-R-E.
- Don’t let your burn become a wildfire.
- Think before you strike.
- Know the local weather conditions.
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## Fire Prevention Tips - Campfires

- Keep camp and warming fires small.
- Build camp and warming fires away from overhanging branches, dry grass, steep slopes, logs and rotten stumps.
- Never leave a camp of warming fire unattended.
- Drown and stir the fire with water until dead out.

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- Camp and warming fires – just because there is no smoke doesn’t mean the fire is out.
- When finished with charcoal, dunk them.
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## Fire Prevention Tips - Equipment

- Spark arresters required on all internal combustion engines.
- Don’t park vehicles on dry grass or vegetation.
- Make sure vehicle undercarriage and engine compartment is clear of debris.
- Make sure the catalytic converter is functioning properly.

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- Operate equipment only where designated, check with local fire agencies.
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## Helpful Fire Cause and Origin Observation Tips

- Observation is key in helping local fire investigators determine cause and origin of human-caused fires. The following tips can assist the investigation process:

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- Contact local fire department or law enforcement agency with initial observation of suspicious activity.
- Make a detailed record of suspicious activity; take photographs of area, if possible.
- Record descriptions of any vehicles and license plate numbers in the surrounding area.

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- Record descriptions of individuals and their activities.
- Take good notes of observations. These notes can become critical in future investigation processes.
- Protect the area around the fire’s point of origin, if possible.
- Use good public relations and common sense. Don’t hesitate to make sure individuals know of fire restrictions and proper use of fires.
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## The Wildfire: 

**Beware **and** Prepare** to reduce the threat of wildfire to residents in the wildland urban interface zone.  This checklist will help you identify ways to reduce home and property wildfire hazards and to prepare your family and neighbors for the event of wildfire.
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## Wildfire Safety Precautions

- Home Construction
- Existing Home Protection
- Evacuation Plan

## Home Construction

- Build home on most level portion of lot.
- Roofs and exteriors should be of fire resistant materials
- Avoid cedar shakes and shingles.
- Screen eaves, attic and floor openings.  Avoid accumulation of flammable material.
- Screen the chimney and stove pipe.
- Remove site preparation debris.

## Existing Home Protection

- Reduce surrounding wildfire fuels, such as rotting logs, branches, brush and other flammable materials.
- Do exterior home inspection at least once a year before summer.
- Remove overhanging tree limbs, moss, and needles from roof and gutters.
- Clean chimneys and stove pipes; check their screens.

## Keep storage areas clean and tidy, never allow rages or newspaper to accumulate, and store flammable liquids in approved containers.
Maintain a survivable space around the house.  A large green lawn is ideal.
Remove highly flammable plants from around the house, especially on the side most exposed to prevailing winds, and the downside slope.
Remove nearby heavy ground vegetation and stumps.
Do not stack firewood against the house.

- Maintain a survivable space around the house.  A large green lawn is ideal.
- Remove highly flammable plants from around the house, especially on the side most exposed to prevailing winds, and the downside slope.
- Remove nearby heavy ground vegetation and stumps.
- Do not stack firewood against the house.

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## Wildfire Safety Precautions

- Develop control plans with family and neighbors.
- Have an adequate water supply.
- Pre-connect garden hose with nozzle and sprinkler system to access all structural exterior, including the roof.
- For a non-pressurized water system, have a large barrel of water and a five gallon bucket accessible.

## Evacuation Plan

- Develop a standard evacuation route.
- Establish an alert system alarm.
- Have an agreed upon meeting point for family members.
- Review your prized possessions in advance and consider storage in safety deposit boxes.
- Have a list of items to evacuate (important personal papers, photo albums, etc.)
- Know power and gas shut-off procedures.
- If you have an independent will, turn the sprinkler system on before leaving.
- Do not panic.