Are you prepared for a fire?

 Owning a home is one of your best assets and you don't want that to go up in smoke!  With all the wildfires going on up north, now is the time to make sure your home is safe.  Here's some tips~

1.  Make sure you don't have any trees touching your home.  Having flower beds and a lawn around your home provides a protection.

2.  Make sure any dead fallen trees or dead grass around your home is gone.  Cheat grass is the worse.  Once dead it spreads a fire quickly.

3.  Are your trees around home trimmed up from touching the ground?  By trimming the lower branches, fire has a harder time spreading to the canopy?

4.  Do you have a deck or porch?  Do not stack firewood under or by house.  Have it away from home. This also keeps rodents away from home too.

5.  Clean your wood stove pipe.  When cleaning out the ashes, DO NOT put ashes in plastic bucket on your porch.  Ashes need to go in a metal container and put far away from the house.

6.  Clean your gutters, have a metal roof, an install lightening rods.

Are you in need of help?  Contact Steve Underwood, with Underwood Forestry at 970-570-9800