Spring time yard attention. 

-Create a “LEAN, CLEAN and GREEN ZONE” by removing all flammable vegetation within 30 feet immediately surrounding your home

-Create a “REDUCED FUEL ZONE” in the remaining 70 feet, or to your property line.

-Landscape with fire resistant plants

-When clearing vegetation, use care when operating equipment such as lawnmowers. One small spark caused by the blade hitting a rock can start a big fire. A string trimmer is much safer. If you must mow, do so only in the morning when temperatures are low, the air is still, and the fuel is still damp with dew.

-Remove all stacks of construction materials, pine needles, leaves, and other debris from your yard

The time changes on 11 March 2012. As a general rule, you should change your batteries in your smoke alarms.

-Replace the batteries in your smoke alarms

-Test your smoke alarms

-Know your escape routes from your home

-Have at least two escape routes from a room and from your home

-Have a location where family member can meet away from the house/apartment

-Practice fire drills

-Practice fire safety everyday in the home and in the “Great Outdoors”

Spark Arrester Safety

-It's that time of year when we head to the “hills” to enjoy nature and get away from the heat and city life.

-Check to make sure your ATV has a working spark arrester

-Check your chainsaw for a working spark arrester

-Check your generator to make sure it has a working spark arrester, and make sure you operate your generator is in an area that is cleared of flammable material

Are you thinking about spring and cleaning up the yard? Now would be a good time to check your gas powered equipment.

-Spark arrester in working order?

-Debris removed from around the engine?

-Bearings greased?