Wildfires: Youtube Video (7 minutes), Zone Zero: Are You Ready for Embers; Green Waste Days Begin June 6; Webinar: Firesmart Landscaping; FIRESafe Marin Youtube Channel
60-90% of homes are ignited by embers carried miles ahead of a fire. From FIRESafe Marin: Zone Zero. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAE3_TPRlLI&feature=youtu.be
FIRESafe Marin website is beautifully organized & informative: https://www.firesafemarin.org/preparedness. Website includes links to webinars, info about Fire Weather, Evacuations, Defensible Space/Hardening Your Home. Sign up for the FIRESafe Marin newsletter.
Fire resistant & fireprone plants. https://www.firesafemarin.org/plants
And: Green Waste Days June 6 & 20, July 11 & 25: Free disposal days at Nicasio Corp Yard, Saturdays, June 6 & 20; July 11 & 25, 9am-4pm. Info: 415-473-6717.
Webinar Registration: Living with Fire, Firesmart Landscaping (UC Master Gardeners): https://firesafemarin.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b50DehL3TSujfYZvffV0vQ
FIRESafe channel (lots of videos to pick from): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiD4JVMf9z7YiO2lj_f6uew?sub_confirmation=1
Sponsored by Marin County FD, West Marin Compost, FireSafe Marin.
Lynn, Coordinator, pointreyesdisastercouncil.org
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