Protection of forest fires: the five aspects of the preparation
70 classical music gives us the words: "She ran calling to forest fires "… .." Then a love song, but today, perhaps the beginning of an action / adventure / horror film. With a rainfall and low temperatures and strong winds, forest fires, who are currently battling across the country are heavily taxed our first assets respondents. More fires will surely continue if these conditions continue.
First response assets, these fires have affected the community populations local. Thousands of people evacuated, and many find nothing but charred wasteland on his return. What are some innovative ways to protect civilians, their property, and actually help firefighters in the process?
In households, most of us have smoke detectors. That's because in a fire in your home as a forest fire, where there's smoke, there FLAME:
Family – Something as a massive wildfire will affect the entire family. Prepare now.
Landscaping – Simple and subtle measures can make your property more fire resistant.
Awareness – In an emergency, time is crucial. Stay abreast of the threat and obtain early warning.
Humidity – Some say that Fight Fire With Fire. We say fight fire with water.
Evacuation – Even having taken all measures a forest fire is something best avoided.
Family
Prepared and family of all is much more capable of handling any type of disaster than those who wait for instructions Last minute. Therefore, one of the best things you can do for your family is to prepare one of the most common minimum and forgiveness of the enemy fire.
1. Take your family a tour of fire safety in the home. Locate hazards such as overloaded electrical outlets and safety features such as fire extinguishers fire and evacuation routes.
2. In urgent cases, redundancy is your friend. You must have more than one smoke alarm, fire extinguishers, and escape the room or house. Tip: If you're a heavy sleeper, you can buy a baby "monitor." Put the transmitter near the smoke detector and the farthest the receiver in your bedroom.
3. Make sure everyone in the family knows how to use a fire extinguisher, and how to call 911.
4. Practice drills fire. Let each family member have a turn to be the one who discovered the fire and has to warn others. At least in worldwide each other evacuation drill to the band in your hands and knees (during the year due to security) to reproduce the actual conditions of a fire escape.
5. Review all plans family emergency with your family during the fire season and especially if you are in your area and may be heading your way.
Planning Landscaping
Despite the tragedies, in general, take the initiative in the news, stories still abound about how some owners managed to protect your property from wildfires by simple and subtle changes, the gardens and house. Take these steps now, because in a fire, time is of the essence.
1. Its gardening main concern is to remove dead vegetation, dry, either on the ground or in trees, which can transfer heat to your home. Given that this aspect of the preparation of forest fires has been sufficiently covered by other, here are some good external sources:
General Tips for gardening wildfire: http://www.firewise.org/resources/files/wildfr2.pdf.
Florida Landscaping TRAIL pointers powder: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FR/FR07600.pdf.
More details on the gardening season of forest fires: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FR/FR04700.pdf.
fire-resistant plants: http://web1.msue.msu.edu/emergency/pubs/wildfire_resistant.pdf.
2. Be prepared to seal your home before evacuating. Make Covers for any openings in your home such as roof vents, turbine roof (can be covered with metal trash cans), the openings in the crawl space, Gather your documents etc (like plywood) and cut, paint, and label (Where is) each deck now, keeping them on their property for immediate use. Add a couple of hooks on every opening you can cover and drill the holes in the plywood covers. The brackets hold the cover in place while opening holes in the screw. This allows a person to do the job and frees others to do other necessary tasks. Tip: You make covers for your Windows (including Windows garage doors), like if you live in a hurricane zone.
3. Create a space for "fire" of the tool and include everything needed to prepare your home for advancing wildfire. garden store heating pipes, sprinklers, "Y" connectors for additional tubes, to mute gas, paper rolls high power (to cover the openings has not made the front pages of them), machetes and gloves last minute, brushing, etc. Additional tools the store because you have no time to replace the tools that could be broken or lost.
4. Make sure that first responders can see the address of your home. Put your house number on your mailbox, near the door, and painted on the pavement on your driveway.
Knowledge
A common theme in all our publications and presentations is the fact that in an emergency, our most critical time (see our other items www.disasterprep101.com). The two key elements of time in a forest fire is one, made as early as possible, and two, to obtain as soon as possible precaution.
1. Do not wait that a forest fire in the run to start the landscaping. Make and keep your property now fireproof as possible.
2. Do not wait for the smell of smoke to warn you a fire is underway. If fire conditions are right, follow the news channels and listen to the warnings of the community.
3. Learn the warning of the community. Does your community have a reverse 911 system? Sirens? Will local radio or television station alert? If your community does not have one of these systems, why not start in your neighborhood? At least have a telephone chain.
4. Buy a NOAA Alert Radio and incorporated in the global warning system emergency. You should also know who your local Ham Radio operators. View http://www.arrl.org.
Humidity
Water is the king of the fight against fire-extinguishing chemical fires. The best protection for your property lies in its ability to maintain a "dome" of moisture one way or another through and around your home.
1. A publication of the plants in "landscape" over the lists to maintain its positive moisture this entails. Whatever the type of plants in your garden, keep them well hydrated (following water orders).
2. When configuring your system irrigation, patio Give appropriate spray coverage, especially in areas that may exacerbate the fire like a propane tank or a deck above the ground attached to your home. Best of sprinklers in areas of the surface is the kind of professional guidance rather than the garden variety that only a lower ground spraying a small area. Your garden store representative can help.
3. Position sprinklers on the roof, making sure the anchor in strong winds force generated in some windstorm forest fires may be jumping on the roof.
4. If you have a system of watering the soil, excellent! It will cover water, even in the park and provide a good basis for the entire water system, you will need. To add your system different story "fire" power lines Water sprinkler or spray directly on your home or outside in the garden vegetation around your property. In addition, I have a permanently installed sprinkler line on the roof to save time to put hand sprinklers there. In addition, the installation of an inlet valve to allow additional water from a secondary source such as a water pump for your pool.
5. If you have a pool, pond, well or stream, you have a tank that must be taken not to remove the water firefighters municipal fire prevention need to approach your first property. It is a simple matter of keeping a gasoline generator (which should be autonomous families) and a pump water (like a pressure washer) and used both to extract water from the pool and feed the sprinklers. If you have a well with an electric pump, connect your generator to the pump to ensure its local operation to fail. Be careful when creating your generator to start their own fire.
6. A final consideration is the position of sprinklers. Cover the outside perimeter of your garden, spray on the exterior walls and roof of your house and cover the tops of the trees if possible. Also, remember applied externally oriented anchored in an elevated position as a platform or upstairs porch or roof.
Evacuation
We strongly recommend evacuation, even if you have taken all the steps above and believe they can work. It is preferable that you be pre-prepared and ready to go at any time from time is our greatest asset. The more you are ready to advance, the more time you have.
1. All stages of your landscaping needs to be supported and maintained now, especially during the fire season.
2. In wildfire-prone areas, especially during fire season, keep your kits and loan bugout the vehicle at any time (fuel tank head). Tip: With your documents, maintain non-emergency numbers for local authorities to enable call to find out when it is safe to return.
3. Make only landscaping last minute if time permits, because they want more time to complete the steps stop households. However, doing nothing until you have loaded your car with the provisions and nothing to the charge, but people and animals (in their companies and / or ready to go).
4. In the house of the following steps:
Move all flammable substances (such as furniture and curtains) away from windows, ensuring that each one is closed and locked. Low and close any metal blinds.
Leave your home Open the Registry of coverage, and close to the mantelpiece of the protection.
Close all interior doors, but not blocked.
Turn your heating and air conditioning, and cover full window conditioners air or heating vents with aluminum foil ground tape at home and abroad.
Turn on all gas entry into the house, either by subway or tank off the ground.
that the lights inside and outside of your property is in the thick smoke. The Firefighters may need to use it as a lighthouse.
5. To protect the values you do not have space for the disposal of your vehicle, consider the following:
For items worth waterproof, put them in a tub, storage, or garbage that has filled with water. (Note that we do not recommend swimming because it must used to feed the sprinklers.)
valuables such as large antique furniture, etc., must be performed in the center of the house on the lower ground (same where you want to go in a tornado).
large appliances such as oven, refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, washer, dryer, do not tend to be consumed by fire or crushed by debris, which would be the location of safe storage for other valuables. Tip: Disposable diapers are incredibly resistant to fire, and could be useful as a container for some items stored in one device.
6. Lock the house, leave a note on the door indicating that the authorities have evicted, check with neighbors to ensure their safety are, hop in your car and go. Tip: If the area is filled with smoke, listen to the radio for information on road closures, turn on the lights, and set its climate controls "recirculate" so you do not pull in smoke outside the vehicle.
Naturally, it is an article that could range from a few dozen more pages, because it is an important issue and certainly one in which it could offer many details. For now, what will be. The above information will be fireproof and prevent damage to your property? No, but it is very likely help, especially if you take these steps now. Given these measures also help at any time the fire of a forest fire is delayed or a house protected take another point of the shoulders of the first to respond. Preparation now be safe, and remember that preparation is not only a social responsibility, is the only real protection.
About the Author
Paul Purcell is a security analyst and preparedness consultant with InfoQuest in Atlanta, GA, and he’s also the author of “Disaster Prep 101.” For additional preparedness-related articles visit http://www.disasterprep101.com. Permission granted to reprint this article provided all portions remain intact. © 2007 Paul Purcell.
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