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Washington s Department of Natural Resources is working with homeowners to reduce their exposure to wildfires.
The Wildfire Ready Neighbors program is sending fire experts to rural areas to talk about specific ways property owners can make their homes safer. I had a fire expert come to my place, northwest of Spokane. It s a classic eastern Washington landscape, open dry grass meadows with small stands of ponderosa pines. The fire danger has always been here but has become more worrisome in recent years.
The Wildfire Ready Neighbors program sent former Fire District 5 Commissioner Bonnie Cobb. Cobb walked around my property and made specific suggestions about how to make sure if a fire comes to my area, it doesn t spread to my home. First, she examined the immediate zone closest to my house.