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If a Wildfire Approaches

1. Tune in Emergency Alert System on any local radio or TV Station.

2. Park vehicles in garage facing outward. Put keys, valuables, important documents and essentials, such as medications, in your vehicle. Disconnect garage door opener by pulling knob hanging from drive

track. (Power may be off when you have to leave.) Manually close garage door. Leave your vehicle motor off.

3. Place pets in a pet carrier or pet cage. They will become frightened quickly, and may run away or become uncontrollable.

4. Close shutters, windows, heavy drapes, Interior doors and fireplace damper.

5. Remove thin drapes, furniture and other combustibles near windows. Heat from fire outside of a window can ignite combustible items inside the house.

6. Move all flammable deck furniture and plastic garbage, recycle and greenwaste bins away from house or into garage. They might be ignited by

raining embers from the fire. A recycling bin full of paper alongside a house could become a torch, which would ignite the structure.

7. If you have a ladder, place it up to roof. The fire personnel will use yours rather than take time to unload their own if there are multiple house fires.

8. Turn on outside lights and leave some inside lights on. In Cambria, fire personnel might overlook houses in the forest at night if they cannot see them.

9. Wear cotton clothes to protect you from burns and falling embers: and a dry bandana for your face. Synthetic clothes can catch fire from flames and embers. Cotton does not ignite as easily. Wear enclosed shoes to protect your feet.