At our 2025 Annual Meeting, our keynote speaker, Berkeley’s Assistant Fire Chief Colin Arnold shared with us how to make our homes and neighborhoods more wildfire safe. No longer based on theories, research has identified specific actions people and communities can take. “When you examine why some homes survive a wildfire, it may appear random but in most cases it’s not,” said Chief Arnold, who runs Berkeley’s wildland-urban interface division, during a 2024 webinar. “Homes that are hardened and have adequate separation from one another and have fire-resistive landscaping, especially in that first five feet around structures, are much more likely to survive.” Below is the presentation he shared with us at our event.
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