Sonoma County officials say only half of the rural properties they inspected are ready for fires season. Is your property fire safe?
Sonoma County is inspecting homes and properties to make sure that owners have cleared weeds and cut overgrown grass on their lots. This is the first time the county is doing “Defensible Space Inspections” to make sure that firefighters can best protect homes from wildfires. Sonoma County Fire Chief James Marshall told the board of supervisors on Tuesday that about half of the properties inspected by officials so far are out of compliance with the county’s regulations and are not fire safe. KRCB’s Adia White took a walk through one neighborhood with James Marshall when inspections first started in June. She has more on what “out of compliance” looks like.
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