- Outfit your property with fire extinguishers and work up a neighborhood wildfire.
Know where to get emergency information (usually radio or television).
- When wildfire threatens: clear all foliage within 100 feet of your structure; keep your vehicle parked in the open, facing the direction you would evacuate – and know where the keys are at all times.
- Much of your structure fire plan will be applicable, like the two or more escape routes from each room. Know your plan, and use it.
- As evacuation grows more likely; close windows, vents and doors, turn off gas at main as well as pilot lights and propane tanks.
- If you have a fireplace, open the damper and close the screens; move furniture to the center of the structure; wear long-sleeved shirts and long-legged pants and have a wet kerchief available to cover your face.
- If time permits as you leave, wet any shrubs within 15 feet of the home. This is not just to protect the shrubs; since they will kindle before the home, they increase the risk to the structure.
- Know where to meet to count heads; your wildfire plan’s provision should be much farther away than the one in your structure fire.
- Since a wildfire is more likely to take on community proportions than a structure fire, have an out-of-town contact whom all family members who are not together will call.
- Just as you never go back into a burning building, do not return to the evacuated area until authorities tell you it is safe to do so.
