Who lives in a wildfire area?

[pixrthis]

Nationwide said I was in a wildfire risk and non-renewed. 2 fire station's within 2 miles and the Sacramento River 700 feet away.
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I don't think they want to be in the home insurance business anymore.

 

[PlanB]

Defensible space and boxed eves. Fire Dept won’t even waste their time on a place that isn’t defensible. I do agree though that getting water on the area before the fire gets there is a good idea.

I had to cut down a bunch of trees years ago after the FD said they wouldn't even try and save my house in a wildfire.

 

[socal0487]

I do but if the fire gets that close, I want my place to burn down.

Have a friend that owns a house in Ventura and when the Thomas fire happened a few years ago, all the houses in her neighborhood caught on fire except for hers and her next door neighbors who is a firefighter. He saved both of their houses. She wasn't too happy about it though because the house was uninhabitable for six months due to all the smoke and water damage. They had to get all the furniture replaced along with a lot of the drywall etc.. She would have rather it burned down to the ground.

Ask her how long the neighbors took to get back into their rebuilt house? The city was a mess and couldn’t handle all the permits which delayed many houses.

 

[Orange Juice]

Pretty sure nothing’s gonna burn around my house.

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I never thought Maui could burn, yet here we are.

 

[Tooms22]

PTSD huh? That term gets thrown around way to easy nowadays.
Let’s not cheapen that term.

Feel free to describe the trauma necessary to claim PTSD so we can all appropriately apply it.

I saw people change drastically after that fire wrecked our neighborhood. Is it because they were soft and couldn't handle life? Maybe, but I don't think anyone can argue that rushing out of your house as it's about to burn down isn't traumatic.