As the Tri-Cities move into wildfire season, firefighters are urging owners to make their houses safer.
Kennewick firefighters are bringing those records directly to some of the people most at risk of losing their houses in a wildfire.
“We need to get that fact out. We can’t cross around and ease everybody’s homes, so we’re looking to maximize as many resources as we can, and the homeowner is a useful resource,” Kennewick Fire Capt. Brian Ellis stated. “If absolutely everyone can deal with their belongings, and their neighbor takes care of theirs, it simply builds on itself to where you’ve got entire neighborhoods that can be blanketed.”
More than 20 firefighters will be going door to door in numerous south Kennewick neighborhoods to share information about ways to prepare for wildfire season. The regions encompass Canyon Lakes and Inspiration Estates, which have been the 2 neighborhoods hit the hardest with the aid of the Boer Canyonfire.
The August 2018 wind-pushed blaze burned 5,000 acres, destroyed 5 homes, and damaged 3 others. Coming after the blaze, city officials adopted the Firewise software from the National Fire Protection Association. The program provides approaches people can use to shield their domestic animals places at the border of wildlands.
