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Flagstaff fire team details treatments, home-hardening and insurance challenges; ISO rating could help lower premiums
Summary
Flagstaff Fire Department described engineering and prescribed fire work around the city, home-assessment tools and WUI code updates, and said aligning statewide mitigation standards with insurers and an improved ISO rating could affect premiums and development.
"Our risk isn't just drawn on a map or the line," Fire Captain Dylan Howe told the council as he described Flagstaff City's approach to wildfire risk reduction, which combines landscape treatments, home-level work and community education.
Howe and other fire officials walked the council through the "5 E's" of the city's strategy: enforcing science-based codes, engineering natural and built environments, improving emergency response, educating homeowners, and supporting economic incentives to scale mitigation. They showed before-and-after photos and video from prescribed burns and described mechanical…
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