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La Habra Heights workshop urges home hardening, brush clearance and evacuation planning
Summary
Regional wildfire experts, local chiefs and residents met in La Habra Heights to review home-hardening steps, an accelerated brush-clearance program kicking off May 1, a multi-agency evacuation drill later this month, and tools such as the Genesys/Genesis zoning app to help residents prepare.
La Habra Heights officials and regional wildfire experts on Monday urged residents to harden homes, clear fuel around properties and finalize evacuation plans as the city accelerates its 2025 brush-clearance program.
Dante Cornejo, wildfire operations supervisor for My Safe LA, told the audience that home hardening and defensible space are the most effective ways to reduce structure loss. "The current recommendation is a 1 eighth inch mesh screen on your vents," he said, adding that "some insurers are requiring a more stringent... 1 sixteenth inch" and that finer screening reduces the size of embers able to enter attics.
The presentation outlined three defensible-space zones: zone 0 (0–5 feet from a structure), zone 1 (5–30 feet) and zone 2 (30–100 feet). "Zone 0 is actually a law that was passed in 2021," Cornejo noted, and he described practical measures including…
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