you have to excuse chris and carrie fawcett for being a bit obsessed about wildfire prevention. in 1981, not long after they bought their napa county home, there was a fire the day after they had cleared weeds from their property. >>>>my husband left when the hoses on the neighbor's property up front started to melt, and when he left, he said, i'm sorry, carrie, our house is gone. but it wasn't. so from that point on, for the last 40 years, 45 years, we've been fire hardening the property. every year we've done something. >>>>actually, they've pretty much done everything. their home has been stuccoed with all the plants removed near the structure. they have 6000 gallons of water in tanks feeding three pumps with fire hoses for each. there are instructions for firefighters and a turnaround at the top of their driveway, and the property has been completely cleared of any low lying vegetation that could send flames up into the trees. so when the 2017 atlas fire tore through their neighborhood, guess whose house was saved? >>>>and god bless them because they parked in my driveway, p

>>>>you have to excuse chris and carrie fawcett for being a bit obsessed about wildfire prevention.e. the day after they had cleared weeds from their property. >>>>my husband left when the hoses on the neighbor's property up front started to melt, and when he left, he said, i'm sorry, carrie, our house is gone. but it wasn't. so from that point on, for the last 40 years, 45 years, we've been fire hardening the property. every year we've done something. >>>>actually, they've pretty much done everything. their home has been stuccoed with all the plants removed near the structure. they have 6000 gallons of water in tanks feeding three pumps with fire hoses for each. there are instructions for firefighters and a turnaround at the top of their driveway, and the property has been completely cleared of any low lying vegetation that could send flames up into the trees. so when the 2017 atlas fire tore through their neighborhood, guess whose house was saved? >>>>and god bless them because they parked in my driveway, pulled on my property and said, we've nicknamed your house the clean house.

>>you have to excuse chris and carrie fawcett for being a bit obsessed about wildfire prevention.ty home, there was a fire the day after they had cleared weeds from their property. >>my husband left when the hoses on the neighbor's property up front started to melt, and when he left, he said, i'm sorry, carrie, our house is gone. but it wasn't. so from that point on, for the last 40 years, 45 years, we've been fire hardening the property. every year we've done something. >>actually, they've pretty much done everything. their home has been stuccoed with all the plants removed near the structure. they have 6000 gallons of water in tanks feeding three pumps with fire hoses for each. there are instructions for firefighters and a turnaround at the top of their driveway, and the property has been completely cleared of any low lying vegetation that could send flames up into the trees. so when the 2017 atlas fire tore through their neighborhood, guess whose house was saved? >>and god bless them because they parked in my driveway, pulled on my property and said, we've nicknamed your house