Is your home is in a trust? Putting your home into a Revocable Trust is an estate planning best practice. One of the many challenges in the spotlight since the recent LA wildfires are problems people are having because their destroyed home was held in a trust but the trust wasn’t named on their insurance […]
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Our Calabasas Firewise Website is filled with important information and resources you need to protect your home and family. The Calabasas Firewise website was created in conjunction with Emergency Preparedness in Calabasas Fire Safe Council (EPIC-FSC), and the City of Calabasas. It is an informational and educational resource for the residents of Calabasas. We execute
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Welcome: We are excited to welcome the residents of Calabasas to our first Calabasas Firewise website. We will be sending out an informative monthly newsletter, sent to you from Calabasas Firewise, Emergency Preparedness in Calabasas Fire Safe Council (EPIC-FSC), and the City of Calabasas, which will be filled with important information on how you can
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Ready! Set! Go! Calabasas is one of the most beautiful places to live, but living in a “wildland-urban interface” (WUI) area does come with risks. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) and partnering agencies stand ready to respond, but preparation and prevention play a big part in keeping you and your loved ones safe
This recent disturbing graph from CAL FIRE, clearly emphasizes that it is not so much the number of fires that have increased over the past year, but the size and severity of the fires that is most concerning. Our homes have become the number one source of fuel for wildfires. COMMUNITY WILDFIRE RISK ASSESSMENTS Calabasas
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The U.S. has witnessed a steady increase in wildfire activity over the past decade, and experts predict this trend will continue. Despite spending billions of dollars per year to support wildland fire suppression efforts, the number of homes lost in wildfires per year has increased exponentially. Wildfires now cost the US hundreds of billions per
Home insurance shopping? Has your insurer dropped you? In June 2024 Amy Bach, Esq., Co-founder and Executive Director of United Policyholders, addressed the current home insurance status and important actions homeowners should be taking today. Current Rules: Insurer must give 75 days notice if they won’t be offering you a new policy when your current
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Firewise was developed by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and is a cooperative effort among local, state, federal and private agencies and organizations to promote fire safety in the wildland/urban interface. Firefighters do not have the resources to defend every home during a wildfire. Firewise communities are those that have taken appropriate measures to
The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains Community Resilience team, with a grant from CAL FIRE, created a series of videos to help communities become more wildfire-resilient. The videos cover wildfire preparedness, fire ecology and how-to’s for home-hardening and defensible space! LINKS TO GREAT EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS: (Click on the links below) Home Hardening
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The Park Fire in Northern California was California’s 4th-largest wildfire on record. This record is sobering but doesn’t capture the enormous amount of hard work done by the over 5,500 firefighters and first responders on the frontlines, or the overall impact of the fire on people and property. Measuring the size of a wildfire is
