Fire protection tips for lawns and gardens

Thank you for joining us up for today's Grow it Green. I am Jacqueline Thomas and today we are in Pawtuckaway State Park. And the New Hampshire State Parks celebrate its 90th anniversary this year. I'm talking to Katie Bosman from the Forest Protection Bureau. And I know when we get into these colder months, we start this season in which people prepare firewood and prepare for turning on the wood furnaces and things like that. How can we really remain safe in terms of these things? I know that people like to stack the wood next to the house so that they don't have to go that far, but that can be dangerous, right? Yes, that has the potential to be a fuel load in the house. And this fuel pollution can cause forest fires and a risk for your home. One of the things we recommend is inserting your firewood. Obviously we want it to stay dry. It is much easier to burn dry wood than wet. Place it in an animal shelter that is actually withdrawn from the house in this way. Yes, it's a little more on foot, but if you bring enough you can make your trips a little easier. However, this fuel pollution has the potential to be a risk to your home. So when we talk about forest fire reviews, reviews and willingness in the community, we look at various aspects in terms of fuels, even something as simple as pine needles as this, we call these mild striking fuels, pine needles, leaf loath, something like that. Because this can burn very easily, very quickly. And all that it can take is a simple embers from a fire. Even from her hot ashes, cleaning your wood oven, the hot ash, the throwing of garbage like this, it can take very quickly. It can spread very quickly. And we often see that. Last year we were lucky. Here in the state, but we had some fire that started the hot ash dumping. So if you clean your wood stove, you have the hot embers. If they do not fail completely, throw it outside, take the lighter throws and then spread very quickly. So make sure that this type of thing is cleaned up. Clean your gutters, clean your roofs, make sure that all these garbage is somehow removed as in our autumn cleaning. We have the leaves and ensure that this is brushed back, in an area that is not at home, is in the distance and brings the house to safety. ABSOLUTELY. And I know that sometimes things can accumulate on these roofs and these gutters. So really good memory there. When we come to the autumn season. But thanks. Great tips and way