When an evacuation is anticipated, follow this checklist if time allows. It will calm your mind and improve your homes chance to survive a wildfire.
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Be Personally Prepared for Wildfire
DEFENSIBLE SPACE SELF-EVALUATION
For Home/Property owner/Renter
The key to improving the odds of your house surviving a wildfire is the defendability of the structure itself!
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Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 4. FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS [4001 - 4958] ( Division 4 repealed and added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144. )
PART 2. PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS [4101 - 4789.7] ( Part 2 added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144. )
CHAPTER 3. Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands [4291 -
Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 4. FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS [4001 - 4958] ( Division 4 repealed and added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144. )
PART 2. PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS [4101 - 4789.7] ( Part 2 added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144. )
CHAPTER 3. Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands [4291 - 4299] ( Chapter 3 added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144. )
4295.5.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, including Section 4295, any person who owns, controls, operates, or maintains any electrical transmission or distribution line may traverse land as necessary, regardless of land ownership or express permission to traverse land from the landowner, after providing notice and an opportunity to be heard to the landowner, to prune trees to maintain clearances pursuant to Section 4293, and to abate, by pruning or removal, any hazardous, dead, rotten, diseased, or structurally defective live trees. The clearances obtained when the pruning is performed shall be at the full discretion of the person that owns, controls, operates, or maintains any electrical transmission or distribution line, but shall be no less than what is required in Section 4293. This section shall apply to both high fire threat districts, as determined by the California Public Utilities Commission pursuant to its rulemaking authority, and to state responsibility areas.
(b) Nothing in subdivision (a) shall exempt any person who owns, controls, operates, or maintains any electrical transmission or distribution line from liability for damages for the removal of vegetation that is not covered by any easement granted to him or her for the electrical transmission or distribution line.
(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 641, Sec. 9. (AB 2911) Effective January 1, 2019
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