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Fwiw this is standard stuff here in Montana: the fire people will come out and survey your place (without being asked, they just show up) and tell you what you

Fwiw this is standard stuff here in Montana: the fire people will come out and survey your place (without being asked, they just show up) and tell you what you need to do for better fire protection.

jeffbee 3y ago
Which part is standard? I randomly zoomed into Helena and I see shrubs growing up the sides of houses and I don't see metal roofs. https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5947587,-112.0458768,3a,81.4y,265.7h,95.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szKd3D25ppwA1h-C_EvcZwA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5947587,-112.0458768,3a,81.4... My local FD in California certified my house annually during the decade I owned it despite the fact that it was surrounded by pines, mostly dead, some touching the house.
- twothamendment 3y ago
  People in the cities with "normal" yards are not thinking about wildfires, not being contacted about it. I think they were referring to people in the middle of nowhere, where yard work is more like forestry work. Every year I get some mail from the state about taking a class to learn how to manage my land/trees. It touches on healthy forests and fires. Areas more like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zPqNbX4142vobyMP7 https://maps.app.goo.gl/zPqNbX4142vobyMP7
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y ago
> without being asked, they just show up I know some parts of Montana where that would be...inadvisable.
- twothamendment 3y ago
  Nah, ya gotta be nice to those guys or they start a prescribed burn on the way out. But I know what you mean. There are some roads around me you don't go up unless you know someone there.
  - scruple 3y ago
    > There are some roads around me you don't go up unless you know someone there. In Appalachia we call 'em hollers.
    - trilbyglens 3y ago
      And in the rest of the world they call them "shitholes"
1letterunixname 3y ago
Expert feedback is a gift and unannounced inspections are the only useful kind. Also, there is lack of regular consistency in America when it comes to regulation of occupied properties.

Fwiw this is standard stuff here in Montana: the fire people will come out and survey your place (without being asked, they just show up) and tell you what you need to do for better fire protection.

jeffbee 3y ago

Which part is standard? I randomly zoomed into Helena and I see shrubs growing up the sides of houses and I don't see metal roofs. https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5947587,-112.0458768,3a,81.4y,265.7h,95.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szKd3D25ppwA1h-C_EvcZwA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5947587,-112.0458768,3a,81.4... My local FD in California certified my house annually during the decade I owned it despite the fact that it was surrounded by pines, mostly dead, some touching the house.

twothamendment 3y ago
People in the cities with "normal" yards are not thinking about wildfires, not being contacted about it. I think they were referring to people in the middle of nowhere, where yard work is more like forestry work. Every year I get some mail from the state about taking a class to learn how to manage my land/trees. It touches on healthy forests and fires. Areas more like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zPqNbX4142vobyMP7 https://maps.app.goo.gl/zPqNbX4142vobyMP7

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y ago

> without being asked, they just show up I know some parts of Montana where that would be...inadvisable.

twothamendment 3y ago
Nah, ya gotta be nice to those guys or they start a prescribed burn on the way out. But I know what you mean. There are some roads around me you don't go up unless you know someone there.
- scruple 3y ago
  > There are some roads around me you don't go up unless you know someone there. In Appalachia we call 'em hollers.
  - trilbyglens 3y ago
    And in the rest of the world they call them "shitholes"

1letterunixname 3y ago

Expert feedback is a gift and unannounced inspections are the only useful kind. Also, there is lack of regular consistency in America when it comes to regulation of occupied properties.