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In case of a fire, know your best escape routes and keep yourself, your family, and firefighters safe by maintaining a clean and lean landscape around your property’s exit routes.
- Keep vegetation around your exit routes pruned for clearance and hydrated for optimal plant health.
- Remove combustible materials such as jute door mats, wood planters and furniture, etc. from your exits.
- Remove dead plant material and debris from exit routes, and all plant material growing near doors and windows.
- Replace wood gates, arbors, or trellises near exit routes with metal.
- Have evacuation signs ready to post at home exits. These signs will inform fire personnel that you have left the property. Check with your local fire department for signs.