Communities Urged to Embrace Fire Protection; After Wildfires of 2000, Feds Make It Priority
The Columbian › August 02, 2006
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MONUMENT, Colo. Jean Rodeck looks at her neatly groomed yard, her expertly thinned forest and the five firebreaks cut into the nearby hill and knows she could still lose everything to a wildfire.
Despite pumping hundreds of hours and a considerable amount of money into work to reduce her home's vulnerability to wildfire, Rodeck's home in the foothills northwest of Colorado Springs remains in danger because many of her neighbors have not taken such precautions.See the full content of this document
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Communities Urged to Embrace Fire Protection; After Wildfires of 2000, Feds Make It Priority
"I know if there's a fire, that I'm just in this little mitigated island of 2 acres," said the 72-year-old Rodeck, who retired after 42 years with the Nation...
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