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How to Have a Firewise Home
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The program provides homeowners with information on risk factors concerning the wildland/urban interface and research about why homes may or may not burn when threatened by a wildfire. 
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Features Include:
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Presentation videos with examples of WUI factors

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Interactive Firewise Home activity
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Tools and resources for participants to share with neighbors
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Building and landscaping checklists for reducing wildfire damage risk
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ENGAGING VIDEOS
Videos about WUI risks and what the research says about why homes burn provide talking points for presentations as participants begin to see that protecting their communities from wildfire is a shared responsibility.

Video Sample
Watch a video presentation from How to Have a Firewise Home.


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INTERACTIVE HOME ACTIVITY
Participants interact with a virtual home that is not Firewise. This reinforces the material they have learned about wildfire risk and steps to take to lessen that risk.

REFERENCE MATERIALS
Checklists and reference materials offer handy tools for participants to begin making their homes and communities safer from wildfire.

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Click here to see an example of a landscaping checklist.




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WORKSHOPS
ITM provides homeowner workshops in wildland/urban interface areas where homeowners learn cost effective ways to protect homes and communities from wildland fires.  Participants leave the workshop with the tools and information that will help them protect lives and property if a wildland fire strikes. 

Click here to register for a workshop in your area.






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Interactive Training Media, Inc. • 2625 Mitcham Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32308
(toll free phone) 1-866-INFO-ITM • (phone) 850.877.5865 • (fax) 850.877.7936