PARADISE, Calif. — The letter from the insurance company arrived just before Brian and Morgan Gobba finally finished construction on their new house: Their homeowner’s policy was being canceled. The ...

Signs of springtime are in the air even though snow is still on the ground and spring cleaning inside and outside is typical for Tahoe. That means getting homes ready for the summer by creating or ...

Internal investigations sit at the center of modern whistleblowing and compliance programs. This five-part series explores what makes investigations defensible in practice, covering consistency and ...

PARADISE — Officials from Cal Fire and other organizations finished off Wildfire Preparedness Week in Paradise Friday, emphasizing home hardening and defensible space as important ways to keep homes ...

SPREAD QUICKLY. ANDREA: HOMEOWNERS IN EL DORADO COUNTY ARE WORKING HARD TO CLEAR DEFENSIBLE SPACE. GULSTAN: MELANIE WINGO IS VELI IN POLLOCK PINES. THEY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. >> FOR SURE. THEY ...

AUBURN — Defensible space, otherwise known as the bugger between a building or home and the landscape, has long been proved to be a key proactive measure that homeowners can take to prevent fire from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A live-fire demonstration showed even on a cloudy and drizzly Oregon day how defensible space and home hardening can protect ...

According to Cal Fire, "Defensible space is the buffer between your structure and the surrounding area." The space acts as a barrier to stutter the progress of a fire near a property and help ensure ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – The City of South Lake Tahoe is working to stay ahead of increasing wildfire concerns. “I personally feel that the Caldor Fire was a warning,” Fire Marshal Kim George said ...

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