Fire officials in Marin County are using voter-approved funds to create a fire break designed to protect the city of Novato.
NOVATO -- Saturday was recognized as national Wildfire Community Preparedness Day and fire officials in Marin County are using voter-approved funds to create a massive fire break designed to protect the city of Novato.
"If you've got heavy underbrush, then you're going to actually set your trees on fire," he said. "It's hard to get these trees to burn unless you've got a lot of junk under them." "All the landscape full of fuels that have accumulated over these many years of fire suppression can create a really intense fire behavior which can move embers up and into neighborhoods," said Anne Crealock, planning and program manager for the Marin Fire Prevention Authority.
"In some places -- in the Sierras -- we saw fires go from 150-foot-tall flames to 7-foot-tall flames," said Crealock. "And so, it really can make a big difference in what firefighters can do."
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