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Sun City Texas Certified as a Firewise
Community:
On June 9th, the Emergency Management Committee
held a Firewise Town Hall Meeting. Some of us were not
available to attend the meeting so may not know what it means to be a
certified Firewise Community. Following is a description of the
responsibilities of a Firewise Community. You may also view the
Town Hall Meeting on the CA portal at www.sctxca.org/suncity.
Click on CA
Meetings on the front page.
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A FIREWISE COMMUNITY?
Protecting People Property and Natural resources from
Wildfire
Before a Fire
Starts
The Firewise Community emphasizes
community responsibility for planning and designing a safe community as
well as effective emergency response. It includes individual
responsibility for an environment around your home as well as the
Community through safer design, landscaping, and maintenance.
Provide residents
education on defensible space and landscaping
o Residents can keep
landscape vegetation low under
window
o Remove dead debris
from under and around
plants
o Keep gutters clear of
leaf litter
o Keep grasses mowed
regularly
The CA will work to reduce fuels in the
open areas around residences and
throughout the community
o Reduce fuels in Level
3 areas
o Remove dead wood and
prune dead wood from trees
o Remove cedars or prune
up from the group 5 to 6 feet
o Provide access routes
through and to large trace of open area for
fire apparatus
Sun City Texas is the largest HOA in Texas
to become a
CERTIFIED FIREWISE COMMUNITY
WATCH FOR INFORMATION FROM THE COMMUNITY
ASSOCIATION AND FIREWISE GROUP.
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