As the winds blew on another critical fire weather day, agencies across the metro were making sure homeowners stay ready as part of Wildfire Community Preparedness Day
"We need to have people get ready and prepared for wildfire. And generally, we're finding residents are not well prepared," Cindy Latham, founder and chair of Rotary Wildfire Ready, said."We're trying to help people understand what they can do on their own property to create defensible space and harden their home," Latham said."Our first responders can only do so much, so we have to help," she said.
"That's on my list," Melinda Cain Widener said."My husband is going to help me [with] that. He may not know it yet, but he's going to." "It's going to be a process, but I think that the latest concerns and the emergency wind issue that's going on now will kind of make us move a little bit quicker in a direction," she said.
"We're looking for broken cross arms, trees that are too close to the lines or anything like that that is a hazard. We want to be able to identify and track those issues very, very quickly," Michael Kaine, district manager of the Conifer office, said.