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Embers are the Real Threat to Burn Down a House
The fact that embers can travel more than a mile is terrifying. When embers hit a home, there are three likely locations that cause the most alarm: vegetation touching your home, vents with enough space for embers to enter your home, or dried vegetation that has built up in your gutters.
How to Digitize Your Photos Before a Fire Happens
Whether it is a house fire or flood, there are too many ways your physical photos can get destroyed. If you are like me, you have a few boxes tucked away in a corner somewhere full of photo albums, packs of duplicate Costco photos, and handed-down old family photos.
How to Talk with Your Children About a House Fire
About 120,000 homes are severely damaged every year in the US. Tragedy hits differently when you have kids. As parents, we spend huge amounts of energy protecting our kids and helping them navigate emotional growth. Losing your home to a fire is a complex set of emotional traumas.